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As a late millenial and college dropout, I have considered attending college part time, and I have enrolled in online degrees a few times. But I lose motivation
by mkl95 3y ago
As a late millenial and college dropout, I have considered attending college part time, and I have enrolled in online degrees a few times. But I lose motivation every time, because every uni system seems to be stuck in the 2000s, and I have a better job than all my friends with degrees anyway. If I found the uni experience remotely enjoyable, I would surely pursue a degree.
- blowski 3y agoOnline degrees seem to focus on teaching materials that are cheap to obtain elsewhere. Instead, I’d like to have seminars led by someone qualified, but I guess the numbers don’t add up for this.
- mkl95 3y agoThis lines up with my experience. In my case, the teaching materials were some PDFs with the typical content recycled from old textbooks. The price tag was hefty, which made it feel like a scam.
- quickthrower2 3y agoI can't imagine what it is like doing a degree these days in say CS, when the wealth of information on Youtube is incredible, and you can self-pace and learn interesting stuff. Postgrad would still be a different story.
- komali2 3y agoI find youtube content to be very lowest common denominator and just a difficult form to learn from. There's open source comp sci curriculum that compile various MooCs and free college courses though that I thought was phenomenal: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
- xboxnolifes 3y agoI agree that Youtube is very low quality (or non-existent) for most CS topics. I used Youtube (and other sources) often went I studied CS in college, but it was a constant search for the source that covered concepts relevant to what I was studying. Youtube has a plethora of videos on introductory CS concepts, things that would be covered in the first 2-3 courses. After that, it's still very much a desert.