"If I ever wanted to apply for a job in IT, do you think that a series of “Coursera” courses would be an acceptable skill-set?" No, never, a course is not a sk

"If I ever wanted to apply for a job in IT, do you think that a series of “Coursera” courses would be an acceptable skill-set?" No, never, a course is not a skill set in IT. Also, it seems to me you are Greek, I lived some time in Thessalonica, US, and other places, I was born in Spain. Those places(Greece, Italy, Spain, even Germany) have title-itis, but is different in other places in the world. In the US they don't care what is your title if you can do something, most of IT is in the US. BUT, you can start a real project, using the "Coursera" courses to COMPLETE it. Then you could basically work whenever you want in IT, given that you have a real proof that you could use the knowledge. Active learning is very different form passive learning. In the Universities where I studied they forced you to do active learning via practices and so on.