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Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Skills, Not Diplomas

62 points by freddier 12y ago

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freddier 12y ago
Hey guys, I'm one of the founders of Platzi. We've done classes with RethinkDB, YC partners, Sails.js/Treeline and Product Hunt. They're all free right now and will be for a while. I'm happy to answer any questions.
- morenoh149 12y ago
  hey I remember seeing you at noisebridge.net glad to see the company is doing well.
  - freddier 12y ago
    Awesome! I remember you too. Well, this is why we've been so busy.
- jhonovich 12y ago
  Do you have to pay for any of the classes? TC talks about revenue but when I logged in, it seems everything is free. Am I missing something?
  - freddier 12y ago
    We started in Latinamerica and we do a subscription model. $29/month for access to everything. We have more complete courses, 2 weeks long, about design, marketing and programming. We're right now planning the first english course. Which one would you like?
- quilgor 12y ago
  Any idea when the rethinkdb class will be available? I was tied up last weekend when it came out and would really like to check it out.
  - freddier 12y ago
    We had to resync the videos, but Monday afternoon, they'll be ready at https://courses.platzi.com/classes/rethinkdb-databases/ https://courses.platzi.com/classes/rethinkdb-databases/
- simonebrunozzi 12y ago
  Do you know Cloudacademy.com / Codecademy.com / Teamtreehouse.com ? How would you compare with them?
  - freddier 12y ago
    I didn't know cloudacademy, cool. We have livestreamed classes with industry pros. Among them, that I mentioned on the parent comment. There's a lot of real-time collaboration among students, like shared notes, questions and files. But really, the live classes, those are our best feature.
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  - mikermcneil 12y ago
    CodeAcademy is a great way to build up some coding chops, but it doesn't give you the confidence that you'd get from hearing personal advice from the creator of a technology. CodeAcademy is GarageBand, Platzi is MTV
- tomjen3 12y ago
  Why can't you both teach me useful skills and certify that I learned them? Make the certification optional, for an extra fee.
shk 12y ago
I loved the startup class and sails js lectures. Looking forward to more in the future.
spiritplumber 12y ago
I wonder if MOOCs will reduce credentialism, or strengthen its grip... (If I hear "You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper" one more time, I'm getting the shark launcher)
- freddier 12y ago
  In the tech industry (design, marketing, programming) we're seeing that companies don't care about credentials when they see an awesome portfolio. Google VP of People Ops said they no longer care about GPAs [1] On the other hand, one of our students from Spain managed to convince his university to validate one of our courses as credits. So I don't know. But the trend is towards projects > diplomas. (However, for papers, that's gonna take a while) [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-ho...
  - spiritplumber 12y ago
    That's awesome news!
  - mikermcneil 12y ago
    yeah that's truly incredible. If I'd spent the first two years of my university education learning from a tool like Platzi, I'd be in an incredible place. Can't wait for @freddier to redo the badass "intro to programming course" in English so I can show it to a few folks I know who struggled to adapt to formal CS education
- yid 12y ago
  > You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper I'm going to go out on a limb and say that either you're in a very archaic field or institution, or that your PI is not a nice person. In the US at least, even undergraduates are routinely first authors on papers where they did the majority of work.
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62 points by freddier 12y ago

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Hey guys, I'm one of the founders of Platzi. We've done classes with RethinkDB, YC partners, Sails.js/Treeline and Product Hunt. They're all free right now and will be for a while. I'm happy to answer any questions.

morenoh149 12y ago
hey I remember seeing you at noisebridge.net glad to see the company is doing well.
- freddier 12y ago
  Awesome! I remember you too. Well, this is why we've been so busy.
jhonovich 12y ago
Do you have to pay for any of the classes? TC talks about revenue but when I logged in, it seems everything is free. Am I missing something?
- freddier 12y ago
  We started in Latinamerica and we do a subscription model. $29/month for access to everything. We have more complete courses, 2 weeks long, about design, marketing and programming. We're right now planning the first english course. Which one would you like?
quilgor 12y ago
Any idea when the rethinkdb class will be available? I was tied up last weekend when it came out and would really like to check it out.
- freddier 12y ago
  We had to resync the videos, but Monday afternoon, they'll be ready at https://courses.platzi.com/classes/rethinkdb-databases/ https://courses.platzi.com/classes/rethinkdb-databases/
simonebrunozzi 12y ago
Do you know Cloudacademy.com / Codecademy.com / Teamtreehouse.com ? How would you compare with them?
- freddier 12y ago
  I didn't know cloudacademy, cool. We have livestreamed classes with industry pros. Among them, that I mentioned on the parent comment. There's a lot of real-time collaboration among students, like shared notes, questions and files. But really, the live classes, those are our best feature.
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- mikermcneil 12y ago
  CodeAcademy is a great way to build up some coding chops, but it doesn't give you the confidence that you'd get from hearing personal advice from the creator of a technology. CodeAcademy is GarageBand, Platzi is MTV
tomjen3 12y ago
Why can't you both teach me useful skills and certify that I learned them? Make the certification optional, for an extra fee.

shk 12y ago

I loved the startup class and sails js lectures. Looking forward to more in the future.

spiritplumber 12y ago

I wonder if MOOCs will reduce credentialism, or strengthen its grip... (If I hear "You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper" one more time, I'm getting the shark launcher)

freddier 12y ago
In the tech industry (design, marketing, programming) we're seeing that companies don't care about credentials when they see an awesome portfolio. Google VP of People Ops said they no longer care about GPAs [1] On the other hand, one of our students from Spain managed to convince his university to validate one of our courses as credits. So I don't know. But the trend is towards projects > diplomas. (However, for papers, that's gonna take a while) [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-ho...
- spiritplumber 12y ago
  That's awesome news!
- mikermcneil 12y ago
  yeah that's truly incredible. If I'd spent the first two years of my university education learning from a tool like Platzi, I'd be in an incredible place. Can't wait for @freddier to redo the badass "intro to programming course" in English so I can show it to a few folks I know who struggled to adapt to formal CS education
yid 12y ago
> You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper I'm going to go out on a limb and say that either you're in a very archaic field or institution, or that your PI is not a nice person. In the US at least, even undergraduates are routinely first authors on papers where they did the majority of work.
- spiritplumber 12y ago

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