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Why are we giving credit to this click-bait PR stunt for Platzi? Let me quickly sum this up. We have a guy who works for a tiny online training company that p

by steego 12y ago

Why are we giving credit to this click-bait PR stunt for Platzi? Let me quickly sum this up. We have a guy who works for a tiny online training company that provides a whopping 7 classes talking about how online vocational training is going to make traditional college irrelevant. One of the largest online vocational trainers, PluralSight has 1300+ classes online, and you don't hear them spouting nonsense about not saving money to send their kids to college. The don't spout that nonsense, because they understand their training supplements a CS degree. It's designed to provide professionals with timely knowledge after they get their meat and potatoes from the university. Can we replace our university education with something more affordable and accessible? While I hope we do, it's not immediately clear how that's going to happen. There's a lot of vague hand-wavy ideas, but nobody has really pulled off creating an alternative education program that's earned industry respect. Certainly not Platzi, and based on what I've seen so far, their curriculum seems to be designed to appeal to students rather than people hiring. I too am tired of universities jacking up prices so they can build extravagant and academically useless facilities and pay for extravagant salaries for administrators and football coaches while giving actual educators the shaft. While I hope that happens, let's not start gambling our kids' education funds based on the insightless advice of a guy who literally has a financial conflict of interest on the subject. Don't feed the trolls, especially the PR variety.

PeterWhittaker 12y ago
Have you considered flagging the article because of this? dang may (or may not :->) agree with you.
- steego 12y ago
  No. I want to retract my accusation. I just think it's a bad opinion post clouded by the poster's desire for a world where online education will replace offline institutions without clarifying how or providing current examples.
  - PeterWhittaker 12y ago
    Oh, OK. You could edit the post with that information.... Good on you either way.
freddier 12y ago
Wow. We were mentioned in 6 bytes, steego. At Platzi, we just launched in English. We've been doing this for the Spanish-speaking world for two years (switch from EN to ES in the header to check it out), with more than "7 classes". I understand why you might think what you do, but you seemed to infer A LOT from a single link the author gave to us. Without that link, would you think differently about the article?
- steego 12y ago
  Sorry about that. Click-bait PR stunt was too strong. (I'd edit my post if I could). I really do think it's an honest opinion, but it's a vague opinion of somebody who's hopeful of the success of their company. Without the link, I'd still think the opinion of the article is vaguely hopeful and a little reckless with the whole "I'm not saving for my kids education" because online education will magically replace our expensive offline education system.

by steego 12y ago

PeterWhittaker 12y ago

Have you considered flagging the article because of this? dang may (or may not :->) agree with you.

steego 12y ago
No. I want to retract my accusation. I just think it's a bad opinion post clouded by the poster's desire for a world where online education will replace offline institutions without clarifying how or providing current examples.
- PeterWhittaker 12y ago
  Oh, OK. You could edit the post with that information.... Good on you either way.

freddier 12y ago

Wow. We were mentioned in 6 bytes, steego. At Platzi, we just launched in English. We've been doing this for the Spanish-speaking world for two years (switch from EN to ES in the header to check it out), with more than "7 classes". I understand why you might think what you do, but you seemed to infer A LOT from a single link the author gave to us. Without that link, would you think differently about the article?

steego 12y ago
Sorry about that. Click-bait PR stunt was too strong. (I'd edit my post if I could). I really do think it's an honest opinion, but it's a vague opinion of somebody who's hopeful of the success of their company. Without the link, I'd still think the opinion of the article is vaguely hopeful and a little reckless with the whole "I'm not saving for my kids education" because online education will magically replace our expensive offline education system.