by Dwayne Phillips I complete yet another certificate program. This time it is in Data Science and from Microsoft and EdX. I just finished the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science. This took about 12 weeks and cost me about $500. The Good: I learned… cool tricks with MS Excel how to write SQL queries […]
Entries Tagged as 'MOOC'
Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science
October 24th, 2016 · No Comments
Tags: Certification · Education · Learning · MOOC
College Professors Beware—MOOCs are not College
October 13th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips If you are a successful college professor, and someone asks you to turn your course into a MOOC, proceed with great care. These things are not the same. I am currently taking a series of online courses or MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course or is it Massive Online Open Course or is […]
Tags: Education · Learning · MOOC
MOOCs and Bad Presentations
August 15th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Why do online educators put bad presentations in their courses? I am taking yet another online course. My wish is to show potential employers that despite my advanced age I am not brain dead yet and still actively learning. My current online course—no names mentioned to protect the guilty—brings with it something […]
Tags: Education · Learning · MOOC
Udacity.com: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
July 24th, 2014 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I take a Udacity.com online course and find good, bad, and ugly. I recently took an online course from udacity.com. As the post title suggests, I found… The Good: I was excited about the nanodegree program that udacity—one of the big players in MOOC—was about to offer. Companies were creating courses to […]