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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 11 January 2016 03:52:55AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I am sure enough about this not happening that I am willing to place bets. There is an enormous amount of intangibles Coursera can't give you (I agree it can be useful for a certain type of person for certain types of aims).

Which of these intangibles do you think are highly valued by a typical employer?

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 11 January 2016 04:47:45AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, I thought we were talking about novel research.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 11 January 2016 06:43:02AM 0 points [-]

No worries. Yeah if you're talking about novel research, it does seem plausible that credible alternatives largely don't currently exist outside academia... which is what makes the question of how to create those alternatives if academia's subsidy were to collapse an interesting one to me.

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