▲ ▼ Comparing the value of online course certificate
There is no shortage of online courses, first there were the likes of Coursera, Udacity and now every University have their own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) or have partnerships with online education companies to provide their course.
All of them claim that their certificate is valuable with the employers, but how can be we sure of it? There is no clear way to know which certificates, from which MOOC providers are valuable and which companies accept such certificates.
It could be very useful if there was an online portal, which compares and rates these online course certificates based upon the quality of education and actual number of people who got employed because of the certificate.
could this be solved by a "glassdoor" for courses type of system? Where individuals take the course and provide ratings on a third party?
I do think a Glassdoor like platform for MOOC would be great, but how can we avoid fake, coerced reviews like Glassdoor?
Could we integrate the system to verify the user completed the course. You don't want reviews from folks mid-way or that bailed half way through. It should showcase that you "passed" the course and you are a verified student.
Since the platforms which host MOOC have incentive to post fake reviews, I wonder course completion could be trusted.
Yeah i got you're point even the rating of course are weird Last Day i take a course on content marketing from coursera, the course is well rated but when i 've gone deeper in that course i was more and more bored. In order to know if it was my fault or just my opinion i share it with People so they could try it, those People come back to me saying it was a nightmare (the content is good but the instructor isn't engaging etc)
I think it could benefit both side to have something like that, because first you make decision clearer for student and second you could help platform to put certificate only for courses that worth it.
Third point:It could also benefit university to cleraly know that course they should put with a certificate and which course they should really put on mooc. Let's calrify it, for exemple Harvard put some free courses on Harvard website, some of these courses are way better than those they proposed on coursera etc.
Last point there is a lot of platform, a lot of them are talking about how they're certificate is cool, the fact is that you don't really know if employers really value those certificates.
If you need some help let me know Tina.
It would take much time to build a website for this.
I agree with your comment.
If there's enough need gap, startups wouldn't mind solving this. Besides, since inherent nature of certificates are to publicize I think one part of the data is easy to obtain, survey. What's difficult is to empirically ascertain how much weightage that certificate played in a candidate landing in an interview.
Nevertheless, I think there are high chances that this problem would be addressed soon. I would welcome anyone deciding so, to join this discussion to build something which people want.
I forgot to mention it but I see another way to put this ''idea'' into life. there are courses that aren't part of popular platforms but which can help you to find a job or to learn searched skills, it would be helpful to bring them into the light of the public.
Hi Ali, Can you give some examples for such courses?
hi, yes. here some courses :
1how to build an audience on twitter:https://gumroad.com/l/twitter-audience
2Increase your skill for seo ;https://seothatworks.com/
3 course about rental property:https://courses.affordanything.com/
4 create a proftable newsletter':https://newslettercreators.com/
5 master nocode tools: https://www.makerpad.co/ (for this one I can tell that it is dope,i know some people who subscribe they already create more than 10 websites or app)
6 design for developers :https://mackenziechild.podia.com/design-for-developers
7 Trading course Tim sykes is great https://profit.ly/guru/timothysykes?aff=8884
8;writting to build a career ?check david perell https://www.perell.com/write-of-passage
The list could grow i just put those that i know or that my friends know, but there is many more
Hey, thanks for that. Great list! But, aren't all of them for self-employment? Not that I'm complaining. It's just interesting that you compared courses offered in MOOC with this.
Nevertheless, I do agree that adding these kind of (validated) courses would bring value to a platform which rates online courses.
exemple there is a new trend from.
Companies they use zoom to keep relations and engagements with their Customers. But if you a small business and don't know how to make it you will employ or paid someone to make it.
So it is easy to say that if you know how to organize event for marketing and Customers relastionships you will find a Job quickly even remotly, event if it is temporary you will developp skills tajy are searched .
But as you could see none of the well know platform nor mooc adapt their content to trends.
But i could tell that even if makerpad isn't about trend, they were selling course on how to set up your on vide conferencing tool for your companie or for a small business. Some newsletter and self employed teacher shared how to maintain customers relationships with online presence etc.
I could also tell you that i was following a course about content marketing from coursera. A well rated course. the sad fact is that what this course teachs me on hours, david perell teachs me the exact from 10 seconds reading tweets
Hi Yes some of them there are for self employment but you could also used it as way to boost your career.So here why i compare them to mooc :
1:some knowledge proposed on thèses courses can give you better opportunity to developp a skill that will attract employers attention. For exemple thé better sheets would give you more chance to be employed for a data post or crm management post than Excel courses proposed by ivy League university.
2:theses courses are use by self employed People who make a leaving from à very specific skill /expertise, mooc course ar good but more general you couldn't find content like that in them.
3:these courses follow trends, and this is the very important part because with mooc you don't know what is the trend by industry
I guess this can be done by scraping certifications data from the linkedin and then sorting the post-certification employer of the individuald based on fortune500 or market value of the employers
If anyone is interested in implementing it hit me up on twitter @tojvann
Thanks, others in the comments have suggested the same. I'm not sure whether I'm equipped to implementing it, but I will definitely be a user if someone develops a solution for this.
This could be problem faced by anyone who wishes to take up an online course and faces several choices.
Thanks, guess I'll have to start looking up profiles on LinkedIn with online course certificates and ask them directly.