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A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - MNomadic - 01-01-2022 Freecodecamp.org article link Quote:2021 has been a big year for the freeCodeCamp community: RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - bjcheung77 - 01-01-2022 Wow, that's good for them. I think there maybe a place for them if they get enough funding and also partners/supporters willing to fork the bill. Having said that, it seems like they're trying to "be the next" UofPeople, starting off with a CS degree and maybe something else in the future. Tuition technically is free at UofP, they just have "fees" for applications and exams. If these guys move into a similar model, it may somewhat "better" their funding... they won't be able to sustain free without someone forking the bills... RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - MNomadic - 01-01-2022 (01-01-2022, 09:14 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Wow, that's good for them. I think there maybe a place for them if they get enough funding and also partners/supporters willing to fork the bill. Having said that, it seems like they're trying to "be the next" UofPeople, starting off with a CS degree and maybe something else in the future. Tuition technically is free at UofP, they just have "fees" for applications and exams. If these guys move into a similar model, it may somewhat "better" their funding... they won't be able to sustain free without someone forking the bills...True. I think they should hit up some of the tech billionaires. I know the Gates foundation has spent a lot funding education initiatives like Khan academy and Mackenzie Scott has donated billions towards education and workforce training. I don't have any experience with UofPeople, but I have used a bunch of freecodecamp's courses/resources over the last few years and definitely found them to be of good quality. I think that if they can get the funding and navigate the accreditation process, they'll be able to design a superior CS program and maybe other specialist degree programs like data science and cybersecurity. RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - ashkir - 01-02-2022 The idea of them becoming accredited is awesome. Hopefully someone familiar with navigating this can help them. I heard it's an expensive process. FYI: I sent this to the dean of UMPI's YourPace program. This link said they're looking for a university to partner with. UMPI has expressed interest in an online computer science degree... Maybe they can partner up. RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - bluebooger - 01-02-2022 I would love to see WGU's Bachelors of Science Data Analytics and Data Management https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/data-management-analytics-bachelors-program.html drop the data analyst nanodegree from udacity and use some stuff from freecodecamp or use the "Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate" from coursera https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-data-analytics or the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-data-science? from coursera would also like to see them drop the totally useless Comptia A+ certificate and replace it with Discrete Math I think those changes would make the WGU degree much better RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - SteveFoerster - 01-02-2022 If anyone can do it, it's Michael Saylor and his team. They'll get there. RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - ashkir - 01-03-2022 (01-02-2022, 02:58 PM)SteveFoerster Wrote: If anyone can do it, it's Michael Saylor and his team. They'll get there. I would love to see Saylor work on new classes and push forward again. This is awesome. RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - cardiacclep - 01-03-2022 This would be great to see......seems like the accrediation hurdle is huge gate keeper keeping the acceleration of affordable education at a slower pace. Free Code Camp and courses like Dr. Serverance provide more value that many college courses. The future should look like the sampling of courses from the best teachers where an aggregate of courses can be accepted universally. I feel this is happening.........Outlier comes to mind in this approach. The old expensive approach just cannot sustain much longer. Exciting times in higher ed technology. RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - MNomadic - 10-31-2022 An update! https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-math-computer-science-degree-update/ In short, they have a long road ahead in order to develop all of the courses and navigate accreditation. They're anticipating the possibility of it taking a decade so don't hold your breath. Though they do plan to start releasing their first few courses in 2023(probably not accredited). Also, they plan for it to be self paced. Things they need: - money/donations (of course) - teachers/instructors/professors - course beta testers They have their AS Mathematics and BS CS mapped out(the AS ladders right in to the BS): Associate of Science in Mathematics Philosophy of Knowledge History of Computation College Algebra Foundations of Critical Thinking Precalculus Ethical Reasoning Calculus I English Rhetoric and Composition Probability and Statistics I Health and Wellness Calculus II Probability and Statistics II Professional and Technical Writing Calculus III Discrete Mathematics Economics of Technology and the Labor Market Linear Algebra Theory of Computation Organizational Behavior Applied Quantitative Reasoning Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Introduction to Computer Science Data Structures and Algorithms Electronics and Embedded Systems Software Design and Engineering Computer Systems and Architecture Relational Databases and NoSQL Systems Fundamentals of Computer Networking Algorithmic Design and Analysis Applied Computer Graphics Full-Stack Web Development Principles of Information Security Human-Computer Interaction Foundations of Data Analysis Applied Data Visualization Foundations of Data Engineering Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Deep Learning Methodologies Applied Natural Language Processing Applied Computer Vision Software Industry Interview Preparation The whole thing sounds exciting to me even if their goal will hard to accomplish. RE: A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? - blablablox - 10-31-2022 (01-01-2022, 09:14 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Wow, that's good for them. I think there maybe a place for them if they get enough funding and also partners/supporters willing to fork the bill. Having said that, it seems like they're trying to "be the next" UofPeople, starting off with a CS degree and maybe something else in the future. Tuition technically is free at UofP, they just have "fees" for applications and exams. If these guys move into a similar model, it may somewhat "better" their funding... they won't be able to sustain free without someone forking the bills... but didn't worldquant succeed into doing that already? and they didn't do a fee model like uopeople, how can they afford maintaining their master's degree? |