They may be good resources but the energy in the air during that time was that they could challenge universities. It is clear with passed time that they didn't, and will not.
Yeah, challenging university system was there. But it turned out really very very few people were motivated enough to finish the whole course to level of completing certificate which were quite cheap.
Most people enrolled to audit tons of courses, caught a few lectures, got bored and moved on.
As with anything that is now present in abundance due to internet curation becomes the key and that is either not cheap or not available in general.
I seriously "took" a few mostly not too challenging MOOCs early on. But, once the novelty wore off, I take a few things on LinkedIn through my company from time to time and go to a few conferences but I find it's hard without a concrete objective of some sort to really go deep on a topic.
True. I also took few computer related and many non-career oriented courses in social science/ history etc. It was fun and then life got busy.
> but I find it's hard without a concrete objective of some sort to really go deep on a topic.
I think this is key. With gazillion courses out there I don't know what is my end goal while randomly choosing interesting courses.
Further, work has become increasingly crappier where no matter what problem to be solved just plan to shove all stuff in Microservice/Kafka/Gitlab/Kubernetes meat grinder. And I remain unmotivated to take any course on these topics.
