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Another "Masters" in Data Science via MOOCs ... (3)

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Last update: February 2/25/18 Two years ago David Venturi posted a widely read description of the path he followed to obtain a self-designed "Masters" degree in data science via MOOCs, i.e., a free education that was equivalent in scope and quality to what he would have received had he completed a Masters degree program from one of the nation's leading universities.  You can read his account here ==>  MY DATA SCIENCE MASTER'S . The following note describes the "Masters" in data science that I designed for myself, a program that I will complete within the next five or six months.
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Affirmative action at America's top tier private colleges and universities ... updated 9/29/18

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Last update:  Satirday 9/29/18 The advocates for Asian applicants who are  currently challenging Harvard University's admissions policies  would surely concede that all of the freshmen admitted in a particular year to a top tier university should be Ethiopian or Polish or Peloponnesian Greek if Ethiopians, Poles, or Peloponnesian Greeks were the most qualified applicants that year.
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Competency-based job-oriented MOOC programs

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Last update: Tuesday 2/6/18 By definition, job-oriented MOOC programs provide their students with the professional competence required to obtain and succeed in new jobs. Nevertheless, job-oriented programs do not adapt their curricula to accommodate the varying skills and aptitudes that their entering students bring to the table. In other words, there are no competency-based  programs.
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Six features to look for in job-oriented MOOCs ... (4)

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Last update: Monday 1/29/18 In August 2017, I posted a discussion of job-oriented MOOCs  on this blog that provided lots of data about some U.S. providers. The following note provides guidelines and recommendations based on that data and on my personal experience in passing almost 50 job-oriented MOOCs in the last three years. 
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MOOCs, Data Science, and me

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Last update: Friday 26 January 2018 This post is a personal note from the DLL Editor, a belated follow-up to previous posts that have marked his progress via MOOCs towards becoming a data scientist ... :-) Readers can offer me their congratulations and/or condolences on my completion of another online Data Science certificate program -- this one from DataCamp  (23 short courses) ; my first online DS certificate was from Johns Hopkins U via Coursera (9 courses plus a capstone course). 
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