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I like their model of education which focuses on highly targeted technical skills to be completed in 3-6 months. Continuing education is an interesting beast. The transitional educational opportunities are often out of sync for a working professional. We don’t need a second bachelors or a masters but rather an in-depth course to get us up to speed where we’re lacking.

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It still feels like 3-6 months is far too short for a curriculum for people making career changes, as there is a great deal of depth for each topic covered.

For example, in their Robotics Software Engineering degree, one of the topics they cover is Mapping and SLAM. That topic alone is a full university course and a specialization, i.e. Cyrill Stachniss' lectures on YouTube.

I think online courses try too hard to squeeze too much material in a short time, whereby students only acquire a superficial understanding of a topic.

if you look at the price they paid, compare to the students enrolled in real university, you got what you paid for.

Knowledge always costs some money, for cheap things you should be ware of what really missing.

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