MIT to offer certificates to outside students via online courses

Saw this today, thought people on the forum would be interested. Best part, only a "modest fee" to get the credential and the courses will be free.

MIT Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students Who Take Its Online Courses - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

 

Even if the diploma doesn't say MIT people will come to know it as an MIT cert. Could be fantastic.

 

Agreed. +1

 

^^^^This is one of the times I wish we had a "Like" button for posts.

I can just see it now; "Graduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology". :suspect:

 

Sign me up! My resume will read:

Post Doctorate Fellowship Graduate - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Post Doc because I studied after I got a PhD, Fellowship because I am a nice fellow, Graduate because I graduated from someplace...:sasmokin:

 

I'm not following. So these are free online courses and if you complete a certain number of courses or gain a certain number of credits you earn a certificate? Sorry to be so uninformed but I am just not familiar with MIT's online learning style.

 

Please pardon me for asking the obvious question but do you guys really think that these will just be trash certs?

 

I am often tempted to try to spin a way to use my daughters' accomplishments on my resumes, but so far I have not done it! I always hope the topic will come up in an interview where I get to mention that my oldest got her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and was immediately hired at MIT (true) and my second daughter graduated from Princeton and is now working on her Ph.D. at University of Washington. There must be a way a mother could put that on the resume, right? LOL

 

Without really knowing the details it's hard to say but right now I'm thinking that if you have to take a few MIT-based courses along with the associated tests then it's more or less the same as studying for a CLEP test. We don't look down on those, do we?

 

do you get a temporary MIT email? :laugh2:

 

I don't think anybody would look down on a certificate for anything done with MIT. I also don't think that was the point made about spinning this on a resume. I think the point was that MIT is one of the finest of the finest, and adding this certficate to your resume might be a way to make oneself sound a bit more impressive when it is really something good (like passing a CLEP test) but not something quite as impressive as actually being accepted as a regular student on the MIT campus. And while I have taken and passed CLEP tests, I have certainly never felt the need to mention it on my resume.

 

Yes and no......yes because I can't see these certificates being anything you would have matted and framed, but no because just having "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" on your resume in any capacity certainly can't hurt.

 

I think these things will have utility and value. I just recently revamped my resume and seperated "Skills and Certifications" from my academic degrees and certificates. Something like this would fit nicely in that new category assuming that it was an area of study related to the job for which I was applying.