Validity and acceptance of NanoDegrees, Specializations, etc, for MOOC?

I want to ask the knowledgeable members of this forum their opinion about this new kind of credentials. Do they hold any curricular value? Can the recently NanoDegrees become a viable alternative to a Associate Degree or even Bachelors? I recently payed $500 for a (verified) specialization track from Coursera and I'm having second thoughts about it. I am better spending that money at a B&M certificate?

Thanks for your time!

 

I think it's fine for entry-level technical, vocational, and business since business degrees are essentially fluff until you start getting higher into statistics and creating marketing & development plans (provided you go with a school that even gets that deep into it, which many don't).

The main problem is not the concept but the lack of public recognition of the companies/schools offering them, and the lack of people/companies that know about them and will recognize them.

 

Well, for Coursera, I don't think this makes alot of sense considering most MOOCs are sponsored by physical universities. I did the Coursera Data Science Specialization and my certificates say Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on them, and my edX Programming for data Science certificate says MIT on it. When I put them on my resume, I put Johns Hopkins/MIT on there, so the person looking at it doesn't have to have ever heard of edx/coursera.

Udacity...might be another story.

 

So, is fine to include online courses in your resume? Is specifying that they are online courses needed?