Any positive mooc course stories/experiences?

[mam29]

Due to having a undergraduate degree cant afford go back uni to do more hgher ed courses.

Further ed courses ie a levels also seem out my financal reach.

I have 2 levels in law and sociology which I enjoyed.

My degree was business and legal studies so business law for me to have done law as career would have had to do another degree, the finance bits excempt me from 1st stage accountancy but I hate accounts.

so was bit wasted degree really.

did consider retraining to be health vistor or social work but cant afford it.

At moment im at home with kds.

would like to do something keep my mind ticking over hope to go back to work one day.

I did sign up for coursera last year back then was few courses and joined introduction to fnance week in but wasent the course for me lots of maths equations, good tutor but dident have time to devote.

I looked again this year and few short courses in education tempted to sign up for.

So questions are anyone else done courses.enjoyed them one well?

has it improved employment opportunities?

would love to hear how moocs start of better things

do employers know about moocs and rate them?

as saw bit on newsnight the other month.

wondering f few courses in education plus my experience with kids might help me get classroom assistant job then maybe work way up to high level classroom assistant.

Just want to do course enjoy and as its free nothing to lose.

any rcecmomendations?

ou seems to gone super expensive these days.

[MsAverage]

Did several, finished none, had fun in the process, felt enriched in the end.

A friend of mine, who also did a few, but unlike me, finished them, just got a better job. On the interview he learnt that his CV was found by the search for one specific MOOC he completed (Machine Learning).

[eatyourveg]

ds did a coursera one from Penn state uni on american poetry during his gap year - loved it. There are a couple of mners discussing a maths one they are currently doing from Stanford on an education thread see here

[EduCated]

I've done a few with Coursera, really enjoyed Digital Cultures and Education from Edinburgh which I think is re-running later this year. Finished 3, signed up for about 10. No real benefit other than enjoying them, but that was all I wanted out of them in the first place.

They might not help directly with moving into working with children/education, but it might build your confidence in the area/bring you up to speed a bit more with some of the theories etc which can only be a good thing

I'd say just keep trying them, you've nothing to lose by signing up to them!