Started Woolf Masters in AI [Udacity]

[sialiblo]

I'm not seeing any faculty on that page, even under the courses and faculty tab. Could be my browser setting if it's an interactive etc feature -- I have it set to keep that stuff from automatically loading. Or has the faculty list been removed?

It's still there, from the Courses and Faculty tab, just click one of the course.

[Tomas]

I was wrong, those listed as teachers are not those who developed courses, but who review project submissions.

[Phyexial]

Based on the faculty list (they called them "teachers") at https://woolf.university/degrees/udct-ma...telligence, it raises some questions, many courses were taught by 15+ teachers with no information about their academic qualifications, professional experience, or how they were vetted to teach.

Some of those pictures sure look like mugshots :-).
I tried googleing some of the teachers. A lot of em seems to use famous names of allready passed people. Others sure seem to exist, but why should a mineralogist teach AI? Just doesntmake sense to me.

Don't want to break any forums rules by "doxxing" one of the professors, but I found the Minerologist, and that is definitely the wrong guy. I am 99% sure I found the right guy with same name (MS Info Science from a well regarded Science & Tech institute in their home country, and they have like 25+ years working at high levels for some big tech companies - IBM, Salesforce, Microsoft, Servicenow. No doctorates that I can see (which some people might care about), but he seems pretty qualified to teach the subjects his name appears under.

[sialiblo]

Based on the faculty list (they called them "teachers") at https://woolf.university/degrees/udct-ma...telligence, it raises some questions, many courses were taught by 15+ teachers with no information about their academic qualifications, professional experience, or how they were vetted to teach.

Some of those pictures sure look like mugshots :-).
I tried googleing some of the teachers. A lot of em seems to use famous names of allready passed people. Others sure seem to exist, but why should a mineralogist teach AI? Just doesntmake sense to me.

Don't want to break any forums rules by "doxxing" one of the professors, but I found the Minerologist, and that is definitely the wrong guy. I am 99% sure I found the right guy with same name (MS Info Science from a well regarded Science & Tech institute in their home country, and they have like 25+ years working at high levels for some big tech companies - IBM, Salesforce, Microsoft, Servicenow. No doctorates that I can see (which some people might care about), but he seems pretty qualified to teach the subjects his name appears under.

I don't get it why do we have to guess and look this up online. Their professional and educational background should be on the faculty/teacher page.

[origamishuttle]

...I found the Minerologist, and that is definitely the wrong guy.

I, for one, am grateful for the mistake, which brought us comedy gold. Happy accidents!  

Others sure seem to exist, but why should a mineralogist teach AI? Just doesntmake sense to me.

Data mining

[UoBoomer]

https://mfhea.mt/resources/announcements/

Notice is hereby given to the general public that in terms of its licence Woolf can only conduct teaching and learning undertaken by Woolf directly. Any teaching conducted in the name of Woolf by any entity not formally approved by MFHEA is not covered by Woolf’s MFHEA licence. Students enrolled before the 1st September 2026 shall be allowed to continue their studies with Woolf uninterrupted.

This definitely has an impact on new enrollments...

[Tomas]

https://mfhea.mt/resources/announcements/

Notice is hereby given to the general public that in terms of its licence Woolf can only conduct teaching and learning undertaken by Woolf directly. Any teaching conducted in the name of Woolf by any entity not formally approved by MFHEA is not covered by Woolf’s MFHEA licence. Students enrolled before the 1st September 2026 shall be allowed to continue their studies with Woolf uninterrupted.

This definitely has an impact on new enrollments...

they could likely convert their virtual colleges into legally Woolf entities, but (many buts)... and they have a similar collegiate model under work in US (no idea how far)
and there is another threat, the necessity to conduct certain percentage of lectures live I think, from 2027
that will be tough period, also wondering how their major "colleges" will react, I can imagine some have backing strong enough to go for own accreditation