[rajekas]

Any article that mentions unbundling, disruption, bubble and tipping point in less then a thousand words deserves mention in the Malcolm Gladwell hall of fame.

Here's the opposite argument: universities will eat bootcamps for lunch because in the post-COVID era they will be hungry for the same dollar and I would much prefer getting a Harvard Online degree than from Fullstack Camp TM.

There's no doubt that higher education will be transformed by the COVID19 crisis but it's extremely unlikely (in my view) that the shifts will go along the lines predicted by Silicon Valley 'product thinkers.' There's a reason why Universities have lasted longer than civilizations.

[enumjorge]

You bring up an interesting point. How do people feel about boot camps? I looked into them a while ago when a friend asked me for a recommendation since he was interested in switching careers. The reviews and experiences I came across were mixed. Some positive and a lot of mediocre ones. Boot camps didn’t seem like they were the disruption to 4 year degrees they were once billed as.

If online bootcamps and schools were killing it right now then I could see the argument that they’re the ones to watch. But as it stands I don’t know that there’s an obvious winner. Like you said, universities might be the ones who end up driving the change.

[sylens]

I feel like I have seen mostly negative reviews and impressions come out of them. I'm sure there are some good ones, but I remember specific claims against some of them being that they inflate their own job placement numbers by just employing previous graduates as TAs and instructors to keep the machine going.

I think a much more practical option in the long-term will be something like what Shopify is doing with their Dev Degree program - https://devdegree.ca.