I came to ITP to give myself time and space to focus on my studies. Before ITP I was working at a database company on their education team. Part of the company’s goals is for their employees to have a ‘transformational career experience’. People are encourage to set personal improvement goals, attend classes, and expand their skills. This happens though in person classes at places like General Assembly, online courses with Coursera, Udacity, or straight from a university. This is how I realized that I was interested in pursuing design and technology. Even though we had work time for self improvement and the resources to do it, I felt that in order to make the leap into design I needed to make it the focus of my time.
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The “transformational career experience” sounds awesome! How did the majority of employees reacted to that? I’m thinking that many people in other places would want to just do whatever they are supposed to do, without wanting to be over-involved or without wanting to be in the uncomfortable and vulnerable situation of learning more. But if all the group had a good attitude, then it should have been incredible.
Do you think that online degrees are valued by employers as much as traditional degrees?