Codam College: Free High Quality Education with Victoria Ous and David Giron
Beyond Coding19 Heinä 2023

Codam College: Free High Quality Education with Victoria Ous and David Giron

Connect with Victoria Ous:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriaous

Connect with David Giron:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dgiron

Additional links:

https://www.codam.nl/en

https://tumo.org


Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/5lo6atmVjWQ

New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode!

OUTLINE:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - Codam has no teachers
00:01:29 - How Victoria got involved with Codam
00:02:11 - David and the 42 Network
00:03:42 - Codam's educational model
00:05:57 - What if students get stuck?
00:06:59 - Feedback from graduates
00:08:47 - Learning to learn
00:10:29 - What is the role of education?
00:12:19 - Knowledge, soft skills and mental health
00:14:51 - Fail as many times as you need
00:16:23 - Educational choices have consequences
00:17:33 - The Dutch educational system filters people
00:18:49 - The impact of teachers
00:19:50 - Patrick's cousin studies dentistry in Armenia
00:21:03 - Onboarding in Codam College
00:24:27 - How the educational model works
00:28:19 - The final project: The Internship
00:31:58 - Student performance after Codam
00:34:17 - The challenges of not being accredited
00:38:05 - Free education
00:39:44 - How long is the educational journey?
00:41:01 - Alumni
00:42:56 - Working with organisations
00:45:34 - Applying the model to other topics
00:48:19 - Lowering the age requirement
00:50:05 - Tumo and dream based education
00:52:23 - AI disruption and the future of education
00:55:58 - ChatGPT and Codam
00:57:33 - Rounding off

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