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>who knows what and in what order to teach. Plenty of courses have their general outline publicly available. Some colleges even share older lectures [0]. There
by Nadya 10y ago
>who knows what and in what order to teach.
Plenty of courses have their general outline publicly available. Some colleges even share older lectures [0]. There are more-than-enough resources available for self-directed learning. Have questions? StackOverflow exists.
The #1 criticism against self-directed learning is how self-motivated the autodidact is. Most people suck at staying motivated to teach themselves. If they aren't 100% passionate about learning the subject and can keep their interest going, they will fail.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT/playlists https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT/playlists
- dozzie 10y ago> Plenty of courses have their general outline publicly available. Yeah, something like educational videos we have since the VHS era, and even before that, handbooks. It's still nothing like having a real teacher.
- arielcamus 10y agoI totally agree with you -- staying motivated, especially if you are learning alone from home, it's incredibly difficult. I have a thesis that I have recently started to validate which is that you can considerably improve motivation in self-directed learning environments by introducing online collaborative learning. I just wrote about it and launched a little course/workshop to test the idea: https://medium.com/@arielcamus/learn-to-build-a-backend-with-node-js-doing-pair-programming-b6d5a241b846#.utueveijh https://medium.com/@arielcamus/learn-to-build-a-backend-with...