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It would be awesome to work on something like this since the community desperately needs more open training -- the standard 4-year model really isn't cutting it

by rkon 15y ago

It would be awesome to work on something like this since the community desperately needs more open training -- the standard 4-year model really isn't cutting it anymore. Now if only I hadn't let college get in the way of pursuing web development -_-

johndbritton 15y ago
The stuff they teach in university is always way out of date, we're trying to change that and make it free to learn.
- rkon 15y ago
  I know exactly what you mean. I'm at Penn State currently finishing a class that only covered HTML4 (no 5 at all), and the teacher still taught us to do layouts with tables instead of CSS. It's pathetic and frustrating, especially because there are already better tutorials for free online -- like Harvard / Stanford / MIT open courseware -- or for dirt cheap monthly subs at places like Lynda and tuts+. One of the problems is just organizing it all in a logical fashion from so many scattered places, which seems to be one thing a unified source like this project will remedy.
  - johndbritton 15y ago
    This is a serious issue. We're also really interested in recognizing individuals for the work they've done. There is a ton of content available, P2PU is working to build a community around all that content.
    - AndyHendy 15y ago
      The knowledge shared among the collective student body can build on itself much more rapidly than a single professor might be able to study the latest techniques and teach it to his class.
      - r00fus 15y ago
        Amusing that the best topology for learning in a fast moving and highly experimental knowledge area isn't a top-down or hub-and-spoke, but more of a web... Perhaps universities shouldn't be teaching "web development" as a class (by the time the curriculum is written things will already start to get stale), and focus instead on "internet-enabled research and collaboration" with web development as a topic?

by rkon 15y ago

johndbritton 15y ago

The stuff they teach in university is always way out of date, we're trying to change that and make it free to learn.

rkon 15y ago
I know exactly what you mean. I'm at Penn State currently finishing a class that only covered HTML4 (no 5 at all), and the teacher still taught us to do layouts with tables instead of CSS. It's pathetic and frustrating, especially because there are already better tutorials for free online -- like Harvard / Stanford / MIT open courseware -- or for dirt cheap monthly subs at places like Lynda and tuts+. One of the problems is just organizing it all in a logical fashion from so many scattered places, which seems to be one thing a unified source like this project will remedy.
- johndbritton 15y ago
  This is a serious issue. We're also really interested in recognizing individuals for the work they've done. There is a ton of content available, P2PU is working to build a community around all that content.
  - AndyHendy 15y ago
    The knowledge shared among the collective student body can build on itself much more rapidly than a single professor might be able to study the latest techniques and teach it to his class.
    - r00fus 15y ago
      Amusing that the best topology for learning in a fast moving and highly experimental knowledge area isn't a top-down or hub-and-spoke, but more of a web... Perhaps universities shouldn't be teaching "web development" as a class (by the time the curriculum is written things will already start to get stale), and focus instead on "internet-enabled research and collaboration" with web development as a topic?