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The stuff they teach in university is always way out of date, we're trying to change that and make it free to learn.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The stuff they teach in university is always way out of date, we're trying to change that and make it free to learn.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