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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
by 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 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?