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I'm a "college dropout." I've made good money since, doing what I love - designing and writing software. I would, however, like the opportunity to take high-in
by delinka 15y ago
I'm a "college dropout." I've made good money since, doing what I love - designing and writing software.
I would, however, like the opportunity to take high-intensity week-long courses on topics that I choose. Don't make me sign up for a degree just to gain some useful knowledge. Offer me Data Structures and Algorithms, two hours a night for five nights. Give me a chance to take some Intro to Design courses (I didn't say 'Photoshop Tutorial')
Sure, I can get books that teach me this stuff, but sometimes I need the social aspect of learning.
- lbotos 15y agoI'm a college student and I wish more schools offered a tracking system like this. More free form and intense. Let me focus on something, give it my all and learn in groups. I know a fair bit of literature courses and history courses could not work like this (easily) but I do see the ability for a lot of the college landscape to be more enjoyable class-focus-intensity wise. I don't know of anybody who likes to waste their time doing something they don't like.
- wisty 15y agoYou're assuming there's a demand for learning.
- mattdeboard 15y agoYes, clearly there's no "demand for learning", that's why Khan Academy is about to go out of business and traditional universities have refused to offer high-quality, free online learning.
- wisty 15y agoYep, as long as it's free. I can't think of many people who pay much to learn stuff, outside of traditional colleges. You might pay a few hundred to go to a conference, but this is much less than you pay to get a degree.
- mattdeboard 15y agoThere IS demand for learning then, we seem to agree on that despite your original post.
- modeless 15y agoThat's the exact need things like Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, Codecademy and Udacity are addressing.
- reledi 15y agoHigh-intensity week-long courses on topics that you choose sounds ideal. It reminds me of ArsDigita University, where the course of study was sequential and intensive, with most courses lasting one month.