March 1, 2012
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Holy free education batman!
I was browsing through some blogs as I usually do on my lunch break and I noticed that @boulderchristina had posted an interesting weblog today entitled: “Areas of Expertise”
The discovery of “the MOOC”
I didn’t think much of it at first, but as I read further and watched the video I had an epiphany, I sudden realization that there were online courses you could take for FREE that were community based but lead by industry professionals and college professors! These educational courses are college level and referred to by one common name: MOOC’s (Massive Online Open Courses)
Her blog didn’t provide a huge amount of links to any databases of such courses, but the video inspired me and I began a fanatical search to find one. The search kept on dead ending but I finally stumbled upon one of the most amazing sites I have ever seen. Period.
I started browsing and immediately I became more excited than I’ve been in a while. MOOC’s were real. They weren’t just a concept that someone came up with and made a youtube video about, they were actually tangible! I was overwhelmed, there was no way on earth it could be this easy, there is no way I could take college level courses, complete with homework assignments that are reviewed by certified instructors with comprehensive lesson plans, deadlines etc!
It was real! I was fascinated.
I am now taking a free online course teaching me basic and intermediate level HTML 5. Here are a couple of screen shots:
This is the first screen I saw when I went to p2pu.org, it drew me in.
I discovered that they had entire sections devoted to different disciplines:
And then I discovered that there was a course I’d been wanting to take for YEARS… for free.
I am seriously amazing and more excited than I’ve been in a while. These courses could possibly change my life, no joke.
Thanks for getting me started @boulderchristina and I’m sorry for stealing the theme of your post today!!!!!
Comments (12)
I hope everybody interested posts about it! We need more courses offered and more people willing to take them. (Supply and demand, hehe). I can’t wait for my lunch, I am going to pick out a few. And is it MOOK? Or MOOC? That could be why my search didn’t find that awesome site!
@BoulderChristina - I had to pour through about a dozen forums before I found a link to the site buried deep in a message board!
That’s awesome!! I had no idea, lol.
I don’t like mooks. Here is a definition of a mook from the Urban Dictionary:
dummy, idiot, retard, loser, unlikeable person, poseur, etc.
Basically someone that you think is stupid.
This is how it is interpreted in So.Cal. for the most part.
There you go you fu*kin’ mooks.
i hate that mook,what’s with this mook?,get this mook out of here,fu*k these mooks,this guy looks like a mook.
how cool!
@Kellsbella - not entirely what the post was talking about…..
@justfinethanku - I know. You hit a nerve. There’s a true blue mook that double-crossed me. Sorry to vent, luv.
Holy brain storming, Batman !
@justfinethanku - I have no idea why I spelled it that way… oops. **fixed**
This is pretty awesome
It sounds too good to be true, but I’m a skeptic. Keep us informed.
@whyzat - I’m taking an HTML 5 course now, complete with several instructors.
It’s true!