adrienne
@adrienne
Has anyone here taken any of the free online college courses offered thru MIT, Stanford, Coursera etc? I have an undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering and spent my professional career in Software Engineering and general business/management. In the coming year I’m going to have a little more free personal time and I’m considering trying one of these courses and curious to hear anyone’s experience. I’ve done lots of continuous learning over the years- reading blogs and books, listening to talks, plus some formal professional training - but all of a sudden I’m yearning for a classroom and more structured curriculum. The only question I have is whether to do computer science (to satisfy my desire to know the difference between on the job learning and what is being taught) or humanities (because I missed out in college).
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JB Rubinovitz ⌐◨-◨
@rubinovitz
What are you trying to get out of the experience? I separate my online learning by experts in a field I intrinsically care about (eg karpathy), missing foundations (eg Feynman physics lectures), upskilling for money (eg write of passage).
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JB Rubinovitz ⌐◨-◨
@rubinovitz
You ask yourself this at the end of the post but I think whatever you choose to do should be dictated by the answer to that question.
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JB Rubinovitz ⌐◨-◨
@rubinovitz
So TLDR my scattered Saturday morning answer is yes I have taken online classes. Sorry for the rant!
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adrienne
@adrienne
lol never apologize for ranting- that’s what I’m here for 😝
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