Sunday, January 27, 2013

Many online learning choices

Tekpub Content Library


One more web site with training screencasts...
The authors are presentations are well known experts.
Are they also the best teachers?

And one more: LearnVisualStudio.net

So along with SafariBooksOnline, Pluralsight, Linda, CodeSchool, LearnDevNow...
there is plenty of commercial learning choices,
besides "free university startups" ...

"Massive Open Online Classes are getting it wrong"

Kio Stark » Massive Open Online Classes are getting it wrong.
She wrote a book "Don't go Back to School" (financed over Kickstarter)
by interviewing those who learn independently...

In her opinion, focus of MOOCs should be on non-linear process of learning,
and creating common context and community,
instead of just publishing materials online...