How frustrating! Did you write in to tell them about the newer data? Sometimes if you help them correct outdated info they will consult you when designing other courses, and you can make sure no one else runs into that issue. (That's actually how I got into the AM Fungi course; I was reading a website which had outdated info and sent links to the newer findings to the contact email, and then a couple weeks later the professor contacted me apologizing for not keeping the website up to date and comp'd the online course as a sort of incentive/reward for actually reaching out instead of ignoring it)

I've never taken classes from home, but maybe that would be a nice thing to try.
I am quite busy with what I have on my schedule anyway though..
I ended up going to Swedish btw, it was worth it :) But the rest of the day was not really productive..

Akili I think that is quite an amount of online courses, they all sound very interesting!

Sanssouci, that is frustrating, indeed! :(

Julez it might be if they happened all at once but those are the grand total of all the online courses I've ever taken over all the years I knew it existed as an option. So taken in that context, it's not too many!

I'm glad you made it to class and that it was worth it. At least that's something done, and you spent your productive energy on something that turned out well.

What are some of your favorites Swedish books?

That's awesome that the professor contacted you like that!

There was a test at the end of the class. And for a lot of the questions I wrote things like, "Well, the course said ________, but you actually want to do _________ because _________."

Sanssouci wrote:There was a test at the end of the class. And for a lot of the questions I wrote things like, "Well, the course said ________, but you actually want to do _________ because _________."

I can only lol at that

ha ha, I guess that's one way to give feedback!

See, I think a reputation as a company that updates and corrects itself is better than a clearly fake one. Can't you say something like "This may be an outdated edition so early errors are not corrected yet. Good catch! I wish we could afford the latest" and imply that of course the company knew about it and has fixed it already?
I would not want to buy from a company that doesn't update and correct things, because I wouldn't be able to trust what they've already done if I can't see that they're constantly working on improvements. So surely a reputation that they are always striving to be the best they can is better than a reputation of supposedly never having errors? It's just not believable that anyone or anything will never have any errors....

I still haven't picked a challenge for 2018, and it's almost over. Maybe I should just focus on next year.