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Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 08:29
by LittleJulez
Alice, that sounds cool! :D
(Sorry about all the HP talk here.. :D)
Nikki, that's even for university.. So "high-brow" I guess :D
I don't feel like going to university today ._. But I actually only have Swedish classes today...
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 13:27
by AliceON
if it's far from home, you could skip it..?
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 20:33
by Akili Li
I love the distance courses where you can curl up at home and still attend classes. I never had any while actually in school but sometimes I take something when I can wrangle a good deal (financially) and get to attend a course in something or other that way. It's so nice not to have to leave a warm nest with everything spread out around you just as you like.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 20:43
by AliceON
what courses have you attended this way?
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 21:04
by jacobgrey
I like to learn at home too. Though I've only done very short courses or seminars this way.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 21:10
by Akili Li
One on AM fungi, one on the (mostly local) history of mathematical education (I thought it would be much more general and far-reaching but it mostly just covered the last century here in this state of the US, which was disappointing), one on conversational Spanish, and I know there were a couple others but that's all I'm remembering right now. Oh, there was a statistical analysis methodology one, which turned out to be designed for social sciences and I was looking for something that'd help understanding a biochem paper so I ended up dropping that one. Hm. I think I may have taken the AM fungi one twice? That might actually be all! Not so many in the end.
Oh! Also a shorter, more seminar-like one on human anatomy and another about cultural impacts on medical history-taking. But those were super short one-off things where there was only one long session.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 21:31
by AliceON
that's some interesting stuff. and they were all from a university? I only know of platforms like coursera that offer pre-recorded online courses, some of them by universities
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 21:46
by Akili Li
Yes, for the most part. Not all, but most.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 13th, '18, 22:12
by AliceON
I'm not sure our university offers any online courses. but I'm speaking for the philology departments only. maybe sciences or other humanities have it differently
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 14th, '18, 02:20
by Sanssouci
My local library posted on facebook that there were some online classes that you could take for free if you had a library card. I can't even remember what website it was through now. But I signed up for a couple really easy ones just to try it out (one was on pet animal care and one was on wild animal care for rehabbers), but ugh, they were awful! Well, the wild animal care one was ok, but it was just really basic/generic. But the pet one was actually full of a lot of incorrect/really outdated info. So that really turned me off!