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Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi
None of the course I've signed up for have said any of the books are mandatory (one of them even lets you read the relevant chapters for free online) and they can **** off if they think I'm going to be buying any.
The one thing I really don't like about university education is that it's supposed to broaden your mind and give you a holistic education experience but when you get there what you actually get in a lot of courses is: buy this book, read these chapters, do exam on these chapters.
We got seriously stung with it when I did my PGDE. Every single one of the 3 textbooks we "had" to buy was edited or written by one of the senior lecturers and they were all full of total shit.
Check my last post, I've signed up for the rock history course. We can compare notes and plagiarize from each other  |
yeah, that is often a problem with some teachers or lecturers, they think the world evolves around their subjects and think that their opinion is the only one that counts.
We could form a online study group the rock history class
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Originally Posted by Roxannah
ok, want to hear something really odd
a friend of mine is starting her PHD in South Korea come October and is here for a couple of weeks before she heads back to London, where she lives. i went to pick her up for dinner, she was super late. why? she had just been doing an assignment for one of the courses on this site! she was telling me all about it over dinner, how she's done a bunch of them already, how she thinks these will be super useful for her CV and how things generally work. it's really odd that she was telling me all this just this past weekend and i now find a thread about it here
learning is one of biggest pleasures in life for me, i want to know everything and about everything, so obviously i checked the site when i got home. i wanted to enroll is so many courses but i tried keeping it realistic as i probably wouldn't have the time for it all. i've decided to start with something light to have a better grasp on how things work. and i picked.... History of Rock shame it only starts in May though, i wanted to start right away!
my friend also recommended this other site
https://www.canvas.net
but Coursera seemed better overall. |
That sounds odd, indeed
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What I fear is that if these "extra efforts" become mandatory in a few years from now, it helps to make the economy more complex than it already is. To get a job you don't just need to have awesome grades, great internships, volunteer work and speak 20 languages you also need to do extra course work like this.
But in my case I can really say I did everything I have in my CV because I wanted to do it for myself and like you said, learning is one of my biggest pleasures in life as well
and I need to not subscribe to too many courses. Rock history is a great place to start, though.