zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Feb 22, 2007 0:30:56 GMT -5
This is the sort of thing that makes a learning nerd like me completely jazzed: I just found out MIT has a large selection of free courses online. Life-long learners from around the world can continue their quest for self-education at their own pace. I haven't had a chance to explore this much yet, but so far it looks awesome. I'm less than a year out of college, and I already miss the excitement of learning in a college class structure. Here's the link: ocw.mit.edu/index.html |
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Post by Dominique on Feb 22, 2007 0:44:25 GMT -5
It does look awesome, I only wish I had time to add more to my workload. I'm starting to wish there were extra days in the week! At the moment though I'm really looking for a course in shorthand somewhere, my university doesn't offer it and I'm looking for a competitive edge against the thousands of other university students who want to be journalist, the Sydney Morning Herald cadet applications open in July/August and I will be competing against thousands of people for about five positions  So maybe they will have one, I'll have to check it out, thank's for the link. If they don't have shorthand I will definately pick something else up when my schedule frees. |
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Feb 22, 2007 9:21:56 GMT -5
Is shorthand some typing course??
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Feb 22, 2007 12:05:58 GMT -5
Shorthand is a written language that uses symbols and abbreviation type things so that you can write at the speed of hearing. It's great for notes and it used to be essential for secretaries who had letters dictated to them. I think it looks sort of like arabic writing, but it is a great way to get as much down as possible. The symbols are for whole words, so in that aspect, it's like chinese characters, but they don't look Chinese.
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Post by Dominique on Feb 22, 2007 15:29:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I did a search for one by correspondence or online tutorials last night, but there seem to be none anywhere without going to classes in like Melbourne or something. Which is weird since my teacher said my local TAFE offers it.
A lot of reporters use it when they don't have a tape recorder
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Feb 23, 2007 9:16:36 GMT -5
Ah, Steno  In Germany there are so-called adult education centres though they aren´t for adults only. They offer shorthand and typing courses. I took two semesters of Spanish a couple of years ago. |
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Post by gilmoreren on Feb 23, 2007 16:55:50 GMT -5
Looks cool.
I'm looking to learn web design and DTP things, wonder if there's online courses for that...
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Feb 23, 2007 21:44:04 GMT -5
Looks cool. I'm looking to learn web design and DTP things, wonder if there's online courses for that... I'm not sure if MIT has online classes for that sort of stuff, but I know there are some out there - free too. My mom knows the links, I'll ask her to email them to me. |
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Post by gilmoreren on Feb 24, 2007 6:52:29 GMT -5
Looks cool. I'm looking to learn web design and DTP things, wonder if there's online courses for that... I'm not sure if MIT has online classes for that sort of stuff, but I know there are some out there - free too. My mom knows the links, I'll ask her to email them to me. Thanks, you rock |
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Post by ItalianLaneGirl on Apr 29, 2008 18:47:26 GMT -5
Just saw this thread ---- This is so cool!
Have any of you downloaded any classes from the site?
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rosemint
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by rosemint on Apr 30, 2008 11:06:30 GMT -5
WOW, haven't been here in a while and bang, there it is. This was what I was looking for! I'm interested in so many things but I can only study for one thing here in college. Thanks for all the info! You rock |
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bookworm
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by bookworm on May 1, 2008 14:21:04 GMT -5
That's awesome! Ugh, why didn't I know about this earlier?!
I'm very tempted to download a class or two, something in the Humanities like anthropology, because I have more than enough science as it is..
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Post by ItalianLaneGirl on May 1, 2008 14:28:16 GMT -5
I was thinking about the Physics or Math classes! Seriously - I'm not kidding!
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Post by Carma on May 2, 2008 9:45:34 GMT -5
hmm, interesting |
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thenephilim
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by thenephilim on May 3, 2008 13:36:38 GMT -5
This is cool, I'll have ti look more closely at the classes offered and pick one!
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In Germany there are so-called adult education centres though they aren´t for adults only. They offer shorthand and typing courses. I took two semesters of Spanish a couple of years ago.
