[ExI] remote learning

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I am an interesting case as 90% of all my knowledge was learned by myself on my own time. My career is in programming and AI and I did attend university but found that it didn’t help me one bit. Everything I needed for my career was learned for free on the internet before I even graduated high school. The university lectures were so bad compared to the online resources I had been using all my life that when I began to rely on the course materials for learning instead of the internet I felt stupid for the first time in my life. When I switched back completely to self learning, learning became much easier. I don’t even talk about my degree and try not to even mention that I have one because of how worthless it has been for me compared to my self learning ventures. I would have been much farther in life by now had I skipped university altogether. Of course everyone is different but this has been my experience.

> On Oct 11, 2022, at 12:45 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> My son received an invitation to apply for a university I had not heard of, so I researched and discovered it is a new remote learning accredited for granting degrees university.
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> OK then.  Just so ya know what you are buying, no worries.
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> This has me pondering, for I realized the covid lockdown changed everything.  It made us all realize that remote learning is possible and practical.  Many of us or perhaps most, have seen content like this (free, online, excellent) from which you can choose any video and view just a few minutes of it:
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> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5mt-A4w61lknZ9lCsZtBw <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5mt-A4w61lknZ9lCsZtBw>
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> Engineers among us, whooda thunk material of this sophistication and quality would be available free?  I haven’t seen all these, but the Controls Bootcamp is excellent material, better than I had in grad school on that topic.   Steve Brunton is indistinguishable from god.  He’s an engineering god.
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> I am convinced that if a smart motivated prole were to view this kind of video for about a year, she could pass the Engineer In Training EIT exam, and a coupla more years of it, the Professional Engineer’s state boards exams.  I passed the PE on the first try without a master’s degree, with almost no post grad classes.  One is not required to have even a bachelor’s degree.
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> OK then.  So… I have a part 2 for all this, a yuuuge business opportunity.  But will let you comment first.
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> spike
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