[ExI] remote learning

[Adrian Tymes]

In many technical fields, computer science definitely included, a BS degree
has been compared to a union card: it gives you the ability to get a job
(at least, the higher paying ones) and not much else.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 10:56 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
> 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.
>
> OK then.  Just so ya know what you are buying, no worries.
>
> 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:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5mt-A4w61lknZ9lCsZtBw
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> OK then.  So… I have a part 2 for all this, a yuuuge business
> opportunity.  But will let you comment first.
>
> spike
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