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Oct 30, 2017, 03:01 AM
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Due to not being able to go back to college for...a very long time, I have taken up for the past like...year or so doing free online courses that are offered as a means to build up my knowledge and feel like I am succeeding in something.
Do any of you do this too? For me this is my school and every Tuesday for four hours I do my lessons and then I do the school work through out of the week, etc.
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Oct 31, 2017, 01:55 AM
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I haven't due to lack of time, but wish I did have time. I think it's a great way to get back into the grove of learning without the financial pressure.
I've looked at edx and coursera. Do you use one of those? I've been trying to get my daughter to try it since she's struggled with college due to her MI.
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Nov 01, 2017, 12:40 AM
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I have done both Edx and Coursea. As well as a few other sites, which once I can get my school orientated chrome browser to open I will tell you.
I think it would be good for your daughter though. I had to drop out of college a few years ago, because of a psychotic/mental breakdown that I just could not do it anymore, so since then I found these online courses and just decided that I would do this to keep my knowledge up, because my brain was obsessing over the fact that I NEED to do school, so this was the way to make it shut up a bit. Though, I wish I had someone to be like my "teacher", but this has been really good.
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Nov 01, 2017, 01:54 AM
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I like both of them, and they have some subject matter that I am really interested in. I do think it would be good for my daughter. She tried college the fall of 2016 and ended up having to take medical leave from school when she was hospitalized and tried again this fall but ended up dropping out.
I'm definitely interested in the other ones you've used too.
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"Do you know what’s really scary? You want to forget something. Totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can’t go away, you see. And… and it follows you around like a ghost." ~ A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon) (2003) "I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I’ve always felt that I wasn’t a member of any particular group." ~ Anne Rice |
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Nov 01, 2017, 02:12 AM
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I recently listened to a podcast about... computer-enhanced learning, or however it's called, and apparently it depends on the person. Some don't do so well without supervision and a person explaining things. Others do much better than they would in a regular educational setting. I feel that, based on what you've written, you're likely in the second category.
For what it's worth, I probably would have been, too, but I pretty much didn't have a choice. Somehow finished college, in a completely broken state, but have been studying on my own voraciously ever since. I think I prefer textbooks, because videos and audio go too slowly (although I see that you have dyslexia which probably wouldn't help). |
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