Me, I find that the momentum of a class tends to help me learn the most - it's the combination of scheduling, having structured problems to work on with deadlines, and having the instructor for questions and in-depth explanations. Plus you usually get access to a decent computer system with a full-powered version of the software installed.
CBT is more like a guided tour - it is OK for learning what features exist but I don't find myself recalling that much in-depth material afterwards. It has to be a pretty good CBT course to beat a good book.
And a not-to-be-discounted feature of a university: you *meet* people. Then you all go out into the world and network with each other. NU may have some good job resources (if they let the night students at them)
At 09:46 AM 1/3/2004 -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
Does it make sense for me to proceed with the NU class with the hopes I'll learn from the ground-up, or should I cancel it (class starts Sat, Jan 10 and runs 11 weeks, each class is 8:30 - 5) and pursue computer-based training (aka/or self-paced) of Intro to SQL and Intro to Oracle 9i, and even CBT for the NU classes, and see how things go?
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