On 2014-11-28 2:25 PM, Hsi-Kai (Kai) Yang wrote:
Laurent Gatt wrote
"When we started the 'Advanced R development' course, some participant
thought that it was a follow-up of the 'Beginners R course' and joined
despite the description stating requirement that were clearly (for use,
at least) not met after two days of introductory programming
course"
SWC might want to consider fee charges on "advanced" courses.
My understanding is one of SWC's missions is to promote *basic*
software skills. For "advanced" skills, learners either have to pay or
figure out by themselves. That's fair and a common practice in the
real world. Most MOOC courses are on introductory levels. Many free
software packages or services have *pricing* schemes.
On transition from SWC to SCF, it might be a good timing to tune
business model.
-kai
We've considered it, but there are already a lot of for-pay training
courses out there. If Software Carpentry instructors want to run things
at commercial rates, we encourage them to do so (see
http://software-carpentry.org/faq.html#commercial-offerings), but we're
going to stick to being as accessible as possible - the $20/head
registration fee we typically recommend is mostly there to discourage
no-shows.
Thanks,
Greg
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Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected]
Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
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