Some colleges and universities offer many online courses for free or very low cost. The online course materials are identical to what's used in the classes at the schools, and lectures are either recorded from actual classes or are the same material the professors present to a class. For some of them the professors will answer questions e-mailed to them.
What you don't get is a diploma or a degree. For the free or low cost you get a "Certificate of Completion". If you want a degree or diploma then that costs more and there are specific sets of classes one has to take, but it's still far less costly than attending the classes in person. MIT was one of the first to do this, and still does. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm On Sunday, February 16, 2020, 11:23:53 AM MST, N <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are plenty and quite many scientific articles available for free on > > Internet. Universities at least have some check, quite often a written > > Exam before course could be passed, a little hard to check what kind of > > books/articles someone have read and even more so what they might have > > learned. > > There is a difference between knowing something and passing exams. Who > would you trust more? Someone who is self taught and has recent > experience or someone who passed the exam 10 years ago and has never > touched the subject since? Depends if they have read the necessary literature, even a welder or carpenter need to read some literature (read a little bit about welding), if they still have books they might learn fast again. In Sweden I think it is possible to get into university using proven knowledge/competence but it seldom or never happen. > If you need proof of someone's competence then test results are indeed a > reasonable indicator, as long as those results are relatively recent. In > that case there is nothing stopping the self taught person from taking > the tests. Anyone who passes the test has the required knowledge to pass > the test, no matter how they learned it. Of course you are relying on > the test asking the right questions. If you learned once it will be must faster next time. Used Java in programming course at University, read books about C/C++ and used it professionally then needed for 10 years, many of the concepts are similar but I had not been able to learn without reading the books. > > Met this attitude then working, "it will all be fine if we just get the > > project". > > No, that's just putting your head in the sand and hoping for the best. Major problem is ass sticking out in comfortable height. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
