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Monday, October 8, 2012
Distance Learning for Personal Enrichment - Jason Carr, Wired Cosmos
The great thing about distance learning for personal enrichment activities is that you can choose the level to which you want to commit yourself. You may find classes offered through prestigious universities that come with an equally prestigious charge per credit. You are just as likely to find a course offering at a minimal charge or even at no cost to you. You can simply audit a class just to get an overview of a subject you’re interested in or you can devote time and money to deep diving into a subject to the extent that you become somewhat of an expert in your own right. When you’re doing it for yourself, the choices and the commitments are yours alone. Personal enrichment isn’t just about what distance learning and the Internet can do for you. It can also be about what you can give back to the world around you.
http://wiredcosmos.com/2012/10/03/distance-learning-for-personal-enrichment/