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These sites are pretty awesome. I signed up for a few classes already and this class may interest some of you. It's actually ran by a professor from Penn in the department I worked for while going to school there. Best of all, it's all free.

https://www.coursera.org/course/gamification

And if this isn't your cup of tea, there's a ton of other classes you can take so I'm sure there will be something in there that will interest you.

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Thats pretty cool i may do this one

https://www.coursera.org/course/growtogreatness

Anyone ever use this website? It offers free online courses on a wide range of topics from different universities. Think I might take a course and try it out....

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Dude, I've been posting about this ages ago. Sign up for the Gamification class. It's starting soon. It's pretty interesting. I think there's already a thread on this too which I think I'm the only one that's posted in.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Nice. I never saw the original post and it was a recommended link one of my work websites. I signed up for this:

https://www.coursera.org/course/inforiskman

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it all sounds good and all, but my brain has reached maximum capacity. i can no longer learn anything new.

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Swear to me.

I took an online Security+ Certification class and failed the test at the end. By 2 questions. My work paid for it when they were burning some extra cash.
Looks like similar shit in that class Jeff. Mine was 5 days, 8 hours a day. It was a lot of info to process.

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These are more like semester length courses, and you can go more at your own pace.

Oh yeah that was my point that I totally didn't make clear. haha
It would definitely be better in a situation like this.

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Yea, I'm doing those for A+ and Network+ later in the year paid by work, but this one is 10 weeks long.

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Your brain is like any other muscle. It gets stronger the more you exercise it. If you don't keep learning stuff, it will just whittle away.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Exactly.... gotta train the brain.

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man they got a guitar one on there starting the end of april. might have to finally give this a go haha

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I just signed up for this. We'll see if I stick with it or not. Would be nice to have that on the resume.

https://www.coursera.org/#course/progfun

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

I looked through some of these and at the moment there is nothing I want to take. I wish there was some kind of HTML5 course or something. I thought about the programming class they're offering that requires zero code knowledge but I want to do something web related for my job. Also, wish there were some better Art courses but oh well. Would love to take a perspective course or something. I'll just have to keep an eye out on this site because it seems cool.

I'm surprised there's nothing on HMTL5. Look on Udacity. They might have something.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

neat. coursera's stuff is tablet friendly. that will make this easier.

So what happens if I sign up and don't commit to it? Does it hurt me at all?

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
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- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

nope. it just shows that you haven't completed it. maybe after you do it enough times they yell at you? idk.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

I'd love to take some new courses, but I'm such a lazy fuck I know there's about an 75% chance I'll quit after about 2 weeks.

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

My first course started yesterday and I actually finished all of week one's assignments last night. However, it was mostly an introduction and basic background, so I assume every week won't be that easy. It was about 10 video lectures from an actual college class with the longest around 20 minutes. The average video was about 7-8 minutes which is good for people with short attention spans (like myself). During the video, a question or two pops up to quiz you on what you are watching. There is another quiz you take at the end of the week after you watched all the lectures and they give you three attempts to take it. I already knocked out the first one, but the discussion forum has been active so I've been checking that out until week two starts. I'm gonna try to stick this one out until the end....

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Do it, you'll feel good afterwards.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

i'll have to check this out.

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Did you guys start your classes yet? Mine started this Monday. It's pretty interesting so far. I might fall a bit behind when I go on vacation though.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "