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Keep Learning - Now Cheaper & Easier!

One of the ways that you get and keep better jobs is that you know stuff. That you are highly educated in things that matter and you know how to use those on the job. Having a degree is a way to verify that yes, you do have the stuff it takes. Unfortunately for many of us there is obstacles. Time, family obligations, money, etc. Those all can get in your way and keep you from learning.

However, with a little determination, you can learn new things. The Internet is chock full of courses and tutorials on all sorts of things. And now, through an initiative called OpenCourseWare at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) you can download the exact courses that their students take. Lecture notes and all. So in effect you can learn everything you would if you were there as a paying student. Devote yourself and there is no limit to what you could learn doing this.

Don’t particularly want to learn the courses at MIT? Maybe you’d prefer Yale. Or John’s Hopkins. There are now over 100 schools that are putting their courses online. Some of the material can be found through Apple’s iTunes software. Others through YouTube.

Of course, there is no homework that you have to do, no football or basketball team you can try out for, not fraternities or sororities, and sadly, there is no graduation since you can’t get a degree for your efforts.

Should the fact that you get no credit stop you? No! If you need to learn things learn them any way you can. If you can afford and have the time to devote to classes, either full time or in the evenings, then do that and get the credit, but the fact that you learn things will build your self-confidence. And that self-confidence will show on the job. It will not hurt if you take courses that directly apply to your job, but learning - and learning anything - will make you a better person.

So check it out. Learn and better yourself! You’ll be glad you did!