Monday is "Mind" day where we tackle topics related to education and career to here’s yesterday’s post…
My oldest daughter is almost 12. That’s about as long as I have been planning to take a class at a local college. Each semester the course catalog comes in and I peruse it with high hopes of learning about world history! or American literature! or Greek mythology! And then I look at the class times and it all falls apart — Wednesdays at 7pm? Nope, can’t count on my husband being home in time; Fridays at 10? Won’t work — can’t find a babysitter for Friday. And so, each semester, my hopes for higher learning were thwarted until I finally gave up. Figured that would be another chapter for another time.
Well, my husband found a lot of online class opportunities — some for credit, some just for learning. True, you don’t get that social experience where you can be someone other than a mother for a few hours a week (a 45-year-old co-ed in an Photosynthesis class — hot!) but you still get some brain stimulation and an alternative to reading parenting books and book club books. This is what we found…
UniversalClass.com: lots of online courses from Accounting to Yoga, starting at about $35/course and going up to $189/year for unlimited courses.
OnlineCourses.net: free courses from top universities.
eLearners.com: good courses, some great schools but it looks a little pricier — many courses didn’t list fees but one was listed as $631. Big difference. May be toward undergraduate degree.
There are plenty more listings — some more specific to subject matter, some for particular schools.
Now the world of education awaits you! At 5am — midnight — naptime — after the 2am feeding! OK, now that would be ambitious…
