Online Classes — on your own time…
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…