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Fig. 1-Future Benefits of Using This Site


The above is a quick summary of what this site is about-finding free or low cost tutorials for you to use to develop or enhance your work-related skills or to just learn something new. Read more below to find out how these skills can produce the effects depicted on the chart.

Are You an Autodidact?

An autodidact is a self-taught individual. A self-taught individual or self-learner is someone who teaches him or herself about a subject without the aid of a teacher. In doing this, the individual might watch TV, talk to experts, friends, or guidance. The individual is responsible for developing their own skills and finding the resources to do this. (1)

Informal learning is learning that occurs outside of a formal setting like a classroom or degree program. An autodidact is someone who can also learn informally in that he or she learns outside of the classroom or degree program by using resources such as books, family, friends, or experts. If you use the many free tutorials or courses available on the internet to study a subject, you are practicing autodidacticism. Read More

Why should I use these tutorials?

Informal learning is learning that is "semi-structured and occurs in a variety of places, such as learning at home, work, and through daily interactions and shared relationships among members of society."(2) The Internet is an enormous source of informal,non-formal, and learning resources.continued on the Tutorials List Page

These resources are posted by individuals who are skilled in a variety of fields who have taken the time, out of the generosity of their own heart, to teach you what they know and what they have learned.

Some of the resources are invaluable when it comes to developing skills that can be used to give you an advantage in today’s job market or can be used to learn the material you need to start or enhance your own business.

This website provides you with an informal learning environment where you can find information about Internet sites, FREE resources(like wikis, blogs, courses), and other low cost materials (online courses) that you can use to develop new skills or enhance the skills you already have for work, hobby, or personal interests.

Why is there a fish in the Logo for this website?

What does the fish, puzzles, and Jesus have to do with the logo for this website?

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Networked Learning

The process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information and communicating in a way as to support one another's learning. It's sharing and learning information with others who have the same interests as you.(4) This might be done by posting or responding to questions on a forum, creating a personal learning network.

Personal Learning Network

A personal learning network is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment. In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that connection.(5)

OpenCourseware(OCW)

A term applied to course materials created by universities and shared freely with the world via the Internet.()

Social Media

Social Media is media or web or mobile-based technology that connects users to each other for social interaction, information sharing, collaboration, or developing relationships. These technology include blogs, instant messaging, and social networking sites. Sites that are classed as social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, LinkedIn. (11)

Forum

An online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. You can post questions, answer questions, and hold conversations about anything. The forums are usually centered around an area of interest-like Programming, Physics, Accounting, etc...