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We've reached the final question in our planning process for meeting our learning goal:
- What resources are available to help me meet this goal?
We've already gotten our support team on board and we've talked about our time. Both of these types of resources are critical - and it's why I separate them out from the actual physical resources. Today we're going start our look at resources for your learning goal.
Today is a bit more philosophical and tomorrow we'll start getting into the practical.
I'm going to divide resources into three categories - low/no cost, small budget, big budget.
I do this for two reasons.
The first is, I want to clearly demonstrate you can meet most learning goals without spending a lot of money. What we often trade off for money is time. If you have more time than money, then you may have no choice but to go the low/no cost or small budget routes. If you have more money than time then you can afford to go the bigger budget route. I also want to note that from an equity perspective, what I've just outlined here is one of the biggest problems with education systems across the world - we make the most effective systems for advancing people into well paying jobs some of the slowest and most time-consuming - further delaying ability to get into high paying jobs.
The second reason I structure the list in this way is to show the value you can get from lower cost resources because my personal opinion is that some of the highest cost popular online courses are valuable only from the network of people they provide to you. The content of those courses is not why you buy them and I think it is important for course creators to be honest about that with learners and potential learners.
Stop back tomorrow and we'll start to dive into the list of resources.