The entire family – or at least those in the family who are
above the age of 12 – started taking classes this summer over at edx.org. You
can take a course for free and sometimes you get some sort of certificate of
completion, or you can pay money and earn actual college credit. There are all
kinds of courses offered by different universities from all over the world. I
started taking a grammar course with our 13 year old mainly to get an idea of
how it works and to be able to bug him about assignment deadlines and find out
what he is learning. It is offered by the University of Queensland and is
pretty good so far. The accents are cute! Prof. Husband is taking an astronomy
class, and both boys are taking a course on super heroes (historical). Later
this month they will start an AP physics course. We used to use Khan Academy
quite a bit, and the boys went through the geometry program there, but we haven’t
looked at it for a while. There are so many good educational sites, and so many
great things to learn out there! Just thinking about it makes me feel
overwhelmed.
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