This is fantastic! Before going back for my PhD, I taught college, including the groan-inducing "Intro to Computers", where students basically learn Microsoft Office. I'd been a big complaint of mine that the course I was teaching was just filling a checkbox and not necessarily teaching people how to use the computer.
While I think word processing and spreadsheets are prime candidates, things like Access or the level of unnecessary detail that we'd go into on some topics (like formatting to make it look nice) were unneeded and could be better spent on different topics, like researching online and even graphics.
Its refreshing to see something like this that doesn't force any brand to teach the CORE concepts.
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This is fantastic! Before going back for my PhD, I taught college, including the groan-inducing "Intro to Computers", where students basically learn Microsoft Office. I'd been a big complaint of mine that the course I was teaching was just filling a checkbox and not necessarily teaching people how to use the computer.
While I think word processing and spreadsheets are prime candidates, things like Access or the level of unnecessary detail that we'd go into on some topics (like formatting to make it look nice) were unneeded and could be better spent on different topics, like researching online and even graphics.
Its refreshing to see something like this that doesn't force any brand to teach the CORE concepts.