I am a high school teacher, and I am quite happy to see the availability of some of these courses.
I have a student taking the Intermediate Web Development course from Udacity, and it has had a significant impact on this student. He is learning much more quickly than he could if I was directing his content, but he is still benefiting greatly from having me available to answer questions. To be honest, I am also learning by being exposed to some of what he is doing. For example, I have not used google app engine myself, but I am getting to see how gae compares to heroku, which I am more familiar with.
It is also a good introduction to some of what is expected of people in post-high school education. I definitely intend to steer more students towards some of these courses.
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I am a high school teacher, and I am quite happy to see the availability of some of these courses.
I have a student taking the Intermediate Web Development course from Udacity, and it has had a significant impact on this student. He is learning much more quickly than he could if I was directing his content, but he is still benefiting greatly from having me available to answer questions. To be honest, I am also learning by being exposed to some of what he is doing. For example, I have not used google app engine myself, but I am getting to see how gae compares to heroku, which I am more familiar with.
It is also a good introduction to some of what is expected of people in post-high school education. I definitely intend to steer more students towards some of these courses.