12 Days of New Years - Lifelong Learning

Friday, January 15, 2016
My first self-improvement goal for 2016 is lifelong learning.

I've been an on-again/off-again student for many years. I currently have something like 320 credit hours, and an Associates degree in general education, but after Moe died, I found I had little energy for continuing education. I just couldn't bring myself to care.

So in 2016 I wanted to reinvest some time in learning new things, without having to deal with the expense and rigidity of college curricula. Getting a Bachelors degree at this late date isn't going to get me anything on a professional level, so I see no reason not to suit myself.

I've decided to use The Great Courses to continue my education. They have hundreds of titles, many of which appeal to me, they provide a format I use anyway, and they're far more affordable than upper division college courses. I've added a new category to my What I'm Reading page to include this endeavor, and will listen to one hour a day of my current course. I still intend to read non-fiction in addition to my normal pleasure reading, but I want to use The Great Courses to address specific interests where I feel I have a gap.

By the end of the year, I should have completed about 30 courses. Go, me.

1 comments:

Random Michelle K said...

I'll be very curious as to how you like these.

I love learning, but found that for me, audio just doesn't work well--I've listened to some marvelous non-fiction audio books (I'm a huge fan of the Bill Moyer series) but I don't retain what I hear the same way, and generally have to listen to non-fiction an audio book multiple times before I really get all of it.

So I can't want to read how it works out for you. :)