Unboxing Adult Education

Posted by: Janel on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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Call me goofy if you want, but I think education is a frugal thing. I warned you that I think outside the box... What could be more frugal than developing your powers of reason and judgement to figure out if doing things like shopping at CVS is a good thing for your family? Or learning to cook from scratch to save on the grocery budget? Or taking up a new hobby that eventually becomes a side business? Yup, I say education falls into the category of frugal.

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Although there is great benefit in formal education, some of the best stuff I know was learned in the class room of life. I'm partial to outside the box educational experiences. And because of that, this is my list of resources:

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My all time favorite, and cheap, adult education resource is the Five Fat Files. What? You've never heard of them? You must not read my blog! Shame on you. ;) The FFF are a tool for the process of becoming an expert, on any subject you'd like, cheaply and easily.

Here's the quick and dirty explanation: You pick five topics you're passionate about; get five empty file folders; then you start collecting articles, books and/or snippets by reading or listening to everything you can about your chosen subject areas. In 5 - 10 years, or less if you're really persistent about it, you'll know almost everything there is to know about a subject.

Want to know more? You can hop over to my blog for Five Fat Files and Picking Your FFF, along with all the other stuff I've written about organizing and using them. Enjoy!

I know I haven't even scratched the surface of things for free adult education. What are some of the ways you've chosen to frugally further your education?

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10 Responses to “Unboxing Adult Education”

Mary Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 am

Here in California, there is an online audiobook library for folks who have a library card with a participating library system. Some audiobook sites don’t require the card. Here’s a list from my local library: http://www.santacruzpl.org/online/ebooks/

Also, iTunes U has lots of different universities and schools from which you can download course lectures, guest lectures, and other stuff. UC Berkeley and Stanford’s offerings are particularly good. Some of the schools don’t have much in the way of courseware, but still have lots of information about the schools themselves.

Lisa Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 am

I agree, in terms of education, the web is loaded- the key is finding the good stuff, not the junk- I also have a couple of links your readers might enjoy. Click on my name if you’re interested. It’s part of a free stuff post I did recently.

In terms of libraries, I can’t praise them enough! I live in a small town, but it is part of a consortium of many towns, so we have access to much more than we normally would.

Lisa

Janel Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 am

Thanks Mary. I didn’t know that iTunes offered anything like that. I’ve put off downloading the software because I didn’t feel like I needed it. hmmm. Maybe I’ll change my mind… :) Thanks!

Marsha Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 am

I’ve been utilizing YouTube (being careful of the junk vs. jewel issue) with some good success. I haven’t done much there with regards to academic subjects – although there is doubtless some to be found – but more things like sewing techniques, music theory stuff and so forth.

I didn’t know about the MIT thing – thanks for that, it looks like a great resource. I don’t know how much I personally will get out of it but just the other day my biomechanical engineer husband mentioned that he’d wished he’d paid more attention in his undergraduate Fluid Dynamics course. MIT to the rescue!

Lori Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am

I’d like to add “the local library” to your list! I recently found that one of the nearby libraries offers Rosetta Stone courses (language learning) for FREE. I signed up for a library card online, and when it came in the mail I was able to log on to their site and use their software. I get to learn a language FREE. And I can do it at home and on my schedule too!

Rosetta Stone has a program specifically for libraries, so if you want to learn a language, check around first. The library doesn’t even have to be nearby, as long as they allow you to get a library card.

Dialectically_Yours Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:43 am

I have to add my own opinions of ‘adult education’ as an aspect of frugality: Education is FOR LIFE. it’s life, really, and the *attitude* of following your own interests will spill over into EVERYTHING you do, even when it’s not directly related to your areas of ‘study’.

Just pick something you WANT to know. As I told a friend who asked why I was picking up a new language as my fortieth birthday approached: “If I don’t work on this,I’m *still* going to be a year older next year, so why not ADD something to my life?”

Looby Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 12:30 am

I’d like to add one of my favourite websites (for just about anything) BBC. They have links to information online, some are obviously UK based but they also have some nice beginners language classes on their website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning
As an aside, from their homepage you can also find radio shows for free and some great recipes.

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Sean Says:
June 18th, 2008 at 11:40 am

I would really like to have a station at public libraries or a swap club or change in licensing so that you could lease software. Let’s say you want to learn Photoshop but you’re poor. I remember going to uppercrust colleges in my area and they had all licenses to all databases and software but my college did not. I think it should be available for little nerdy kids and not for when you reach college. Too late for mellon.

Sean Says:
June 18th, 2008 at 11:52 am

I found some great courses on youtube.com Strip and Eight minute calculus was the funniest but I think I understood it from a few different angles. It was either that or I was going to join a gang.

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