University of Washington Offers Free Web Mini-Courses

Last week the University of Washington offered free mini-courses from the OpenUW ( http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/ .) Courses include Greek Mythology, HTML Basics, and Business Communications.

After you've agreed to the terms of service and registered (registration requires name, zip code, e-mail address, and the confirmation that you're above 13 years old) you'll be given access to the mini-courses. The ones I looked at were multipart discussions of a particular topic, with quizzes at the end of each part and a concluding quiz.

These courses are non-credit and are designed to take just a few hours (though the may take a fast reader considerably less time than that.) They're nothing like an actual credit course or even a good book, but they're nicely designed and impart a digestible amount of information. Worth a look.

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