Local classes [Was: Re: O'reilly's learninglab worthwhile?]

[Vaughn Treude]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:11, AZ Pete wrote:
> I've found the same dilemma.  I took an Oracle DB Design course at 
> MCC about a year and a half ago.  Since then all Oracle classes 
> (except for the most beginner levels) have been dropped due to low 
> enrollment.  I even tried taking a Java class at SCC and it too was 
> dropped due to low enrollment.  At the time I took my Oracle class, I 
> spoke with the director of the school and she said that this has been 
> a big problem since the dot-com burst.  There simply aren't enough 
> students enrolling to make it profitable for the school to offer 
> these classes.  One of the other students in my class at the time, 
> mentioned he was has been trying to get into certain Oracle classes 
> for more than a year with no luck.  They just kept dropping the 
> classes.  I thought I'd be able to get take some good Oracle courses 
> for less money by going through the community colleges, but it looks 
> like that's not really an option these days.  It seems one must 
> either do self-study with some books or go to one of those expensive 
> one week "boot camp" type places.
> 
> Peter
> 

Darn!  I was also thinking about taking some Oracle classes.  Otherwise,
there's not much at the community college level I don't know.  I could
certainly teach many of the programming courses.  (As Walter Brennan
used to say "No brag- just fact."  In other words, if I'm old enough to
remember the Real McCoys, I've been writing code a LOOONG time.)

Vaughn

> 
> At 03:48 PM 1/31/2006, you wrote:
> >   The drop in enrollment I believe is valley wide. I took all the 
> > Cisco classes and even became CCNA certified. This did nothing for 
> > my chances at actually attaining employment in IT; I think most 
> > people realize this and just don't bother taking such classes. I am 
> > still employed as a surveyor and am satisfied with being a 
> > Linux/Unix learner for my own personal satisfaction. I have noticed 
> > the web design classes, HTML/Flash/Photoshop ETC. have rather 
> > impressive enrollment at MCC.
> >
> >
> >Mark Jarvis wrote:
> >>Most of the community colleges offer an advanced *nix class, but 
> >>it's hard to get enrollees, so they're often offered only once a 
> >>year. (PVCC offers one spring semester only.)
> >>Computer class enrollment all over the district has been dropping 
> >>the last few semesters. This semester at PVCC, both basic Linux 
> >>classes (CIS126DL) and the advanced Linux class (CIS238) were 
> >>dropped due to too few students signing up for them.
> >>-mj-
> >>Dan Lund wrote:
> >>
> >>>I know there are quite a few beginner unix classes, but are there any
> >>>fairly advanced ones?
> >>>I need to broaden my knowledge....
> >
> >
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