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It's about critical mass and how it is in the interest of PMPM.StackExchange.com fans to recruit more new PM fans ... numbers matter and NEW, zealous recruits matter even more.

I have not done enough, but I am trying to use every decent opportunity I find to strongly and bluntly suggest looking into MOOCs and virtual classrooms and other fora like the PM and Math and Stats fora on StackExchange ... not just for project management ... but for ALL other serious training as well.

Sustaining any educational community around any topic requires "critical mass" and increasingly it is becoming apparent that geographically-located or other traditional forms of higher and specialized education are simply TOO EXPENSIVE and worse than that, they are TOO UNRESPONSIVE to changing needs (eg schedules that do not afford the luxury of having one's butt in a seat).

The single most important skill for any professional to master is to learn how to learn independently, without being guided at every step [as in a traditional classroom]. No one anywhere in the world can afford to endure and support the constraints of the traditional classroom any more.

It is time to get smarter about education and to accelerate the migration ... that means taking responsibility for recruiting and stepping up to do more to evangelize those things that work ... the alternative is not very pretty...

It's about critical mass and how it is in the interest of PM fans to recruit more PM fans.

I have not done enough, but I am trying to use every decent opportunity I find to strongly and bluntly suggest looking into MOOCs and virtual classrooms and other fora like the PM and Math and Stats fora on StackExchange ... not just for project management ... but for ALL other serious training as well.

Sustaining any educational community around any topic requires "critical mass" and increasingly it is becoming apparent that geographically-located or other traditional forms of higher and specialized education are simply TOO EXPENSIVE and worse than that, they are TOO UNRESPONSIVE to changing needs (eg schedules that do not afford the luxury of having one's butt in a seat).

The single most important skill for any professional to master is to learn how to learn independently, without being guided at every step [as in a traditional classroom]. No one anywhere in the world can afford to endure and support the constraints of the traditional classroom any more.

It is time to get smarter about education and to accelerate the migration ... that means taking responsibility for recruiting and stepping up to do more to evangelize those things that work ... the alternative is not very pretty...

It's about critical mass and how it is in the interest of PM.StackExchange.com fans to recruit more new PM fans ... numbers matter and NEW, zealous recruits matter even more.

I have not done enough, but I am trying to use every decent opportunity I find to strongly and bluntly suggest looking into MOOCs and virtual classrooms and other fora like the PM and Math and Stats fora on StackExchange ... not just for project management ... but for ALL other serious training as well.

Sustaining any educational community around any topic requires "critical mass" and increasingly it is becoming apparent that geographically-located or other traditional forms of higher and specialized education are simply TOO EXPENSIVE and worse than that, they are TOO UNRESPONSIVE to changing needs (eg schedules that do not afford the luxury of having one's butt in a seat).

The single most important skill for any professional to master is to learn how to learn independently, without being guided at every step [as in a traditional classroom]. No one anywhere in the world can afford to endure and support the constraints of the traditional classroom any more.

It is time to get smarter about education and to accelerate the migration ... that means taking responsibility for recruiting and stepping up to do more to evangelize those things that work ... the alternative is not very pretty...

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markbruns
markbruns
  • 1.3k
  • 6
  • 4

It's about critical mass and how it is in the interest of PM fans to recruit more PM fans.

I have not done enough, but I am trying to use every decent opportunity I find to strongly and bluntly suggest looking into MOOCs and virtual classrooms and other fora like the PM and Math and Stats fora on StackExchange ... not just for project management ... but for ALL other serious training as well.

Sustaining any educational community around any topic requires "critical mass" and increasingly it is becoming apparent that geographically-located or other traditional forms of higher and specialized education are simply TOO EXPENSIVE and worse than that, they are TOO UNRESPONSIVE to changing needs (eg schedules that do not afford the luxury of having one's butt in a seat).

The single most important skill for any professional to master is to learn how to learn independently, without being guided at every step [as in a traditional classroom]. No one anywhere in the world can afford to endure and support the constraints of the traditional classroom any more.

It is time to get smarter about education and to accelerate the migration ... that means taking responsibility for recruiting and stepping up to do more to evangelize those things that work ... the alternative is not very pretty...