nedjelja, studenoga 16, 2014

Online Courses

I've been doing a lot of ESRI online courses lately as part of the UNIGIS program, and I have to say - they're really good. There are two basic types of courses offered by ESRI - instructor-led courses and online courses. Being in Ecuador, only the online courses are available to me, though I hope to someday be able to have a live course too.


The online courses are nothing to complain about, though. Lots of useful topics with a good theoretical introduction, often solidifying the basics and then followed by well-explained exercises - a good combination between theory and practice. So far, my favorites are the 3D visualization technique courses and site selection courses.

Sometimes, though, it can be difficult to know the best order to take them in, and then I end up doing a more advanced course first or repeating some topics, but that's not such a big problem. After all, repetitio mater studiorum est!
I may not have gone where I wanted to go, but I'm sure I ended up where I needed to be.