{"id":5444,"date":"2014-10-25T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2014-10-25T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T15:00:14","slug":"the-great-courses-a-way-to-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5444","title":{"rendered":"The Great Courses – a way to learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently we have begun to\u00a0appreciate the wealth of knowledge found in The Great Courses<\/a>. The reason those last three words are capitalized is because they refer to a company, not your 8th grade biology class – as life changing as that class may have been.<\/p>\n

The Great Courses<\/a> is a company which has chosen to offer an incredible educational experience to those who are not currently enrolled in a university. They take the top 1% of teachers and the votes of participates around the nation and form an engaging learning\u00a0experience. I know\u2026 I know. Nothing can replace a real life teacher. I agree. However, I would rather not have most of my teachers sitting in the back seat of my car, in my deer stand with me, or talking in my ear as I am running.<\/p>\n

The major drawback for me has been the price. If you go to The Great Courses<\/a> website, you can see that the audio and video lectures can be a chunk of change. Granted, they are nothing close to the enrollment in an educational facility today, but they are expensive nonetheless. Our introduction to them as been through audible.com<\/a>, which is much more reasonable.<\/p>\n

I check out their Daily Deal<\/a> every day and have purchased several for under $5. Other ones have cost us $15, or the monthly subscription cost. Either way, I can guarantee that the ones we have listened to have been well worth the cost.<\/p>\n

In a latter post I will post some which we have listened to and which we firmly believe you should listen to as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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