[GTALUG] TPL teaching Linux

[James Medeiros]

This is awesome, thanks for sharing. If anyone else is in Niagara let me
know - I’d be glad to get one of these rolling with our local libraries :)

James

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:58 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> You may be interested to know that there is a new learning concept taking
> hold, in a very unusual context. Libraries around the world are getting
> involved in "leaning circles", in which a group of learners work together
> with each other, online training, library-supplied facilitation staff and
> sporadic involvement by subject experts.
>
> The concept is going global, and different libraries are leading the way
> in different fields. As it turns out, the global leader in Linux learning
> circles is right here at the Toronto Public Library. Toronto and Nairobi
> are the first in the world to be welcoming "new to Linux" attendees who run
> the range from absolute newcomers to people looking to change careers or
> others who are in IT in other realms and want to learn Linux.
>
> The initial run of four-week "Linux Unhatched" circles is just now
> concluding. I audited them at three of the six different branches
> (Keele&Wilson, University at College, Yonge at Eglinton)  at which they were
> held. Response has been great. At the sessions I attended I talked up
> GTALUG as a way for participants to keep their interest after the sessions
> are over and maybe we'll get some new participants as a result.
>
> For its next step, the TPL is offering a 70-hour course on Linux
> Essentials, based on the LPI certificate program of the same name and done
> through the Cisco Networking Academy.
>
> https://www.netacad.com/web/self-enroll/course-799917
>
> If you know anyone interested in Linux, this is a great way to start
> learning...
>
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> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
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