[GTALUG] TPL teaching Linux

[Marc Lijour]

Kudos!

Is that Stephen Abram leading this? I would not be surprised.

On 2019-02-28 9:58 p.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk 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...
>
> -- 
> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
> @evanleibovitch or @el56
>
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