The Teaching Company SALE

[cjsmith]

The Teaching Company produces an excellent line of educational lectures on tape/CD/DVD. I'm a very satisfied customer. Their biology series has taught me an immense amount: the lecturer is organized and concise, and it's never boring.

The only catch is that most of the time these lecture sets are painfully expensive. They make sure to put each course on sale at least once a year, doing a large production run and passing the savings along. The discounts are deep on these sales. Unless you are in a hurry, there's no powerful incentive to pay full price for any of these.

Another thing they do once a year is put all of their science and mathematics courses on sale for three days. That starts now.

Head on over!

I'm picking up statistics this time around. I've never had a formal stats course. (Probability theory, yes, although I can't remember where. Statistics, no.)

Comments

[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me about these! I plowed through a whole lot of them at my library a few years back; this reminds me to dig through their catalogs and see what new stuff they have in. (I loved Garrett Fagan's "Ancient Rome" survey, and I see that now the San Mateo library has another course by him. Glee!)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

We have a few friends we trade with, loaning a course or two to each other for a handwavey number of months. If I had no job, I could happily spend years going through these courses. Science until I get tired of it, then move on to art, history, literature...

[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

With my iPod (and with modern cars having line-in jacks), libraries work quite nicely for me. I check the discs out, I return them a week later, I listen to them sooner or later. (Though now I feel guilty about all the podcasts backed up on my iPod unlistened-to...) In a concession to Ethics, I generally erase the copies I've made after I listen to them... though actually, I don't do that with music I check out from the library, do I? I am full of contradictions.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Humans tend to be, don't we? :-) It actually hadn't occurred to me until I saw your comment that these might be available at local libraries. It can take me ages to go through one, depending on my other workload, so I didn't think of them as library-type stuff. Honestly, the library seems like the better option. How many of these will I ever listen to twice?

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

Science until I get tired of it,

You could get tired of science? ...And to think I've spent all these years convinced I loved you! Why, now I realize I don't even KNOW you!


Seriously, though, my wife and I got a catalog from them recently. We were each interested in several of the courses, but put off by the expense. Knowing they put them on sale with such dramatic mark downs changes things.

I have no doubt this means we'll be ordering from them on a semi-regular basis.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I could, but at least I have a fallback plan. Maybe this should be a personal challenge. Get myself tired of science!

[katestine.livejournal.com]

This is great to hear! I bought Fagan's "Great Battles of the Ancient World" without knowing anything about him, hoping it'd be better performed than the poetry one.

[meep.livejournal.com]

Every course is on sale at least once a year (just not all at the same time).

I favor the history and literature courses. I've bought the science/math ones, but not for me.