O'Reilly Opens Online Tech School

bl8n8r writes "The popular book author has started the O'Reilly School of Technology which offers online training and certification. "The O'Reilly School of Technology and the University of Illinois have partnered to offer Certificates of Professional Development in information technology and related skills." Among classes offered are Linux/Unix administration, Open Source coding, Java coding, C Programming and others."

I vote 'redundant'

[Anonymous Coward]

Now will you mod me Funny, Insightful, Redundant, or Flamebait?

I vote for "Redundant" because someone else posted the same "joke" [slashdot.org] a full 30 minutes before you did. It's one thing to not read the articles before posting. It's another to not do a quick scan of the comments before posting.

I've made my case. Now it's in the Hands of the Mods.

O'Reilly has been offering this for years

[poboxbot]

This "school" has been around for at least two or three years. Same partnership between O'Reilly and the University of Illinois, same courses, same cost, same certificates.

They just rebranded it "O'Reilly School of Technology."

Re:CEU? Why not for credit?

[scott_mills_gray]

Hi, I'm the director of this thing. Our goal is to eventually become accredited, but to do so we'll have to get some rules changed. There are a lot of rules that exist either because of the legacy of the classroom, or because of the limitations of the first generation of Learning Management Systems (LMS companies like Blackboard lobbied to get implemented.