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    <title>Good Content is Just the Beginning</title>
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    <published>2012-01-26T20:48:45Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-27T17:51:07Z</updated>

    <summary>Josh talks about the relationship between great content and great courses.</summary>
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        <name>Josh Nutzman</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4790</uri>
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        Josh talks about the relationship between great content and great courses.
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<entry>
    <title>Constructionism in Educational Technology</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/12/second-thoughts-on-codecademy.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.47646</id>

    <published>2011-12-29T16:05:52Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-14T16:57:08Z</updated>

    <summary>Scott Gray expands on his previous post concerning Codecademy and the future of elearning.</summary>
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        <name>Scott Gray</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2544</uri>
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        Scott Gray expands on his previous post concerning Codecademy and the future of elearning.
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<entry>
    <title>My Thoughts on Codecademy</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/12/my-thoughts-on-codecademy.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.47641</id>

    <published>2011-12-28T03:14:21Z</published>
    <updated>2012-01-12T18:30:28Z</updated>

    <summary>Creator and director of the O&apos;Reilly School of Technology, Scott Gray, discusses the state of tech journalism, education, as well as his thoughts on the future and Codeacademy.</summary>
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        <name>Scott Gray</name>
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        Creator and director of the O&apos;Reilly School of Technology, Scott Gray, discusses the state of tech journalism, education, as well as his thoughts on the future and Codeacademy.
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<entry>
    <title>Yes OST students, there is a Georgia M.</title>
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    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.47557</id>

    <published>2011-12-03T03:35:09Z</published>
    <updated>2011-12-08T20:22:42Z</updated>

    <summary>About OST Student Support Specialist, Georgia M., for all the skeptics out there who marvel at her amazing feats of &quot;customer hospitality.&quot;</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Kerry Beck</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/5182</uri>
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        About OST Student Support Specialist, Georgia M., for all the skeptics out there who marvel at her amazing feats of &quot;customer hospitality.&quot;
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<entry>
    <title>A student interview gives insight into how OST works.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/08/a-student-interview-gives-insight-into-how-ost-works.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.47021</id>

    <published>2011-08-26T15:10:25Z</published>
    <updated>2011-08-26T18:25:10Z</updated>

    <summary>Having enrolled in a whopping 19 courses and completed 12 so far,
Student of the Month Charles Daly knows a thing or two about the O&apos;Reilly School of Technology.  Read on to get a feel of what it&apos;s like to be an OST student:</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Trish Gray</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4537</uri>
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        <![CDATA[Having enrolled in a whopping 19 courses and completed 12 so far,
Student of the Month <strong>Charles Daly</strong> knows a thing or two about the O'Reilly School of Technology.  Read on to get a feel of what it's like to be an OST student:]]>
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<entry>
    <title>OST Welcomes Our Newest Instructors</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/08/welcome-to-our-newest.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.47073</id>

    <published>2011-08-22T23:40:34Z</published>
    <updated>2011-08-23T22:27:10Z</updated>

    <summary>OST&apos;s Senior Manager of Course Development, Kerry Butson, shares the details of her exhaustive quest to find the next amazing OST instructor.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Kerry Butson</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/5060</uri>
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        OST&apos;s Senior Manager of Course Development, Kerry Butson, shares the details of her exhaustive quest to find the next amazing OST instructor.
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<entry>
    <title>Behind the Scenes at OST</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/06/behind-the-scenes-at-ost.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.46576</id>

    <published>2011-06-07T15:23:09Z</published>
    <updated>2011-09-06T13:37:45Z</updated>

    <summary>Trent Johnson, the lead systems administrator for OST, gives us the low-down on the recent expansion of OST&apos;s datacenter.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Trent Johnson</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4987</uri>
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        Trent Johnson, the lead systems administrator for OST, gives us the low-down on the recent expansion of OST&apos;s datacenter.
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<entry>
    <title>2011 Seeing Strong Private Sector Job Gains in Technology</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/05/2011-seeing-strong-private-sector-job-gains-in-technology.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.46425</id>

    <published>2011-05-17T19:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2011-05-18T19:52:59Z</updated>

    <summary>Great news in 2011:  The jobs are coming back, and fast.  Are you ready?  In this blog, Trish Gray gives an IT career outlook for the rest of this year, and how you can best take advantage of this year&apos;s job growth. </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Trish Gray</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4537</uri>
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        Great news in 2011:  The jobs are coming back, and fast.  Are you ready?  In this blog, Trish Gray gives an IT career outlook for the rest of this year, and how you can best take advantage of this year&apos;s job growth. 
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<entry>
    <title>Don&apos;t learn recipes, learn how to cook.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/04/dont-learn-recipes-learn-how-to-cook.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.46133</id>

    <published>2011-04-13T15:09:22Z</published>
    <updated>2011-04-26T22:32:47Z</updated>

    <summary>Have you ever watched the TV show on the Food Network called &quot;Chopped?&quot; Each episode features four chefs competing for a $10,000 prize for cooking the best meal, comprised of three dishes: an appetizer, an entrée, and a dessert. One...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Josh Nutzman</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4790</uri>
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        Have you ever watched the TV show on the Food Network called &quot;Chopped?&quot; Each episode features four chefs competing for a $10,000 prize for cooking the best meal, comprised of three dishes: an appetizer, an entrée, and a dessert. One...
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<entry>
    <title>Online Instruction: You Are Not Alone</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/04/online-instruction-you-are-not-alone.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.46085</id>

    <published>2011-04-06T17:56:47Z</published>
    <updated>2011-04-12T22:25:10Z</updated>

    <summary>An O&apos;Reilly School of Technology instructor offers insight into the workings of OST and invites students to &quot;office hours,&quot; to share ways to improve the learning experience.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Lorri Coey</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4825</uri>
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<entry>
    <title>&quot;Useractive Learning&quot; Starts Early</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/03/useractive-learning-starts-early-1.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.45989</id>

    <published>2011-03-17T04:02:22Z</published>
    <updated>2011-03-18T14:11:23Z</updated>

    <summary>One of my first &quot;useractive&quot; learning experiences happened when I was in elementary school, when my class participated in the National Geographic Kids Net acid rain project. </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Josh Nutzman</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4790</uri>
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        One of my first &quot;useractive&quot; learning experiences happened when I was in elementary school, when my class participated in the National Geographic Kids Net acid rain project. 
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<entry>
    <title>PC World review of OST, and my response</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/02/pc-world-review-of-ost-and-my-response.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2011://73.45779</id>

    <published>2011-02-15T23:18:04Z</published>
    <updated>2011-02-16T22:52:23Z</updated>

    <summary>For this blog, I&apos;d like to share with you a recent PC World review of OST by Sharon Machlis, who completed Inroduction to PHP, Perl Programming 1: Introduction to Perl, and PHP/SQL 1: Introduction to Database Programming in 2010 and early 2011.  Here is what she has to say, and my response to her:</summary>
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        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4537</uri>
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        <![CDATA[For this blog, I'd like to share with you a recent PC World review of OST by Sharon Machlis, who completed <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/introphp/">Inroduction to PHP</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/perl1/">Perl Programming 1: Introduction to Perl</a>, and <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/phpsql1/">PHP/SQL 1: Introduction to Database Programming</a> in 2010 and early 2011.  Here is what she has to say, and my response to her:]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Breaking down barriers to learning = faster on-the-job skills</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2010/09/breaking-down-barriers-to-learning-faster-on-the-job-skills.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2010://73.43001</id>

    <published>2010-09-27T17:08:57Z</published>
    <updated>2010-11-11T22:41:45Z</updated>

    <summary>I love getting unsolicited email like this from our students:

&quot;Hello Everyone at OST (especially Kelly),

Just an update...Since I completed the Linux/Unix System Admin Certificate courses, I have received 3 job offers to go to work as a Linux System Administrator. I have accepted one of the offers and I will be starting work next week.&quot;

This email is from Bill McKinley, who enrolled in our Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate in April, and earned his Certificate in June.  </summary>
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        <name>Trish Gray</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4537</uri>
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        <![CDATA[I love getting unsolicited email like this from our students:

"Hello Everyone at OST (especially Kelly),

Just an update...Since I completed the Linux/Unix System Admin Certificate courses, I have received 3 job offers to go to work as a Linux System Administrator. I have accepted one of the offers and I will be starting work next week."

This email is from Bill McKinley, who enrolled in our <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/system-administration.php">Linux/Unix System Administration</a> Certificate in April, and earned his Certificate in June.  ]]>
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<entry>
    <title>New OST Course!  &quot;Python 2:  Getting More Out of Python&quot; by Steve Holden</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2010/09/new-ost-course-python-2-getting-more-out-of-python-by-steve-holden.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2010://73.42884</id>

    <published>2010-09-15T13:56:19Z</published>
    <updated>2011-06-17T02:45:52Z</updated>

    <summary>The O&apos;Reilly School of Technology is excited to announce the release of Python 2: Getting More Out of Python.  This is the second course in the upcoming Python Programming Certificate Series, and until 9/30 you can enroll at 50% off normal tuition.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Trish Gray</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4537</uri>
    </author>
  
    
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        <![CDATA[The O'Reilly School of Technology is excited to announce the release of <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/python2/">Python 2: Getting More Out of Python</a>.  This is the second course in the upcoming <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/upcoming-courses.php">Python Programming Certificate Series</a>, and until 9/30 you can enroll at 50% off normal tuition.]]>
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<entry>
    <title>New OST Course!  &quot;Perl 2: Intermediate Perl&quot; by Peter Scott</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2010/09/new-ost-course-perl-2-intermediate-perl-by-peter-scott.html" />
    <id>tag:blog.oreillyschool.com,2010://73.42883</id>

    <published>2010-09-08T14:02:53Z</published>
    <updated>2011-06-17T02:48:05Z</updated>

    <summary>The O&apos;Reilly School of Technology is excited to announce the release of Perl 2: Intermediate Perl.  This is the second course in the upcoming Perl Programming Certificate Series, and until 9/30 you can enroll at 50% off normal tuition.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Trish Gray</name>
        <uri>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/4537</uri>
    </author>
  
    
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        <![CDATA[The O'Reilly School of Technology is excited to announce the release of <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/perl2/">Perl 2: Intermediate Perl</a>.  This is the second course in the upcoming <a href="http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/upcoming-courses.php">Perl Programming Certificate Series</a>, and until 9/30 you can enroll at 50% off normal tuition.]]>
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