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Can youtube STEM videos from universities replace higher learning?
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Just_another_Dave:
In case you are interested in higher education but you can’t attend college, there are several online universities (as well as other organizations providing official technician degrees). Some of them offer completely online degrees and the total cost is usually lower than the one for traditional universities. For example, studying a technician degree online in Spain at a private institution has a total cost of around 2000 euros (it takes 2 years to complete it) and, as far as I know, you can apply to them even if you don’t live in Europe

The Open University from UK is also a quite well known option for studying online degrees and it also accepts students from other countries

However, most countries I’m aware of don’t require having a degree on electronics engineering to work in this field and nowadays there are really good online resources made by universities that can help you get started. In addition to that, most of them have public listings of the reference books they use and there is also a list on good ones in the EEVBlog wiki. In the end, engineering is learned by practice, so the most important thing is to start designing circuits and debugging them

Edit: Just to clarify my answer, there are many types of technical jobs and some of them are more suitable for self-students than others. Controlling a nuclear reactor is hard and your country might require you to have a degree to get that job due to the risk it involves. However, there are technical jobs in which self-students aren’t that uncommon, like programming and maintaining websites for small companies or repairing mobile phones, as experience can be more important in them than theoretical knowledge. Self-studying an engineering can be hard due to the lack of help if you don’t understand something, specially when advanced calculus is involved, so achieving it will require a lot of self-discipline and investing in lab equipment to be able to put in practice the acquired knowledge
olkipukki:
You can get EE master from Stanford almost online that literally watching online classes and sitting same exams regardless where are you from.

https://online.stanford.edu/programs/electrical-engineering-ms-degree

Of course, you will need either a sponsor (aka employer, used to be only option) or pay privately, and you can reckon it would cost in $50K-$60 range...
Alternatively, a financial aid (I believe US only)

Pre-COVID time, it solved only and only issues to remove physical obstacle to uni and time allocation at expense of  -  speak to classmates, participate on site activities and access to labs.
At the moment, most traditional universities around the world still 'working' in a remote mode


olkipukki:

--- Quote from: Beamin on October 09, 2021, 05:15:06 am ---Shouldnt you be able to use this as "relevant experience" when looking for a technical job?

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Sure, it can, why not if somehow related to your main activities.



--- Quote from: Beamin on October 09, 2021, 05:15:06 am ---ow after about 50 hours of learning

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Otherwise, how you will "sell" two full-time weeks of academic study as "relevant experience" to potential employer?
rstofer:
There are lots of sites with tutorial videos.  Khan Academy is excellent as is 3blue1brown.  But these tutorials aren't necessarily in the proper order for a class.  CalcWorkshop is excellent and properly ordered.  It costs somewhat north of $100 per year and how much you get done in a year is up to you.  I paid for a couple of years to help my grandson.  He now has a BS in Applied Mathematics and is headed to grad school next semester.

Junior college level classes (first 2 years) are often quite good and reasonably inexpensive.  Grants are available as is tuition aid.  If you register and get a .edu email account, MATLAB is free!

Important resources:

Symbolab.com for problem solving - if you subscribe (costs money), you get more detailed solutions.  Yes, I subscribe...
Desmos.com for graphing

For fun:

Numberphile.com
Computerphile.com

Tools:

MATLAB (student version (FREE) or personal version (costs money))
Octave (MATLAB workalike - up to a point.
rstofer:

--- Quote from: olkipukki on October 11, 2021, 03:00:19 pm ---You can get EE master from Stanford almost online that literally watching online classes and sitting same exams regardless where are you from.

https://online.stanford.edu/programs/electrical-engineering-ms-degree


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Stanford was televising classes to their local students and non-registered students at various companies clear back in '78.
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