Oh man. The net has been a godsend for this. I did most of my annual CEU courses online as a nurse for 23 years—those subjects that were purely academic. I did a couple of CEUs meant for cops and teachers using friends’ accounts. Some schools give promotional freebies so professionals will use them. I’m curious about what they are taught. Took a tutorial in photoshop. Am doing piano now. It’s quite rigorous and it is timed and graded. Did an architectural drawing course a few years ago to train in perspective.
I’ve taken history courses from both Harvard and Yale. They have been allowing the public to audit some of their courses for free for some time now—So, I can say that I’ve studied at Harvard and Yale! LOL. Johns Hopkins as well. I’ve attended a couple of online writer’s conferences over the years. I’ve done a few others that I can’t recall at the moment.
Oh, and I learn magic tricks from YouTube all the time, if that counts. I volunteer at a local clinic here, giving inoculations to children from time to time. They love my magic tricks. LOL. Then ZING! Painless intramuscular. They always have such a shocked look on their faces. Just call me painless.
I don’t think the writer’s conferences were all that useful, but they were interesting and I did learn a bit about the marketing game. But it was mostly for wannabees who want to talk about writing more than they want to write. The courses I’ve actually paid for were well worth it. But I don’t do these things to enhance my resume anymore. Those days are over, thank god. I do these things for me now.