Microsoft Virtual Academy - All Comments

re: Developers and Designers Join Forces April 24 and 25

Emmanuel Odenyire — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:45:42 GMT

I never attended but I hope I can access the recordings.Big up to the team

re: Developers and Designers Join Forces April 24 and 25

Eder Raunaimer Monfre — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:36:34 GMT

will attend for sure, excellent post. tks Matthew

re: Hello Microsoft Virtual Academy! How Do You Want To Learn?

Audible Designs — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:12:21 GMT

Hands on in the recording studio would be my preference!

re: Windows App Developers: Save the Date for Our Next C# Jump Start, May 2

Frank Gartland — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:33:41 GMT

@mrpaulb -- Thanks for the feedback! Always glad to see you online during Jump Starts, see you next time!

@David -- Absolutely. You should be sure to watch that course before this one. Jerry and Daren are a phenomenal team and I'm sure you'll enjoy the learning experience. Additionally, it will help you a ton when trying to grasp the concepts for this course on May 2... Here's the link: www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/.../programming-in-c.

See you online!

re: Windows App Developers: Save the Date for Our Next C# Jump Start, May 2

David — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:08:54 GMT

Hi everyone _has #70-483 programming with c# been covered already ?

re: Windows App Developers: Save the Date for Our Next C# Jump Start, May 2

mrpaulb — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:20:21 GMT

Looking forward to this, Jerry and Daren did a great job on the previous course.

re: Hello Microsoft Virtual Academy! How Do You Want To Learn?

mrpaulb — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:17:28 GMT

Hi Matthew,

Where I have learned the most in MVA and elsewhere is in two ways:

1. Questions, questions, questions :-) please add lots of real world, hard questions to the courses, when I struggle with questions, perceiver and then succeed I always learn a great deal more. It's been disappointing to study long hours on the jumpstarts and then have no questions at all.

2. My favourite moments in MVA have been the live jumpstarts where the presenters show great real world knowledge with demonstrations often based on students comments and questions, the insights gained by these demonstrations, sometimes only a minute or two in length are of great value.

Least favourite, which is thankfully rare, was a course that was PPT only, I can't think of a better way to describe the experience.... after a couple of hours I was bored senseless.

I've used Khan Academy for refreshing and extending Math and Science knowledge, I find the knowledge map and the personal statistics on progress over time etc. really round off a great system, also think Udacity has a great system of questions embedded in the video lectures which really aid learning, maybe you could use the poll system in the jumpstarts to ask some technical questions about the material, would be interesting to see the results of that :-)

Overall I've gained a great deal from MVA, thank you for your continued efforts I'm looking forward to all the upcoming events & courses.

Kind regards

Paul

re: Hello Microsoft Virtual Academy! How Do You Want To Learn?

Ofir Moskovitch — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:00:32 GMT

Currently, the videos + summary materials (pdf, slides) are just fine on MVA, and I really like it, and like studying in such ways.

But...

I would definitely prefer more real-time study (labs + simulation exercises for each subject to get things nailed down) TechNet labs are just ain't enough, there are many subjects in MVA materials, that TechNet labs does not cover.

re: Hello Microsoft Virtual Academy! How Do You Want To Learn?

David — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:59:43 GMT

The format of the jumpstarts is very nice. Videos with lots of hand-on-demos and a multiple choice test. Subjects? I love to have content related to Dynamics CRM customization and development.

re: Important Change to Microsoft Virtual Academy Points System

Shweta Jain — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:15:47 GMT

Hi Carlos I. James Gutierrez,

As you mentioned in your post that new point system is about to come in new year to avoid illegally racking up of points. Any updates on that ?