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      <title>Japanese woodcraft</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Japanese woodcraft&#xA;&#xA;This was posted to the fediverse earlier,  really interesting set of videos on Open Culture showing how highly skilled Japanese wood crafters are.&#xA;&#xA;Their blog post, from May 3rd can be found here&#xA;&#xA;Worth a view,  the Open Culture is also worth a closer look as it has links to lots of free online courses.&#xA;&#xA;Distance learning is the future of education,  why go to an old fashioned brick college when you can learn at home or from anywhere.   The Open University have been doing this for decades.   The last face to face course I did,  really did show how bad adult education can be,  the printed materials / workbook was barely readable due to bad printing.  &#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#OpenCulture,#Japanese,#Woodwork,#Fediverse]]&gt;</description>
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<p>This was posted to the fediverse earlier,  really interesting set of videos on <a href="https://www.openculture.com/" rel="nofollow">Open Culture</a> showing how highly skilled Japanese wood crafters are.</p>

<p>Their blog post, from May 3rd can be <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/watch-a-traditional-japanese-carpenter-make-190-different-joints.html" rel="nofollow">found here</a></p>

<p>Worth a view,  the <a href="https://www.openculture.com/" rel="nofollow">Open Culture</a> is also worth a closer look as it has links to lots of free online courses.</p>

<p>Distance learning is the future of education,  why go to an old fashioned brick college when you can learn at home or from anywhere.   The <a href="https://www.open.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">Open University</a> have been doing this for decades.   The last face to face course I did,  really did show how bad adult education can be,  the printed materials / workbook was barely readable due to bad printing.</p>

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<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:OpenCulture" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">OpenCulture</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Japanese" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Japanese</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Woodwork" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Woodwork</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Fediverse" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Fediverse</span></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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