I would like to announce the addition of two more courses to the course catalog

• MATH121 - Sequences Limts and Series
• QUAL151 - Cause and Effect Diagrams

The first of these is the third in a five part series of courses on the calculus. The second is a short introduction to the cause and effect diagram, also called a fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram.

As always course development is always taking place, and you can influence what course to develop next by contacting us and giving feedback. We also revisit existing courses quite regularly, so if something is confusing, or you would like to see something added to an existing course tell us.

The new consultant network infrastructure is now in place. One can now be listed in our Consultants Gallery, by entering their profile in the consultant site. First one must register as a student, and then enter their profile information on the consultant site, and you will be automatically added to the network.

We have just introduced a new feature into the consultant site at LearningMeasure.com. Now you can enter a consultant profile on LearningMeasure.com. This is the first step in a series of improvements to our consultant network.

If you are a consultant in a technical field, we would like you to join our network. We are trying to build a network of consultants where we can mutually refer customers, and that you can promote your business on LearningMeasure.com. This can either by being part of our searchable consultants gallery, or by developing course material for us that will link back to your profile and business websites.

All we ask is that you maintain your student subscription, and occasionally we will ask for a fee for sending some tasks your way.

There are features yet being developed to try to be useful to our consultant network. Stay tuned for more progress reports.

Just wanted to update about the latest progress at LearningMeasure.com. One of the changes we have made to the site is to make it easier to renew your subscription when it expires. There is a bit more explanation now shown on how to renew your subscription using PayPal when your subscription expires. We also will take checks and purchase orders, but that has to be prearranged. Right now we use PayPal to do all our credit card processing and online invoicing, that may change in the future, but for now it is the easiest method to handle online subscriptions with a credit card. If any of you out there have any suggestions on a better service for that sort of thing, let me know.
Good progress is being made on the next course in the calculus series, which should make it to the catalog in the next few weeks. The first course in the often requested C programming series is also progressing nicely, but will take a bit longer. The other courses that are in development are significantly behind these two, but there should be some news next month on the progress of those courses. We will start to announce in advance courses that are near completion so that we can get better feedback on where to go next.  As we said in the last post, nothing moves a course up in priority with us than customer feedback.

I know it has been awhile since LearningMeasure.tv has had its last podcast. There are changes that I am working on to hopefully make the podcast a little more interesting. I would like feedback on that as well. We are trying to get some individuals to give us interviews, and to perform demos, as well as some other things. All this takes time. I will probably do an episode next on the LearningMeasure.com website itself, since it has changed significantly since the last time I did that.

We also added a new program. What we call programs are groupings of courses on a particular topic. Based on a request we created a measurement uncertainty program. When signing up for a program, one automatically signs up for all the courses associated with that program, in this case measurement uncertainty.

Given the last post on the MSC, I thought it might be worthwhile to talk a little about our course development priorities. It was clear that there is a problem with the existence of training resources in the measurement field, and LearningMeasure.com is trying to help alleviate that problem. Towards that end we need feedback on what is the most pressing need.
We want to hear what you think our training development priorities should be. We take all feedback very seriously. For instance we are currently working on a MIL-STD-461 testing training series because of feedback. Also being worked currently is the next course in our calculus series, and the first in a series on the C programming language.

We do have a list of courses we plan on developing as the site progresses. This list is expanding as more suggestions come in. We prioritize development first on those that get the most requests, second on what we consider vital to programs under development, and lastly courses that were developed primarily for LearningMeasure.com use. An example of the latter is our Perl programming courses, as LearningMeasure.com is primarily run by a series of Perl scripts. We feel that such courses may also be useful to others, so we add them to the catalog.

One can always suggest a course through our suggest a course website. Or one can comment on this post in a pinch.

There are of course suggestions we won’t act upon. For instance, I have received, surprisingly, several requests for a forklift training course. Sorry, that is highly unlikely, that is not our emphasis.

Also, existing courses are not meant to be static, but to be constantly improved and kept current, there is a comment mechanism for every page on a course. In the upper left corner of each course page is a icon which when clicked opens up a form at the bottom of the page. In that form one can make a comment on the page, ask a question about the course, or suggest further material that could be added to the course. The input is anonymous, unless one inputs an email address. If one asks a question, and wants an answer, one should enter their email address so that we can contact them.

Finally if you are a consultant or vendor, we would gladly use material that you would give us to be added as a course or part of a course. The material would be edited, and you would have to agree to give up rights to the material, but in exchange we will allow a one page advertisement for you and/or your company in the course, as well as links in other publicly available sections of our website.Current topics under consideration for future course development that are not currently areas that courses are being development on are

• Basic physics courses
• Electromagnetics
• Safety Courses
• Systems Engineering

These are just examples, but we would like to hear from you. We have a plan for what courses we will develop next that will at least take several months to complete. We want to maintain an emphasis on measurement, test, and metrology; but that might include background on why some measurements are made, or some of the foundational material, which is why we are thinking of adding basic physics courses. Let us know what your thoughts are. We want to provide a service that will be of the most use to our customers.