User talk:Everything Else Is Taken

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Thanks, and some questions
Hello, Adambro. I thank you for your welcome message. I'm pretty new to Wikiversity, and am a little confused. When I browse, what am I supposed to find? Will I find lessons to read and follow? That's what I thought the idea was, but so far I'm finding a strange hodgepodge of things I don't understand. For instance, I clicked on a link to "Alternating Current Circuits," and I found a grouped listing of links to Wikipedia pages. That's not a course! That's not a way I can learn; it's too much information without structure, even though the topics are grouped. In another case, I went to learn about something called "Advanced ANOVA," and was completely bewildered; there's something there about face-to-face learning. Is this a course available only to certain people? If so, what's it doing out there where we newbies can confuse ourselves with it?

I know this is a pretty broad set of questions; I don't know how to be more concise about it. I hope you can help. Thanks!

P.S. Sorry I put this on your talk page (I then deleted it). I thought, from your message, that if I had questions, I could ask there, and didn't see right away the message on your page that I should ask them here instead. If you get a lot of newbies asking things on your page, rather than on their own talk pages, maybe if you specified in your welcome message to ask questions here, and that you'd be watching, there'd be less of that. Thanks again.

Everything Else Is Taken 15:45, 26 March 2010 (UTC)