My name is Edward Tanguay.
I have a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, a Masters in Education, and am currently working as a web developer in Berlin, Germany.

I watch over 200 college-level MOOC lectures per year in subjects such as history , psychology, science, religion, art, philosophy, and IT development in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, and record my notes here.
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The primary goal of this Learn Tracker project is to build a web site which serves as one place to record the notes of everything that I am learning from MOOC classes, to foreign languages, to useful code examples and technical how-to notes, so that I not only have an overview of what I have learned, but can search and recall these notes at any time.

The secondary goal of this Learn Tracker project is to work together with companies, universities, and MOOC providers to build software that allows employees, students, and learners to record what they are learning in an efficient way so that it serves not only as (1) a record of what they have learned, but also (2) a place for them to review and search what they have learned.

Since January 2013, I have watched and recorded notes on over 300 MOOC lectures from over 30 different courses in both English and French, and have watched and recorded notes and flashcards on over 50 foreign language videos in Italian, French and Spanish. (I am curently still adding notes I took from 2013 and plan to be caught up by the end of January 2014.

July 2019 Learn Certificate
Watched and took notes on 1 college lectures:
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Watched and took notes on MOOC lecture:
PALEONTOLOGY: EARLY VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION, University of Alberta
as paleontologists look back into the past, the further they look, the blurrier and smaller the view finder becomes
with living animals we can observe them directly
with animals from the Paleozoic Era (542-250 Ma, fish) or Mesozoic Era (250-65 Ma, dinosaurs) we observe them through fossils
becoming a fossil was like striking the lottery
as some soft Paleozoic life form, the chances of your remains being preserved was exceptionally small... view all notes
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