Create Your Own College Courses

Do you really understand your Passion? Help others discover it.

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

Share your passion - create your own college course: right here, right now, on Squidoo. As Van Gogh implied, if you want to be an artist, support art. If you want to be a writer, edit this, or write something open content yourself. I you want to hack, hack up something here. Consider these links as examples of open class work; no grades, just learning. Mistakes aren't failures unless you refuse to correct them. make lots of mistakes.

If you want to craft anything -- get involved, make it your art.

One of my passions is student-crafted learning, so this one page Squidoo lens is about BFU. Follow this link to start your own lens about a subject you love to think, write, and talk about.

To simplify the process; first outline the knowledge needed, the skills required or to be hired and acquired, and the judgments that will need to be exercised to become successful in your arena. Knowledge - Skills - Judgments (KSJ)


Your new lens will be easy to revise - don't worry about making it perfect yet - just make it. You will need several modules before Squidoo will display it as a completed lens.

List an Amazon module with 3 to 5 good books about your topic, or an Amazon Plexo with up to ten books, Tell a reader to pick two books to start the course. Write a text module on each of the three top books you recommend, explaining their value. Find or create a YouTube or two on the subject. Then go wild and do a link module to good stuff about your passion on the internet.


All of this can be done quickly and easily using Squidoo. If you want to see an example of an excellent children's course look at the Royalton Raid Squidoo lens by Evelyn Sanez. As another approach consider my Renaissance Education lens.

Add whatever YOU think is appropriate.

"To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller



Then come back here and post a comment with a link to your course so others can benefit from your passion. Your class may also make it into the regular BFU curriculum. If you want to positively change education and society, add your new course to the list at the Netcohort Institute also.

Register for no charge at Bastiat Free University to monitor our current class structure - you can create better.

You can just do it to show off, help others, expand your learning, or just 'cause BFU gets 5 bucks if your lens makes money for you or a charity.


Let's see what you've got!