Westwood SAS User Group presents: A Review of "Free" Massive Open Online Content for SAS Learners
A Review of "Free" Massive Open Online Content (MOOC) for SAS® Learners
Leading online providers are now offering SAS® users with “free” access to content for learning how to use and program in SAS. This content is available to anyone in the form of massive open online content (or courses) (MOOC). Not only is all the content offered for “free”, but it is designed with the distance learner in mind, empowering users to learn using a flexible and self-directed approach. A MOOC represents online content such as a PDF document, course, video or other resources and content that is freely available to the masses using the web. Topics include the various ways anyone who wants to learn SAS programming techniques can access “free” learning technologies including SAS On-Demand for Academics and SAS Studio software, SAS technical support, published PDF “white” papers, code examples, comprehensive notes, instructor lesson plans, hands-on exercises, data files, webinars, videos, audio files, and other content.
Intended Audience: All SAS users
Prerequisites: None
Type of Presentation: Tutorial with access to MOOC providers
Length: 50 minutes
Presented by:
Kirk Paul Lafler is a consultant, developer, programmer, educator, and data scientist, and has been a SAS user since 1979. Kirk works as a lecturer and adjunct professor at San Diego State University; and teaches dozens of SAS, SQL, Python, and Excel courses, workshops, and webinars to users around the world. Kirk is the author of several books including PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS, Third Edition (SAS Press. 2019) along with hundreds of papers and articles on a variety of SAS, SQL, Python, and Excel topics. Kirk currently serves as the Open-source Advocate and Coordinator for the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) organization, and has been selected as an Invited speaker, educator, keynote and section leader at conferences and meetings worldwide; and is the recipient of 29 “Best” contributed paper, hands-on workshop (HOW), and poster awards.
