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Thanks Farhan, that's useful comments.

This is a new course, and until we know the demand, and have more comments like yours, we don't know if an higher level developer course will be commercially viable (if enough gut people will want it).

As MCCC manger I would love to have an official Administrator and Developer professional development programme (which I'm happy to manage and coordinate) , but that needs backing from Moodle HQ, which isn't as enthusiastic as it could be.

In terms of your question about intermediate developers getting a lower fee, the best thing I could say is to register for the pilot, which is 50% off !

Hi Guido

Thanks for getting in touch. I am really busy now getting the course ready and as I go it is changing and taking shape. The content may change a little yet, since we may be trying to cover too much in 8 weeks.

In terms of personal support, I will be available throughout the course via email and forums. If people are interested we could do a live weekly webinar/QA thing. In my experience that is not always a big sell, because of time zones and people's individual schedules, but I am happy to do it.

My general approach to learning is that "doing is everything." So for each learning objective I will provide text documentation, some screencasts, code examples and then assign a specific development task. I would like students to post completion evidence/feedback related to the task in a forum or database activity. Of course that is optional, but the greater the participation the better the learning. 

So the course will be less a "reference manual" and more like a series of tutorials followed by exercises. The initial course is likely to be small, probably capped at 20 people. So I should be able to deal with individual support, and that I suspect is where you had problems before. 

The other aspect of this is that this is the first course. So we are very interested in what you want to learn, and how you want to learn it.  It won't be perfect first time, but the plan is to keep improving based on what the participants report.

About the money. All I can say is that I am a single freelancer person too. I don't pay $500 (or $1500!!!) unless I am pretty sure it will make me that much money back. If there had been such a course, and I had taken it, a few years it would have saved me a whole lot of time. I did it all the hard way. I can't make the decision for you, all I can say is that this is the course I wish I had taken way back then. 

I hope that helps.