When the Summer Seminar was cancelled this year, the ANA spent some time trying to figure out how to move some material online, and created the ANA eLearning Academy to give a taste of some of the classes that would have been offered. On July 8, from 12:00-2:00 pm MDT, the ANA eLearning Academy will be presenting Collecting and Investing in Morgan Dollars. This will be a 2 hour version of the 22 hour in-person class that would have been taught at the ANA Summer Seminar this summer. Michael Fey and I will be conducting this over Zoom through the ANA. As it is greatly abbreviated, we'll be covering material in far less depth, but it will give a flavor of the things we do in person in the classroom. Obviously, we can't pass coins around, either. We'll try to answer a few questions during the class, but what we can do there will depend on the number of students. We want to give you a taste of what you'd experience in person. As this is the ANA's (and our) first attempt at this we're both excited and a little anxious as to how this will go and how it will be received. Normally, you need to be an ANA member to participate in the Summer Seminar, but this year, the ANA eLearning Academy has been made available for FREE for everyone. In addition to the Morgan class, you can take some of the other classes they're offering for FREE at various times during the two weeks from the end of June to early July, including grading, counterfeit detection, the modern minting process, and others. The web page just went live today.
Will this be recorded and made available at some later time, if we can't make it to the original airing?
They will be recording these. I don't know yet how they will be made available in the future, but as far as I know, the plan is to do that.
Are they planning on doing an ancients one? I thought they did have some ancients stuff on the docket for the summer seminar.
Yeah I looked there, but didnt see one. So I didn't know if they were planning on doing any additional or anything.
This is a pilot program for which they chose from those classes that were being offered this year. If this is successful, they are bound to add to their offerings.
