Not sure if this belongs here, but here it goes…
I’m very fortunate to work for a company that offers a $500 annual professional development stipend. I was talking to a coworker about this, and she said she was able to spend some of her stipend on a Domestika subscription (crafting class website), 12 credits for any course. She didn’t have to justify which courses or that they relate XYZ to her job (we’re product designers; apps, software).
This got me curious to see if anyone else has other grand ideas for how to spend this stipend without really adding more work/study time to an already heavy workload. I totally understand the value of prof dev and will spend some of the stipend on ~true~ prof dev, but don’t want to spend the whole $500 on that. Besides, it’s hard to find a good course for anywhere near $500, which leaves mostly books. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts!