Being never that happy with my work I am always interested in courses that may help me improve my "skills." Last year I enrolled on Bryan Peterson's (more about Bryan on an earlier post) "Art of Seeing" online course. The course is designed to open your eyes to the creative photo-opportunities that we all have around us. 
It was great! I loved it! It probably didn't help me with my stock work much but it was fun, fun, fun!
Being totally on-line it is a slick and efficient process. You can view the work, profiles and comments of the other "class members" - just like school except no one notices if you fall asleep at the back of the class. My class was mainly made up of a lovely group of American citizens many of whom had taken other PPSOP (Perfect Picture School of Photography - Bryan's School) classes which is a good sign. I really chose this one because Bryan himself is the main tutor (I am worried I am starting to sound like a stalker!).
Assignements were delivered on line. You then have a week to post 3 or 4 shots which fit the assignment. It is mostly about getting you thinking about angles (low down, high up, macro), movement, theme etc. Bryan would then deliver his critique on your shots each week and you could look at what others were doing.
At the time the £/$ exchange rate was in our favour over here in the UK so for me it was superb value at around £100 (it would be around £10M with the rates now!). Bryan was very generous with his time and advice and it is probably the best £100 I have spent on photography related stuff. Do check it out! Here are some of the posts I made:
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