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</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are all over the country what we call "Centros MEC", from the ministry of education, where there are computers with connectivity and focus mostly on digital literacy for adults. </div>
<div><br></div><div>However I'm not aware of any "online course for adults". </div><div><br></div><div>One excellent Uruguayan resource for adults to start learning is "the cuckoo of the computers" (<a href="http://ludo.com.uy/cuco/en/">http://ludo.com.uy/cuco/en/</a>), which also has a version that runs on the XOs (in Spanish): <a href="ftp://200.40.200.101/juegos/rayuela/cuco/CucoXO.xo">ftp://200.40.200.101/juegos/rayuela/cuco/CucoXO.xo</a></div>
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<br style="font-style:italic"><br>Cheers,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Alan<br></font></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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