Read this forum and you will not need a SEO course , the best SEO course is here and testing / working / testing and .... again testing / working . Good luck !
Forums are definately great, but I am curious as well. Are there any comprehensive courses out there that you guys have tried?
There are seminars out there but I guess most are in the US and not much in my place in the globe. With forums, there is a great interaction among different people. Most of the time, wrongly perceived pieces of advice are rebuffed so I think staying in a forum does usually helps you learn.
well i found this very useful, its for onpage optimization specifically which is obviously the best place to start if your new to SEO as i am http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=52079
If anyone claims to give you a "24 hrs for becoming a great SEO", I would say they are fake.. There no such course that can make you an expert. Keep reading the forums, know what are the basic SEO practices. I would say there are no written rules here as the rules keep changing now and then. Its a kind of research and your own experiments will make an SEO out of you..