I personally do much better with "hands on" experience. There used to be lot's of continuing education type courses at community colleges. I dunno anymore, but something like that with some internets stuff would seem to be the best way to understand shutter aperature relationships, basic composition, digital image management.
The one thing that is certain, is no one ever knows it all or is right all the time... there are many ways to approach photography. They are as varied as an artistic medium to journalistic tool...sometimes even those are not mutually exclusive. For me it has been a few formal courses, watching others work and picking their brains, stuyding on the interweb and a lot of shooting with an intended outcome.
One caveat about the web : Ken R.
.... could not help myself,,, sorry!
J