Reddit reviews Introducing Autodesk Maya 2016: Autodesk Official Press

I have used only paid content and I have just been learning myself, moving from 3ds max to Maya, but have followed Maya related courses on Lynda.com, Pluralsight.com, and Udemy. I have found Pluralsight Maya courses to be most comprehensive and they have a dynamic playlist: https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skills/maya-dynamics-core-skills. I have done many of the core Maya courses, but in dynamics, I have only taken the Pluralsight nParticle fundamentals course - which was very thorough. Lynda.com also has a very good MASH course.

When following some of the older videos elsewhere, I have found they can still be used; the menus have simply changed, but the process is the same. So you could probably still use the video you linked to above, since nParticles has been around a long time, but you would need to re-map the instructions to the current Maya interface.

As I said, I am only learning Maya myself, and am more of a developer and not an artist. I have found this book: https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Autodesk-Maya-2016-Official/dp/1119059631 to be excellent at filling in the parts that I did not find intuitive with Maya in general. I found it to be a good base - but only one chapter on dynamics/effects. As it is from 2016, it also doesn't cover the Arnold renderer. It might however help you use the online free videos - put them better into the context of the new interface.

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You might like some of the books that are available (such as Intro or Mastering) which are available in ebook/pdf forms. I haven't read them, but from the table of contents they seem to cover most of the basics.