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Sophia Project Management - YIKES!
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My son is hating every moment of it. He said, and I quote, "Study.com is horrible, but this is worse." I think it looks like a great platform, but I don't think it's compatible with his thinking style. He has only 2 days to get it all done due to scheduling issues, and it's going to be a painful two days.
Here Researching for my son, who has done the following:
Community College: Intro to Philosophy, Fundamentals of IT, English Comp 1
Saylor: Intro to Business, Principles of  Marketing, Corporate Communication
Shmoop: US History 2 (WGU won't accept this)
ALEKS: Int. Algebra, College Algebra
Study.com: Personal Finance, Principles of Finance, HR Management, Global Business, Advanced Operations Management
Straighterline: US History 2, Environmental Science, US History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, English Comp 2, Principles of Management, Business Law, Business Ethics, Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Accounting 1,Communication, Managerial Accounting, Statistics
Ed4Credit: Managing Information Systems
Sophia: Project Management
WGU: Bachelors in HR Management 

Second son is currently attending Penn Foster for his high school diploma, then on to Ashworth for An Associates in Criminal Justice
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rowan555 Wrote:My son is hating every moment of it. He said, and I quote, "Study.com is horrible, but this is worse." I think it looks like a great platform, but I don't think it's compatible with his thinking style. He has only 2 days to get it all done due to scheduling issues, and it's going to be a painful two days.

Ah man, what did he say was the trouble? The assignments or just the course structure?
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#3
That's too bad! I really enjoyed the Effective Teams course and I am looking forward to doing more with them in the future, I am definitely taking the Project Management course there.

I also really really like Study.com so definitely a different learning styles thing I guess!

Good luck rowan555's son!
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#4
He was first put off by the layout which presents you with a "challenge", which is a set of 10 pages of questions, and then you go and read or view the related material. I told him it's not a big deal, just read first, then do the questions. He got past that, but then he began complaining that some of the questions are needlessly convoluted, with the links leading you to the wrong material. He had a point. There are also some questions - quite a few - involving ordering things - and the material doesn't necessarily lay out a precise order. He called me over to ask my thoughts on a few he had gotten wrong (you get 3 tries, but when it's a matter of ordering 6 items, it's easy to exhaust those 3 chances). I agreed with him that those were a bit silly and made little sense. Apparently the "Milestone", or unit test, had a bunch of these as well, and he's just frustrated by them. He said he much prefers Straighterline to any other platform, and he would not do Sophia again. This is his last alternative credit course, so it's not an issue. He's just got to make it through the rest of this.
Here Researching for my son, who has done the following:
Community College: Intro to Philosophy, Fundamentals of IT, English Comp 1
Saylor: Intro to Business, Principles of  Marketing, Corporate Communication
Shmoop: US History 2 (WGU won't accept this)
ALEKS: Int. Algebra, College Algebra
Study.com: Personal Finance, Principles of Finance, HR Management, Global Business, Advanced Operations Management
Straighterline: US History 2, Environmental Science, US History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, English Comp 2, Principles of Management, Business Law, Business Ethics, Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Accounting 1,Communication, Managerial Accounting, Statistics
Ed4Credit: Managing Information Systems
Sophia: Project Management
WGU: Bachelors in HR Management 

Second son is currently attending Penn Foster for his high school diploma, then on to Ashworth for An Associates in Criminal Justice
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#5
One other issue - you cannot schedule the final until you are 3/4 through the course, and ProctorU requires you to schedule 3 days in advance. This is the main reason he's having to rush to the 3/4 point. He needs to submit his transcript to WGU by next Friday. The original plan was to take it a bit easier and do a unit a day, then take the final Wednesday - but we can't schedule it until he completes the Unit 3 Exam. He used online chat to see if there was a workaround for this, but there is not.
Here Researching for my son, who has done the following:
Community College: Intro to Philosophy, Fundamentals of IT, English Comp 1
Saylor: Intro to Business, Principles of  Marketing, Corporate Communication
Shmoop: US History 2 (WGU won't accept this)
ALEKS: Int. Algebra, College Algebra
Study.com: Personal Finance, Principles of Finance, HR Management, Global Business, Advanced Operations Management
Straighterline: US History 2, Environmental Science, US History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, English Comp 2, Principles of Management, Business Law, Business Ethics, Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Accounting 1,Communication, Managerial Accounting, Statistics
Ed4Credit: Managing Information Systems
Sophia: Project Management
WGU: Bachelors in HR Management 

Second son is currently attending Penn Foster for his high school diploma, then on to Ashworth for An Associates in Criminal Justice
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#6
Isn't there an additional fee you can pay ProctorU and then schedule the same day you want to take it?
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JamesIE Wrote:Isn't there an additional fee you can pay ProctorU and then schedule the same day you want to take it?

Yes, if they have available time slots. They probably would.

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#8
I also don't like Sophia, but I think Study.com is even worse. I don't believe in learning by excessive quizzing. I'd rather spend more time looking over the material than spending most of my time answering quiz questions. I also don't feel as if Study.com teaches at the college level.

In another thread, someone said that Study.com is like Spark Notes whereas Shmoop was more about learning the whys and hows or something like that. Well, that's the difference between high school and college. In a high school course, you'll need to memorize dates, places, and names. In a college course, you'll need to understand the circumstances surrounding events.
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sanantone Wrote:I also don't like Sophia, but I think Study.com is even worse. I don't believe in learning by excessive quizzing. I'd rather spend more time looking over the material than spending most of my time answering quiz questions. I also don't feel as if Study.com teaches at the college level.

In another thread, someone said that Study.com is like Spark Notes whereas Shmoop was more about learning the whys and hows or something like that. Well, that's the difference between high school and college. In a high school course, you'll need to memorize dates, places, and names. In a college course, you'll need to understand the circumstances surrounding events.

I haven't done Study.com, so I can't compare. But SL is excessive quizzing as well (maybe not as much as Study.com).
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dfrecore Wrote:I haven't done Study.com, so I can't compare. But SL is excessive quizzing as well (maybe not as much as Study.com).

Some SL courses have too many quizzes. For Study.com's basic course in Personal Finance, there are over 400 quiz questions, and that's not even including the final. Actually, I think there might be closer to 500. I've heard that some of their other courses have even more quizzes than Personal Finance.
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DSST
Life Dev Psych 62, Fund Coun 68, Intro Comp 469, Intro Astr 56, Env & Hum 70, HTYH 456, MIS 451, Prin Sup 453, HRM 62, Bus Eth 458
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TEEX
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Fed Inc Tax, Sci of Nutr, Micro, Strat Man, Med Term, Pub Relations
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Sys Analysis & Design, Programming, Cyber
SL
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A&P
Davar
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