ALEKS free for two months (start by April 30, 2020)

[bjcheung77]

It's very sad, the Coronavirus situation's getting worse. I feel for those people who have no where to go. I had someone email/call me as she finished her lease at our place last week and moved over to her uncles place before she goes back to Vietnam. They tried to get a flight back home but all flights were canceled and now she wants to lease our place again as she needs a place to stay more permanently as this situation still hasn't cleared.

Sadly, I told her I already have taken a deposit and the person has already moved in on the first of April... Right now she's in a limbo of can't stay at Uncle's place for too long and stuck without a flight home... I just hope everyone is safe and this thing clears soon, but the experts estimate it being at least a few more months and up to 18 months before this thing clears. Stay safe, wash your hands!

[Lacedonia4]

ALEKS sucks

I haven't taken any of them and barely know anything about their platform, so do you have anything more substantial to explain why? I completed Sophia's math courses on a whim recently; I thought that while the overall presentation and ease of demonstrating what you already know were both high points, the lack of practice problems could be troublesome for students learning the material for the first time.

I tried ALEKS twice, my daughter tried it and a couple other kids I was helping and all I can say is that no one liked it. Maybe I’ll give it another try if they changed the format but I’m more of a textbook and lecture person (which is why I like SL). ALEKS would probably be better for someone with lots of prior knowledge or taken as a supplement with a class.

There was another kid in my neighborhood who finished Sophia, but when I would quiz him, he was lost and confused due to Sophia not having enough practice problems. I found the same issue with Khan academy. 

What wound up happening is that I purchased my high school algebra book on amazon for $10.00 and had my daughter go through every single question from cover to cover, then we just used Sophia as a test out (they had a huge sale at the time). The whole process took a year due to her being only 14 years old at the time. Also, textbooks are less distracting for some ppl, whereas newer digital textbooks have a lot of videos, and interactive stuff that was far too distracting for my daughter. So for something like math, it is my personal opinion, that the best way is sometimes the old ways.

For what it’s worth, I see that ASU EA algebra is ALEKS based, so some ppl might enjoy that.

I didn't like the aleks format and now am taking algebra on sophia. Math is not my forte. I purchased algebra for dummies with workbook before the sophia course and am slowly completing it. I'd rather analyze literature and write essays than do math. And my degree just requires one math course.

[lacussucceed]

So, is ALEKS different from what is described here: https://www.aleks.com/about_aleks/ace_credit ?

[bluebooger]

So, is ALEKS different from what is described here: https://www.aleks.com/about_aleks/ace_credit ?

they are the same thing            
in fact that page is pretty much copied and pasted into the first post of this thread

[LongRoad]

ALEKS sucks

I haven't taken any of them and barely know anything about their platform, so do you have anything more substantial to explain why? I completed Sophia's math courses on a whim recently; I thought that while the overall presentation and ease of demonstrating what you already know were both high points, the lack of practice problems could be troublesome for students learning the material for the first time.

I'm in Sophia's Algebra Fundamentals class, and I've taken ALEKS. Like Barbie, I find "Math is hard." Without the exercises to hammer in the concepts, I find this hard going. My plan is to find Schaum's Outline books. They do things step-by-step and that helped me in economics many decades ago.

[lacussucceed]

So, is ALEKS different from what is described here: https://www.aleks.com/about_aleks/ace_credit ?

they are the same thing            
in fact that page is pretty much copied and pasted into the first post of this thread

Before the changes it was just practice till 70%, now it's exams till 70%, correct?

[PrettyFlyforaChiGuy]

I'm in the middle of wrapping up multiple math courses from ALEKS and Sophia to get a feel for the relative strengths of each and figure out how they might help certain students.

I already finished Sophia's College Algebra, then went back down to Foundations and happily saw that its concepts overlap and scaffold up pretty well. There were definitely some long-buried concepts that I needed to review (completing the square? more like completely gone). Personally, I'd argue that Sophia's niche for math courses is a rapid refresher and/or a path to quick credit. Since their exams are multiple choice instead of free-response, and because there aren't really a lot of opportunities for practice, I don't think their structure would be as successful at hammering in the concepts for fresh learners who wanted a strong math foundation for future coursework.

On the other hand, I also worked through the ALEKS Precalculus course. After the initial knowledge check, I immediately saw an option to request an ACE exam in the corner. I haven't tried to do that yet, since I've been going through the pie slices anyway to dig into their approach. I believe that the ALEKS format provides more detailed explanations (along with alternative approaches to solve those same problems), forces a lot more practice through needing to complete 1-3 problems per section, and still doesn't feel like a complete slog thanks to being slightly "gamified." For now, this comes off as better-suited than Sophia for actually retaining and mastering concepts.

I haven't tried comparing their Stats courses yet, and this is all just my perspective anyway. I can definitely agree with what other posters here have stated: no matter which provider you choose, watching lectures, practicing, and using outside material will really help get the concepts down.

[Old Guy]

My understanding is that Liberty simply didn't kick students out of dorms that had no place else to go. Some people would consider it intolerant to throw foreigners on the streets during a plague so Liberty didn't do it. Lots of other schools did not eject foreigners. Liberty is a whipping boy for those who don't like conservatives and Christians.

[Gooberman11]

Does anyone if Charter Oaks still accepts ALEKS?

[warriortaupou]

Does anyone if Charter Oaks still accepts ALEKS?

Altho this post is 2-years old, I will say that I recall that they stopped accepting it, which is why we changed schools. However, TESU does. Also, it appears that AMU (APUS), UMPI, SNHU, and others do when I looked at their equivalencies these past two weeks.