Degree Plan, help? I

[infradata.it@gmail.com]

I hate to that guy.. but I have done so much "hard cramming" ... I've earned some "easy cramming" (meaning, I'm starting with: Finnish Edu Sys, My dog/My cat, biodiversity, climate .. for the hoped ease)

If all my RA credits were stuff like "Cheese Appreciation" & "Underwater basket weaving" ... so be it

But turning some of my Cyber and maybe Data Science into, "low effort" RA credits... would also be decent, if more effort
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I dont want to feel over confident, but I feel I could successfully lead another to the point I have reached now, minus a lot of the research headaches ("I have ridden the mighty moon worm" - Al Gore)
And I think I could lead them to do it "free" + $80 USD (30 days of Sophia learning vastly increases speed/ease, coupon price)
But swapping Modern States would allow you to do it, 100% free, until you hit the degree awarding institution

[infradata.it@gmail.com]

missed 3:

Rethinking health, Online teaching 2 cr

The Nordics: Narratives and Practices of a Region, UH: The Nordics: Narratives and Practices of a Region, Online teaching 5 cr

Online teaching, Forests and Climate Change, Online teaching 2 cr

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Some (about 15) of these "may" have minor fees, 15 to 75 euros, but it will be listed on page

[animuscerebri]

I found some new free, in English, RA creds material at the University of Turku (Finland), check out the courses https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...For-Credit

You also have one AI+Cybersecurity course, and some CS courses.

[infradata.it@gmail.com]

great find, thanks, will investigate deeper soon

[infradata.it@gmail.com]

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I got there CEO, Shawna Thayer's direct contact info..... I AM NOT LETTING THIS GO, regardless of "what it looks like" or "what others think" ...

Their corporate headquarters is also open to clients & business inquiries

[infradata.it@gmail.com]

Sophia wants to bully me?
If I have too I will have them stripped of the ability to offer accredited courses, via endless, substantive complaints/suits

[mcmctalk]

Sorry, what’s the issue you’re experiencing? I must have missed a thread somewhere. I thought you were making some solid progress on certs and RA credits and on the way to TESU, is that not the case?

[Hotdogman1]

He got banned from Sophia and all his grades were removed. He completed 50+ courses within 27 days while accusing the Sophia staff of deliberate slow grading to impede his progress. He got banned after he kept arguing about his touchstone grades.

He got banned here after threatening another member via private message. https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-Lame-Threats

[animuscerebri]

He got banned from Sophia and all his grades were removed. He completed 50+ courses within 27 days while accusing the Sophia staff of deliberate slow grading to impede his progress. He got banned after he kept arguing about his touchstone grades.

He got banned here after threatening another member via private message. https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-Lame-Threats

What the heck happened? I just came online after a work trip, and I thought he would be reporting on his progress toward RA creds, and I see this now. I'm pretty flabbergasted.

Does anybody know what the actual origin of this Sophia ban was? I think this is pretty important in this case, because this is pretty much the cause for the subsequent chain reaction (and his reactions) of events. 

I'm not so sure whether this has really something to do with the amount of courses completed. Other people have already done something quite similar in the past as well and quite publicly, such as this guy from College Hacked (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml56tOzRogs). And they didn't get banned for that. Granted, this is an outlier situation, but he is not the only one.

Or has Sophia changed or implemented a new policy that you can't take a certain amount of courses in a given month in total?

Based on what Hotdogman1 reported, I guess that - maybe - the main cause was that Sophia didn't like the way he criticized them for taking too much (in infradata.it@gmail.com's view ?) time grading - as it looks - his papers? That's pretty much the only thing that slows down the progress of taking Sophia courses.

If you take a look at his first posts here on this thread from 04-17-2025, he himself wrote "My English skills are good, but I have an eccentric writing style." and "[...] I am shy, eccentric and abrasive to others (I can do the work, I cant do "others")".

I'd prefer to know the whole facts and how everything went down before implying anything. There are always two sides to a story; that's way, I leave it at that.

BTW, I'm not so sure if he is still banned on Sophia, because according to the information available online he got some other Sophia credits just yesterday. He is probably in talks with them to get re-instated.

According to my quick research, I also found here on this forum other users who have been complaining about Sophia graders from English Composition, see https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...ans?page=2.