American Dream Academy Course Limit?

[omicreativedev]

Could you elaborate? I'm new here. I'm not aware of these methods.

[KSoul]

The Salesforce & Google Certs are an excellent gateway into an intern position for young in their career applicants and solid paying positions for those with experience in those fields. 6-months is more than enough time to knock all of these out. I've never thought of the Facebook/Meto offering but now, with this extended time past my trial period only approach to Coursera certs, I might sign up and give these a shot.

[Caunce]

Hello,

I couldn't find a specific thread on this so here goes.

Does anyone know if there's a limit on the amount of courses you can take through the American Dream Academy program? I just signed up and I'm having a hard time picking one certificate? I'm working on a budget.

Kind regards,
Vintage Jacket

I did all of them, so it is possible.

It wasn't really worth it to me personally to do all of them though. I found the project management one the most useful, the others are kind of meh, following the example of browse this site wrote at the end of the entrepreneur essay. The IT one I think gained me one class at TESU that does not "fit" anywhere other than the electives, and I think I learned more about IT from the Cybersecurity one. The data science one was below the level of a first college course on the topic though TESU gave multiple classes for it so it is a win credit-wise.

It depends on what you want to use them for as to whether they will all be worth it for you. Pierpont gives 12 credits for the IT one so it does have greater utility elsewhere. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't spent the time working on all of them when there are other options, like using the free trials to knock out the IBM certs, the WIT Cloud Computing one, the two SAS programming ones etc. I got distracted by the shiny free ADA options just because they were there and lost a month or so ^^'

Still, I think that any education is always useful given that it is also free, but it's a shame that not all options are equally good. I'd rather take just a couple of programs because I don't have time for all the courses, so I'm looking at their academy.

[LevelUP]

From the American Dream Academy FAQ

"It is recommended that you complete the requirements in six to eight months. It is estimated that you will need to commit approximately five to ten hours a week to complete the program in that time period. Only learners who have been inactive for over 90 days will be removed."

As long as you stay active, you may be able to complete courses beyond 6 months.

I would suggest completing one exam to stay active since they may add new courses in the future.