RA like ASU with option to add credit at end of course?

[LastFrontierLearner]

Are there any other RA online classes like ASU's Earned Admission that give the option of making the class for-credit at the end of the course instead of the beginning? I've tried Googling and searching through the forums here but haven't come up with anything. 

EDIT: For a bit of context, my 13-year-old twins are homeschooling and they are chomping at the bit to start college classes. They definitely have the reading ability and motivation, but I'm looking for options where they could potentially earn RA credit with a bit of a safety net as they adapt to the rigor of college-level classes.

Thank you - I have already learned a ton from all of you!

[homeschoolmom1]

If it has to be RA credit, then, no, I don't think there is anything like it. ASU for the win! I love it for the safety net that you are describing. I have a 14 year old who has done mostly study.com and sophia, for the same reasons. He has failed a CLEP exam here and there, but he just picks up the pieces and tries again.

Good luck!

[Jonathan Whatley]

If my understanding is correct, Coursera has some courses where you can take a non-credit Coursera course first with your Coursera subscription, then enroll in the corresponding course from an RA university and that latter course will ultimately be RA credit on the university's transcript.

The Coursera course will count towards some of the coursework of the RA course, but not nearly all. In the programs I know about, the RA course also follows a term schedule for assignments; that portion is not self-paced.

I think the master's programs through Coursera from UIUC Gies (business and accounting) and CU Boulder (computer science and related) work this way.

I don't know whether Coursera offers anything like this on a course-by-course basis at the bachelor's level.

[LastFrontierLearner]

If it has to be RA credit, then, no, I don't think there is anything like it. ASU for the win! I love it for the safety net that you are describing. I have a 14 year old who has done mostly study.com and sophia, for the same reasons. He has failed a CLEP exam here and there, but he just picks up the pieces and tries again.

Good luck!

I am new to the homeschool-for-college-credit thing and it's a bit like drinking through a firehose! I will look into Study.com and Sophia as well - who knows, my twins might be motivated enough to get their bachelor's before they graduate high school rather than transferring credits to their local university, so TESU or somewhere similar that accepts ACE is definitely worth considering. Thanks for the reply!

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If my understanding is correct, Coursera has some courses where you can take a non-credit Coursera course first with your Coursera subscription, then enroll in the corresponding course from an RA university and that latter course will ultimately be RA credit on the university's transcript.

The Coursera course will count towards some of the coursework of the RA course, but not nearly all. In the programs I know about, the RA course also follows a term schedule for assignments; that portion is not self-paced.

I think the master's programs through Coursera from UIUC Gies (business and accounting) and CU Boulder (computer science and related) work this way.

I don't know whether Coursera offers anything like this on a course-by-course basis at the bachelor's level.

I hadn't heard of this before! It's an interesting approach, although definitely not cheap. Illinois Tech has jumped on the bandwagon with their own Master of Data Science through Coursera and they do offer a small discount for taking 80% of the material through Coursera, but it still ends up being $15k for the master's.