Slayed by Python: Onlinedegree.com

[Merlin]

Week 17. I want to punch my monitor. Don't take this course. I'm so far in it's hard to quit but their business model appears to be to put together a trash quality course (they don't tell you what you got wrong on a quiz for example), somehow get ACE to approve it, and then spam you about signing up with one of their partner schools.

There really are questions where none of the answers make any sense, even after extensive googling. This is simple material made hard by poorly constructed quizzes.

The lack of ability to review your quiz results to see what you got right and wrong was one of the main reasons I dropped OD from my personal list of approved course providers. How can you get better if you can't tell where you need improvement?

I also didn't like their format... I don't mind video lessons, and the ones I saw (in the Psychology course) were actually very interesting, but the lack of text transcripts/summaries and the requirement to watch the whole video to get credit for the lesson annoyed me. Sometimes I just want to be able to read the transcript and use the video when I need visuals.

Either way, I had planned to take 3-4 courses through them when they first opened, but after the first 5 lessons, I determined it wasn't for me. I quit and went back to Study.com where I completed the rest of the courses I needed.

Much of their material comes from traditional college lectures, some lessons come from the great courses (which are usually taught by college professors as well), and supplemental material comes from various internet sources, so the course material quality seems to be pretty solid overall, its the presentation, assessment mechanism, and quiz content that needs to be revisited. Testing you on material that isn't covered in the lesson is a sign of a disconnect between the content developers (the lecturers) and quiz developers (the onlinedegree staff).