TESU and WGU offer credit for edX MicroBachelors® Programs

[nomaduser]

It's always up the institution if they want to accept transfer credits but "CR" is not equivalent to continuing education. It just means it was a pass/fail course.

Obviously, courses with letter grades will more likely transfer.
Please send a complaint to edx:
https://courses.edx.org/support/contact_us

I hope they will fix it soon.
Everyone, if you'd like to get transferable credits from Edx and TESU, please send complaints to Edx.

[rachel83az]

For what it's worth, you can apply for financial aid for those microbachelors classes, making them 90% cheaper. Also, the computer science fundamentals one was actually significantly less work than taking the comparable course at ASU. Also, they currently have a 100% scholarship that you can apply for, but they're 6-8 weeks backlogged for it. Finally, while TESU has only currently evaluated 4 of them for credit, there are 4 more currently being evaluated. The 2 additional ones from NYUx are "intended" to be worth 8 and 9 credits in programming and cyber security.


https://www.edx.org/microbachelors

https://www.edx.org/scholarships

If you can get them for about $50 (assuming you get financial aid and not the scholarship), that's not bad at all.

[MNomadic]

For what it's worth, you can apply for financial aid for those microbachelors classes, making them 90% cheaper. Also, the computer science fundamentals one was actually significantly less work than taking the comparable course at ASU. Also, they currently have a 100% scholarship that you can apply for, but they're 6-8 weeks backlogged for it. Finally, while TESU has only currently evaluated 4 of them for credit, there are 4 more currently being evaluated. The 2 additional ones from NYUx are "intended" to be worth 8 and 9 credits in programming and cyber security.


https://www.edx.org/microbachelors

https://www.edx.org/scholarships

If you can get them for about $50 (assuming you get financial aid and not the scholarship), that's not bad at all.

Agreed. That's the only reason I did the NYUx computer science fundamentals course. It complemented the ASU course will most likely be considered duplicate credit. I wish I'd have waited for the 2 newer ones from NYUx, though. They look pretty good.

[ss20ts]

How's this courses different than Sophia's Introduction to Information Technology course?


Introduction to Information Technology (by WGU) 3 ITS-103 $899.10 (regularly $999)

[sowelisuwi]

https://www.tesu.edu/news/1694352/tesu-r...ors-credit

WGU "Introduction to Information Technology" transfers as ITS-103 and Doane University “Marketing Essentials" transfers as MAR-201, 3 credits each.

[MNomadic]

How's this courses different than Sophia's Introduction to Information Technology course?


Introduction to Information Technology (by WGU)      3                ITS-103                                         $899.10 (regularly $999)

Sophia's course is extremely basic and just gives a survey level of info for non IT people. The WGU micro bach is 3 intro courses from WGU and is designed for IT majors to get their baseline knowledge before tackling the Comptia A+, N+ and S+ certs. I don't envision it being a good investment for anyone unless they get a significant discount. If you transfer to WGU, it's worth 10 CU, but if you transfer it to TESU, it's only 3, which would make the $900 rather pricey. I audited it a while back for fun and the finals were actually pretty challenging(includes a lot of specific technical questions). I didn't read any of their specific course materials first and didn't pass their practice final. I did easily pass the Sophia IT course in about a day, though. These were both right after I passed my A+ cert.

[ss20ts]

How's this courses different than Sophia's Introduction to Information Technology course?


Introduction to Information Technology (by WGU)      3                ITS-103                                         $899.10 (regularly $999)

Sophia's course is extremely basic and just gives a survey level of info for non IT people. The WGU micro bach is 3 intro courses from WGU and is designed for IT majors to get their baseline knowledge before tackling the Comptia A+, N+ and S+ certs. I don't envision it being a good investment for anyone unless they get a significant discount. If you transfer to WGU, it's worth 10 CU, but if you transfer it to TESU, it's only 3, which would make the $900 rather pricey. I audited it a while back for fun and the finals were actually pretty challenging(includes a lot of specific technical questions). I didn't read any of their specific course materials first and didn't pass their practice final. I did easily pass the Sophia IT course in about a day, though. These were both right after I passed my A+ cert.

I've done Sophia's course and it was very basic. I was just wondering what the difference was because the price difference is HUGE. If it's only 3 credits then it's probably not worth the price difference, but for 10 cu at WGU it's probably worth it.

[Seagull]

https://www.tesu.edu/news/1694352/tesu-r...ors-credit

WGU "Introduction to Information Technology" transfers as ITS-103 and Doane University “Marketing Essentials" transfers as MAR-201, 3 credits each.

Are these courses free?
Are the final exams proctored?

[nomaduser]

Yeah.. but the courses won't come with letter grades. We need to ask Edx to fix this.
https://courses.edx.org/support/contact_us

How can they create this amazing program without course letter grades on transcript??
Without letter grades, it's extremely difficult to transfer the credits to any institution.
I'm surprised big names like Boeing and Walmart are funding this program. The program has flaws... only few online colleges will ever accept transfer credits without letter grades.
MicroBachelor credits can be useful at TESU though...

[MNomadic]

https://www.tesu.edu/news/1694352/tesu-r...ors-credit

WGU "Introduction to Information Technology" transfers as ITS-103 and Doane University “Marketing Essentials" transfers as MAR-201, 3 credits each.

Are these courses free?
Are the final exams proctored?

Not free.
Proctored finals for each class within the microbachelors series.