What is WGU like?

[housecat]

Merlin gave a great description/rundown/overview of what life is like at WGU. I am throwing in my own $.02 not only for the OP, but for anyone else considering WGU.  

In my opinion, you should get as many transfer credits as possible before going to WGU. I personally think that Study.com courses are easier for a variety of reasons which I will explain in a moment. WGU has internal social media/communication for each course via "course chatter". This allows students to openly communicate with Course Mentors and other students to publicly ask and answer questions or just make comments. The number one concern among students is PA and OA alignment. When I say PA in this context I mean "pre-assessment" and not "performance assessment".

This common fear about if the supporting course materials, quizzes, and pre-assessment align with the OA is an issue. This is not true of every course, but it is in some. Look no further than any of the facebook or reddit groups for WGU accelerators, concern over alignment will almost always be asked at some point depending on the course. The reasons for this can vary from course to course, however, the most common explanation is WGU has certain courses that always seem to be in a state of transition. New course material is added and other material taken away. It can be confusing in some instances if you try to gather sentiment on a class because you are not sure what version of the class someone took. 

I am currently taking C714 and there are two active versions of this class right now with the older version soon to be permanently gone. These types of transitions cause OA test questions to pop up that were never covered in the course material. Fortunately, there is no OA for C714. 

I have taken a number of courses with Study.com. I never felt like I was lacking access to practice tests and quizzes. When it was time for me to take a proctored exam with Study.com, I never felt like the final exam was surprising me with questions that were not covered in the material. At WGU, I don't feel like there is an over abundance of practice tests before I take the OA/final. Most PAs (to my knowledge) have only one set of practice questions. Course Mentors have even had to make their own Word documents to provide extra practice questions since in some cases the amount of test prep is lacking.    

Don't get me wrong, I like WGU but my point is this, at Study.com I never really worried if the underlying course content and practice tests would align with the final proctored exam. At WGU, valid concerns about alignment between the course material, the PA, and the OA do pop up as a concern sometimes. Transfer what you can not only in the name of saving money, but also in the name of speed and sanity.

Welp that's me out, I hate it when assessments do not match the taught curriculum.

Thank you!