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For anyone looking at Torah College Credits to fulfill the information literacy requirement at Excelsior, here is a link to the video course.
I don't think it is a complicated topic and I've read here that people have breezed through the material at Penn Foster and at Excelsior. This is a two-credit exam that normally costs $135 + registration and $25 exam fee. With the summer discount code (summer50), the registration fee is waived and you get $50 off so that comes to $110 for 2 credits.
Comparing this to the Information Literacy class at Penn Foster:
- Penn Foster's class is only $79 because it's a 1-credit class and that's all that's required for Excelsior
- The Torah College Credits exam is less per credit but the overall cost is more because of the proctor fee and the fact that it's a two-credit exam.
- I don't know which route is faster/easier so perhaps others who have dealt with Penn Foster can chime in.
- Penn Foster's information literacy class is ACE-approved and Torah College Credits' exam is NCCRS-approved. I have worked with both NCCRS and ACE and have had no issues.
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I highly recommend the TCC route.
I like how it's just one proctored exam and you're done. Sign up isn't bad since the communication responses are very quick.
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I just received a message from Excelsiors advisors stating that they don't accept Penn Foster Information Literacy anymore.... did this change happen within 2 months?
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World Religions - A, Speech Communication - B, Intro to Sociology - A
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Introductory Psychology - 64, Spanish Language - 80, Western Civilization I - 58, Western Civilization II - 57, Principles of Macroeconomics - 54, Principles of Microeconomics - 52, Principles of Marketing - 59, Principles of Management - 52, Information Systems - 64
DSST (September-October 2015)
Ethics in America - 462, Principles of Supervision - 422
ECE (September-October 2015)
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PF (October)
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They told this to me 6 months ago. dseminario1 Wrote:I just received a message from Excelsiors advisors stating that they don't accept Penn Foster Information Literacy anymore.... did this change happen within 2 months?
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This requirement is so dumb. It only takes about 3 hours to complete. I don't know why they are so picky about where an individual fulfills this requirement.
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Its all about $$$$ Exfactor Wrote:This requirement is so dumb. It only takes about 3 hours to complete. I don't know why they are so picky about where an individual fulfills this requirement.
Non-Traditional Undergraduate College Credits (634 SH): *FTCC Noncourse Credits (156 SH) *DSST (78 SH) *CPL (64 SH) *JST Military/ACE (48 SH) *CBA (44 SH) *CLEP (42 SH) *FEMA IS (40 SH) *FEMA EM (38 SH) *ECE/UExcel (30 SH) *PLA Portfolio (28 SH) *EMI/ACE (19 SH) *TEEX/ACE (16 SH) *CWE (11 SH) *NFA/ACE (10 SH) *Kaplan/ACE (3 SH) *CPC (2 SH) *AICP/ACE (2 SH) *Sophia/ACE (2 SH) and *FRTI-UM/ACE (1 SH).
Non-Traditional Graduate College Credits (14 SH): AMU (6 SH); NFHS (5 SH); and JSU (3 SH).
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Life Long Learning Wrote:Its all about $$$$
Possibly so, but I also washed out of 2 state schools that have also made this course a degree requirment.
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It seems like these schools are becoming more and more picky.
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Yes, soon they will probably put a cap # of tests that one can take to get that degree...
Im going all out on this ....my hope is by December ill be 112 credits in and then take the capstone and both English composition to be done
videogamesrock Wrote:It seems like these schools are becoming more and more picky.
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24 to go
CC (2012)
World Religions - A, Speech Communication - B, Intro to Sociology - A
CLEPS (August-September 2015)
Introductory Psychology - 64, Spanish Language - 80, Western Civilization I - 58, Western Civilization II - 57, Principles of Macroeconomics - 54, Principles of Microeconomics - 52, Principles of Marketing - 59, Principles of Management - 52, Information Systems - 64
DSST (September-October 2015)
Ethics in America - 462, Principles of Supervision - 422
ECE (September-October 2015)
Organizational Behavior - A, Human Resource Management - B
PF (October)
Financial Mngmt - 96
SL (October-November 2015)
Eng Comp 1 & 2 - 80, Acct 1 & 2 - 86, Bus Comm - 82, Bus Stats - 83, Biology - 74, American Govt - 83, Business Law - 84
Sophia (December 2015)
Project Management - 89
Aleks (December 2015)
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Kaplan (December 2015)
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I took the Excelsior version of this because the company I work for paid for it. I started on a Monday by reading about half of everything, and if I had to click away to something and read that too I only read about half of that too. When I went to work the next day I watched all of the videos for the course before work started because we had dial-up at the time. When I got home I started to review, but it seemed so damned easy I decided to go ahead and take the final and passed before I reached the 24 hour mark of when I started.
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