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RE: Purdue Global: Free Courses for Covid-Impacted Workers - NoStudentNoCry - 05-20-2020
natshar, have you actually checked Purdue's website? All info is there....
In short:
If you take 1 for free - that's it, you pay full price tag for any additional classes.
If you don't use 1 free class, you can opt for discounted tuition and take 4 classes (but IMO it's quite a lot): https://online.purdue.edu/opportunity/discounted-college-courses-online
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - NoStudentNoCry - 05-20-2020
(05-20-2020, 11:28 AM)harrypotter Wrote: doesn’t explicitly say only 1 course can be taken for free (though that probably is the case)
It actually explicitly says that:
https://online.purdue.edu/documents/terms-and-conditions.pdf
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - MNomadic - 05-20-2020
Yes it's only 1 free course and that was confirmed when I spoke to them. Poor wording on my part. Regardless, it's a free RA course and they have like 25 to choose from. There's really no reason not to take advantage (if you're eligible). People are constantly trying to get RA credits for one reason or another.
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - eriehiker - 05-20-2020
I noticed that there are three courses that would presumably be upper level within the Purdue Global free classes:
CM460: Strategic Communication
HS305: Research Methods for Health Sciences
NS305: Food Safety and Microbiology
I see communications, health sciences and nutrition science for the prefixes.
Also, I would presume that it would be possible to fail this class and have a failing grade on a Purdue Global transcript. That would be different from alternative credit. Somebody chime in to verify. Or is this like the earned credits from ASU and Doane?
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - ARhead - 05-20-2020
I've been seeing a number of free RA courses or deals on them lately on the forum, since I haven't been here for long I'd just like to know if this is par the course or is this simply a response by schools to the virus situation?
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - eriehiker - 05-20-2020
(05-20-2020, 01:20 PM)ARhead Wrote: I've been seeing a number of free RA courses or deals on them lately on the forum, since I haven't been here for long I'd just like to know if this is par the course or is this simply a response by schools to the virus situation?
Much of what is going on right now is a response to the virus situation. Some of it is based on community response. The colleges/companies are trying to help out. Some of this is advertising. If Purdue can get a student to take one course, they are more likely to take another course and pay for it later. At the very least, it generates buzz, like it has on this forum. That is a totally fair trade. If Purdue wants to give away classes, then this forum should talk about it a lot. Some online schools/companies will make more money with the given situation.
Colleges are rightly fearful of what the fall will look like. Purdue can hedge its bets by bringing in a lot of new online students. I'll give the University of Arizona Executive Education as an example. They offered a pay-what-you-can executive certificate. 25% of students paid - including me - and now they are following it up with additional pay-what-you-can executive courses throughout the summer. This could be a nice additional revenue stream for them when in-person classes are likely to bring in less revenue.
It could be a paradigm shift in education, although I hope that it isn't because I like traditional colleges.
Some of this has happened before. Up until about two years ago, there were about a dozen free classes for college credit and the cheap ones were growing in number. Of course, that number grew too large and the Big Three have been moving away from ACE/NCCRS. It was probably never going to shift to a completely free model.
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - LongRoad - 05-20-2020
Purdue was fast. Minutes after I sent in for information, I got a call. These are questions still on Purdue, but on a tangent. 1. The course I want, HR, says 5 quarter hours. Does that translate to 3 or more credit hours for a course? 2. It's listed as a lower level course at Purdue, but an upper level course at COSC. (I'm going to apply to COSC at some point.) Does anyone have any experience with how COSC would assign credit? Maybe not Purdue's HR, but another schools LL course being accepted by COSC as an UP course.
Thanks for all of the board members who are researching these helpful courses.
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - Clepper43 - 05-20-2020
(05-20-2020, 02:45 PM)LongRoad Wrote: Purdue was fast. Minutes after I sent in for information, I got a call. These are questions still on Purdue, but on a tangent. 1. The course I want, HR, says 5 quarter hours. Does that translate to 3 or more credit hours for a course? 2. It's listed as a lower level course at Purdue, but an upper level course at COSC. (I'm going to apply to COSC at some point.) Does anyone have any experience with how COSC would assign credit? Maybe not Purdue's HR, but another schools LL course being accepted by COSC as an UP course.
Thanks for all of the board members who are researching these helpful courses.
I'm curious how you knew the course was upper level at COSC? A similar course you mean?
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - MNomadic - 05-20-2020
(05-20-2020, 02:45 PM)LongRoad Wrote: Purdue was fast. Minutes after I sent in for information, I got a call. These are questions still on Purdue, but on a tangent. 1. The course I want, HR, says 5 quarter hours. Does that translate to 3 or more credit hours for a course? 2. It's listed as a lower level course at Purdue, but an upper level course at COSC. (I'm going to apply to COSC at some point.) Does anyone have any experience with how COSC would assign credit? Maybe not Purdue's HR, but another schools LL course being accepted by COSC as an UP course.
Thanks for all of the board members who are researching these helpful courses.
5 quarter hours = 3.33 semester hours(multiply by 2/3)
RE: Purdue Global classes feedback? - LongRoad - 05-20-2020
(05-20-2020, 02:54 PM)Clepper43 Wrote:Yes, I should have been clearer.(05-20-2020, 02:45 PM)LongRoad Wrote: Purdue was fast. Minutes after I sent in for information, I got a call. These are questions still on Purdue, but on a tangent. 1. The course I want, HR, says 5 quarter hours. Does that translate to 3 or more credit hours for a course? 2. It's listed as a lower level course at Purdue, but an upper level course at COSC. (I'm going to apply to COSC at some point.) Does anyone have any experience with how COSC would assign credit? Maybe not Purdue's HR, but another schools LL course being accepted by COSC as an UP course.
Thanks for all of the board members who are researching these helpful courses.
I'm curious how you knew the course was upper level at COSC? A similar course you mean?
COSC's catalog, https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/current/courses/, has this
HRM 310 Human Resource Management 3 UD N listed under these headings Course Number Name CR Level Gen Ed Code* Liberal Arts. That looks to me, and I could CERTAINLY be wrong, that COSC has a Human Recourse Management Course that is an UD (upper level) course.