TESC BSBA Capstone -- TECEP or Penn Foster

[Harpda]

After New Years I watched some inspirational video and it made me want to hurry up and get my degree; so i'm doing a full-court press and want it as soon as possible.

I'm currently in the final phase of signing up for either the Business Strategy TECEP or the Penn Foster Strategic Management 'online class' -- although I haven't decided on which one.

I just want to get the credits as soon as possible and in the easiest possible way. Does anyone have feedback on which would be better? I heard with the Penn Foster option you can hit it hard and finish early if you want to.

Any info would be greatly appreciated!

[pughsss]

I am enrolled in the Penn Foster Strategic Business Management course right now. It is completely self paced. I finished all four discussion questions in one day, and spread the four graded exams over a week. The four graded exams are worth 67% of your final grade. The one kicker is the weekly webinar classes that you must attend. It counts as class participation. You have to do three of them and they are only held once a week. The webinar is a real-time chat/discussion with the instructor about the topic of the day. So you have to wait three weeks to complete the course. I just did my second webinar last night. There is also a case study/graded project worth 33% of your final grade, that you must complete, but it does not seem to intense. You have to analyze/answer about ten questions about a particular case study, each in it's own four sentence paragraph in an essay form. Now that I am just waiting on the last webinar to complete the course, I am now taking their International Business and Financial Management courses. The course is online; however the graded exams and discussion questions come from the textbook, that is included in the course fee. I like these courses better that CLEP/DSSTs and Straighterline courses. You can spend about $100 on the TECEP and chance it, or you could spend a little over $200 and guarantee yourself you will pass in three weeks.

[michaelfrye1970]

I am getting ready to start taking courses with Penn Foster but I have not seen anyone that had done the internation business. I like the self paced course concept as well. Does the Internation Business have a proctored final?

[keymommy2000]

I just finished penn fosters "strategic management" Its honestly a piece of cake, i averaged a 97%, you can honestly get through it in a weeks time if it wasn't for the 3 week required webinar...

[Danny Mac]

How did you sign up for the PF Strategic Management course? I have already completed the Financial Management course but I can't find Strategic Management on their website.
As a side question, I need to complete 2 more courses under business electives. Are there any other Penn Foster business classes that I could take to fulfill the business electives.
Thanks so much!

[pughsss]

I am getting ready to start taking courses with Penn Foster but I have not seen anyone that had done the internation business. I like the self paced course concept as well. Does the Internation Business have a proctored final?

Yes the syllabus says there is a proctored final, but I read in the PennFoster course catalog the final proctored exams are for degree candidates. I am transferring the credit to TESC via ACE.

[pughsss]

I call the PennFoster Workforce Development telephone number and ordered the courses. Just google "PennFoster Workforce Development". The number is also gloating around in a number of posts on this forum. On a side note how was the Financial Management course?