Is quick RA possible thru TEL Learning?

[thecontrarian]

Hi everyone, I've gone through the Modern States College Algebra material for CLEP and am 80% confident but need some more work before I take the exam. Math is just not my strong thing. Its not I'm that bad at it, but I don't find it as easy as written stuff. 

I was thinking of switching and jumping over to TEL Learning. Benefit =  more thorough review of my weak areas + it bumps up my RA so I can switch one of my harder courses planned at TESU over to SDC (which seems to be lot easier).

But will it really take 150 contact hours for a subject I'm familiar with to go thru TEL Learning? That's what it says on their site. Could I just zip thru the material with which I'm familiar, focus on my problem area's and get thru that course a lot quicker than.

I can't find much material on TEL Learning in the forum so just thought I'd check with anyone who's been thru one of their courses.

[ss20ts]

Where are you planning on earning your degree from?

[rachel83az]

TEL courses require at least two proctored exams per course. Otherwise, you can go through them at whatever speed works for you.

[thecontrarian]

Where are you planning on earning your degree from?

TESU. BSBA Accounting.

[dfrecore]

If you need RA credit, it certainly can't hurt. It's self-paced, you have a whole year to do it, so you can certainly speed through what you are familiar with and focus on what you're not.

OTOH, I'm not certain you really need College Algebra to get through the BSBA coursework, nor do you probably need it much for real life. So my choice would be to take courses you might actually enjoy through TEL, and get that math out of the way via CLEP. It certainly can't hurt to take the CLEP (it's free) and then do TEL if you don't pass.

[LevelUP]

Hi everyone, I've gone through the Modern States College Algebra material for CLEP and am 80% confident but need some more work before I take the exam. Math is just not my strong thing. Its not I'm that bad at it, but I don't find it as easy as written stuff. 

I was thinking of switching and jumping over to TEL Learning. Benefit =  more thorough review of my weak areas + it bumps up my RA so I can switch one of my harder courses planned at TESU over to SDC (which seems to be lot easier).

But will it really take 150 contact hours for a subject I'm familiar with to go thru TEL Learning? That's what it says on their site. Could I just zip thru the material with which I'm familiar, focus on my problem area's and get thru that course a lot quicker than.

I can't find much material on TEL Learning in the forum so just thought I'd check with anyone who's been thru one of their courses.

It took me 5 min to go through each module of U.S. History 2, so that would be only 2 hours for all the modules. 

If you download the pdfs, read only the bold print and lists, you can speed through these courses if you have some experience.

I would estimate 1-2 hours for each paper, so around 10 hours to do an entire course if you can accelerate.

There is low-hanging fruit there for subjects that you already have some pre-existing knowledge of.  The exams only count for 40% of your grade, and everything else is open-book.  Make 80% average on the open-book stuff. You only need around 50% on the exams to pass.

Click on a course, then click on "Review Course Information."  Then you can see the entire course/syllabus and do the quizzes for free.
https://www.tellearning.org/courses-on-demand/

[bjcheung77]

TEL Learning/ONU, etc are courses, it can be quick but you're still subject to that timeline for their courses. If you go the exam route such as TECEPS and UEXCELS, if you know the material really well - you can test it right away... TECEPs are just pass/fail, UEXCELs are graded.