07-04-2011, 09:44 PM
I've taken full time (2-3 at EC + 1 at UMUC) courses for the last 2 years. I mainly did it because I have the Post 9/11 GI Bill and wanted to get the housing money!
Most of the classes haven't been that hard, both my physical ones (at UMUC) and my online ones at EC. I had done online courses at UMUC a while back, I find the EC ones to be a bit easier as (with a few exceptions) they let you know up front what you're doing each week so you can work ahead (UMUC tried to keep it more like a physical class, which IMO defeats the whole purpose of taking online courses).
Most of my professors at EC have been fairly knowledgeable. Only issues I've had was one professor that had strange ideas about what APA format is (especially what an abstract is), and the absolute worst was Physics... didn't get graded assignments for a month (on a 2 month course, so took a midterm with no feedback). I (and many other students) complained to the school and things got straightened out pretty quick.
On the good side, I just started a Computer Forensics course with them (one of my last, December and I'm done!). The professor has a pretty impressive background, including authoring/co-authoring over 40 computer/IT related books.
I think overall the experience has been good, as even in B&M schools you sometimes get a crappy professor (and in 2 years of full time study, I've only had one really bad one and one that I just had to adjust to what he wanted, material of the course was fine). I have seen a few mistakes in some of the coursework, specifically quizes that have the wrong answer (or multiple right answers). Every professor has been great with those problems, I just inform them that I think there is a mistake and give detailed reasons why (citing the book whenever possible). In every case they have agreed with me, corrected my grade, and notified the school to fix it for the next class.
Most of the classes haven't been that hard, both my physical ones (at UMUC) and my online ones at EC. I had done online courses at UMUC a while back, I find the EC ones to be a bit easier as (with a few exceptions) they let you know up front what you're doing each week so you can work ahead (UMUC tried to keep it more like a physical class, which IMO defeats the whole purpose of taking online courses).
Most of my professors at EC have been fairly knowledgeable. Only issues I've had was one professor that had strange ideas about what APA format is (especially what an abstract is), and the absolute worst was Physics... didn't get graded assignments for a month (on a 2 month course, so took a midterm with no feedback). I (and many other students) complained to the school and things got straightened out pretty quick.
On the good side, I just started a Computer Forensics course with them (one of my last, December and I'm done!). The professor has a pretty impressive background, including authoring/co-authoring over 40 computer/IT related books.
I think overall the experience has been good, as even in B&M schools you sometimes get a crappy professor (and in 2 years of full time study, I've only had one really bad one and one that I just had to adjust to what he wanted, material of the course was fine). I have seen a few mistakes in some of the coursework, specifically quizes that have the wrong answer (or multiple right answers). Every professor has been great with those problems, I just inform them that I think there is a mistake and give detailed reasons why (citing the book whenever possible). In every case they have agreed with me, corrected my grade, and notified the school to fix it for the next class.
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