MOOC for Freshman Year Credit via ASU

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MOOCs might be a little more flexible when it comes to payment, but there are way too many community colleges with online courses that charge well under $200 per credit instate. Unless it is one of their 39 self-paced courses (hardly any of these are LL gen ed), you have to wait for edX courses to open up. I haven't really paid attention to how often most edX courses are offered, but I know many Coursera courses are only offered once per year. At least community colleges offer your typical gen ed courses every semester.

I use edx pretty heavily in our homeschool. I have 2 kids enrolled in 3 courses right now. In our case, these courses are archived, so you simply sign up and start. There are real time courses, but I've avoided these because our academic schedule is on 8 week units, and nothing in real time ever works for us. In most of the courses we've done, there is a "verification" option where you can pay a fee to receive verification that you've completed the course. I've not done this because the utility for a middle and high school student is zero (more applicable for a working professional maybe?) but the classes we've used are never typical gen eds. What would be the most interest to me, is if any of these end up as upper level at some point. All of us know that finding UL as a non-degree seeking student can be challenging, so since this process kinda goes around admissions, that aspect is appealing. For the 100/200 I can't imagine it taking off, but then again, I didn't think SL would take off lol.