Straighterline Introduction to Environmental Science

[adavis84]

Yuck, that sounds awful. I can't imagine what purpose they think this serves from an learning standpoint. I ran this question by my wife (she has an M.Ed. from a big name school and works in education). She said she's never heard of such a test/assignment design approach.

Somewhat related: I had trouble with the instructional content of a SL course (Calc I). I contacted SL about the videos (produced by a third party, Thinkwell) being out of sequence in such a way that it was detrimental to the course. Another member here also did the same before I did. We both received replies that the "content expert" reviewed the video sequence and said it was correct. My reply with solid reasons why the video sequence made the lessons unnecessarily more difficult (citing the original sequence from the video producers) went unaddressed. However, I now see the course is listed as "Updated." So maybe they got the point?

It's a bummer they seem to spit out questions from the textbook's solution manual without any additional effort to create appropriately challenging assessments. Your experience plus what I dealt with in the Calc course seem to me to demonstrate a lack of attention to detail and interest in creating useful learning tools. Hard to complain at the price/speed, but I quite often feel like they're leaving excellent opportunities on the table.