Sophia Quality... Questionable?

[Lacedonia4]

Hey everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted on the forums but I just can't help but bring this up. 

I was taking some Sophia courses to test them out during the free period and I couldn't believe how easy they are. I took Sociology in just a day (just over 2 hours) and that's one of the longer ones! 

The most disappointing thing to me was the practice final. It's only 25 questions long, open book and not proctored. They of course have that typing test to verify that it's you, but you could have 10 people in the room helping you, or you could type the sentence and walk away to have someone else take the test. Not to mention, just opening other tabs on your computer, which it didn't seem to specifically say not to do. Although I didn't do that because it seemed like cheating and I wasn't sure of the rules, and it was so stupid easy I didn't need to. I didn't even need to use the open book material they prompt you to check during the test. Additionally, I went through it as quickly as I could so I didn't read one line of text from the transcripts, I only went through and took the quizzes and milestones. I don't say this to brag - rather to point out that I think anyone would do just fine with that method. Especially on the final, since some of the questions were so blatantly obvious a 10 year old could answer them. 

I understand that people shouldn't cheat even if they won't get caught, but it all just seems a little ridiculous. I know it's nice to have courses that are easy - I'd be lying if I said I didn't always look for the easiest CLEP, DSST, Straighterline and Study.com courses to meet my requirements. But something that easy (and easy to cheat on) seems like it really lowers the integrity of what it means for a course to be ACE approved. 

I'm honestly pretty disappointed to see this. But I'm curious to hear other opinions on i

It is all subjective, I took lots of sophia courses and am very grateful, some courses were harder than others but, it all boils down to age, level of education, experience and what study rigor you are accustomed to. As one that was initially a foreign student, I found most courses in America very easy, including at brick and mortar colleges, the only obstacle in US when it comes to study is the cost of education but the way courses are structured they are not as hard as in Europe. I do prefer the American way, more relaxing, education should be fun. In Europe it is free but it is very hard. Back to sophia courses, the only course I found hard was algebra, while having studied philosophy in the past I found ethics courses easy. It is all subjective. I just do not get why some are upset now that the freebie is over. So what it is too easy, you are not obligated to choose them, you can look for harder courses if you like a challenge. But just because it is too easy for you, it doesn't detract the value nor makes it easier for others. And yes also brick and mortar colleges offer non proctored, open book finals.