04-10-2023, 10:02 AM
Provider: OnlineDegree.com
Course: Introduction to Marketing & Strategy
Course content: 19 lessons each consisting of one to four main lecture videos and two or three related YouTube videos, an engagement exercise, and a 5 to 7 question quiz that covers the main lecture only. There are supplemental readings, but I did not use them.
Final exam format: Proctored by RPNow. $9. Multiple choice. 50 questions.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Verbatim. Many of the final test questions were also quiz questions. Save each quiz to PDF and review it before the final. No feedback is provided on quizzes, so you don't know what you got wrong on quizzes, though.
Time taken on course: About 16 hours over a single weekend. You are forced to watch every video in order to proceed through the course.
Familiarity with subject before course: Over 20 years experience with sales and marketing for small business. So I was familiar with some of the concepts, maybe a quarter of the course. However, all the strategy, branding, and other "corporate" stuff was brand new to me.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: The main video lectures contain the material you are quizzed and tested on. The YouTube videos repeat concepts from the main lectures. The main lecture slide presentations are pretty good, but the narrator speaks incredibly slow and monotone. I watched all the lecture videos on 2x speed, and then did something else while waiting for the timer function to let me move on. The course would have been great if it used the Davar/Coopersmith format and simply gave you a PDF of all the slides. Quite a few of the quiz questions are in the format of "What company was mentioned in the lecture as an example of XYZ?". That felt somewhat obnoxious. But all in all, it was a good course. I did learn some things, and you can't complain about the price.
1-10 Difficulty level: 1
Course: Introduction to Marketing & Strategy
Course content: 19 lessons each consisting of one to four main lecture videos and two or three related YouTube videos, an engagement exercise, and a 5 to 7 question quiz that covers the main lecture only. There are supplemental readings, but I did not use them.
Final exam format: Proctored by RPNow. $9. Multiple choice. 50 questions.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Verbatim. Many of the final test questions were also quiz questions. Save each quiz to PDF and review it before the final. No feedback is provided on quizzes, so you don't know what you got wrong on quizzes, though.
Time taken on course: About 16 hours over a single weekend. You are forced to watch every video in order to proceed through the course.
Familiarity with subject before course: Over 20 years experience with sales and marketing for small business. So I was familiar with some of the concepts, maybe a quarter of the course. However, all the strategy, branding, and other "corporate" stuff was brand new to me.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: The main video lectures contain the material you are quizzed and tested on. The YouTube videos repeat concepts from the main lectures. The main lecture slide presentations are pretty good, but the narrator speaks incredibly slow and monotone. I watched all the lecture videos on 2x speed, and then did something else while waiting for the timer function to let me move on. The course would have been great if it used the Davar/Coopersmith format and simply gave you a PDF of all the slides. Quite a few of the quiz questions are in the format of "What company was mentioned in the lecture as an example of XYZ?". That felt somewhat obnoxious. But all in all, it was a good course. I did learn some things, and you can't complain about the price.
1-10 Difficulty level: 1
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Completed: TESU: BSAST Nuclear Engineering Technology (2004)
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