University of the People Experiences

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Horrible.

1: Some instructors are lazy: they generate LJ feedback via chatGPT, there is no instructor graded stuff besides LJ on some courses. Comparative programming for example, we do not even have programming assignments to submit. All you do is write discussion forum entries, get graded by peers, and you grade other entries of which some are either purely written by chatGPT or its written is a very difficult to understand english. (I can literally see if its chatGPT generated from looking at it. Conclusion: While some instructors really invest their time, some literally do nothing.

2: Peer grading: What the ? You get graded by your peers, they might say "Good job, everything is perfect" and still give you 7/10 or 8/10 or even worse. A lot of peer submissions sometimes are incomplete. For example, the PA has 5 Questions, peers only provide 1 Answer. Or the answers are purely generated by chatGPT. You might think, what do I care? Well, this gets boring and demotivating. So, grading poor work is a pain in the [insert word], and being graded by some of the people is also tiring. Constructive feedback is always welcome.

3: Content and books: Some are 30 years old. Some books are are scans without without OCR (You can not ctrl + F and look, you pretty much have to read the hole chapter to find what you look for).

4: Website is so broken and slow. Even moodle is buggy too.

5: Sometimes things on Self Quizzes or Graded Quizzes are not even covered by course material. And sometimes, graded quiz questions and self quiz questions are not even related.

6: Did not get regional accreditation and might not get it for a long time, which makes the degree useless for immigration purposes.

But only the first 3 Issues are relevant to study quality. Besides that, this kind of program is for people who have a strong will and are motivated to really learn stuff. Even going beyond course material.