10-11-2024, 01:35 PM
Provider: Sophia
Course: organizational behavior
Course content: text adapted from the OpenStax textbook and 11 or 12 short case-study videos about a fictional company
Final exam format: I don't remember. They gave plenty of time to finish, though.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Most was familiar, but the questions were terribly written so a lot of times you just had no idea if you picked the answer they were looking for.
Time taken on course: A few days because the assignments were time-consuming
Familiarity with subject before course: I had previously read a lot of the textbook for a different class
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I actually enjoyed the touchstones for the most part (maybe about 55-65% enjoyment). The problem was that Sophia lists so many questions that you're supposed to answer in each assignment that there is no way you can keep it to the low-end of the required word count. As I said elsewhere on this board, the milestones and tutorial questions were frustrating: "Many of the questions are neither aligned with previous types of questions nor with the text, and I spend a lot of time trying to mindread what the exam writer was looking for. Many also have multiple correct answers-- I have flagged as many as I have the energy to for Sophia to look over. Hopefully this is all because it's a new course and they will incorporate feedback, but it is frustrating to be one of the guinea pigs." Doing it over, it might have been less of a headache to go through Study.com.
1-10 Difficulty level: 5—the material itself wasn't difficult, but putting up with the poorly written exam questions and the overly detailed assignment specifications made the experience challenging
Course: organizational behavior
Course content: text adapted from the OpenStax textbook and 11 or 12 short case-study videos about a fictional company
Final exam format: I don't remember. They gave plenty of time to finish, though.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Most was familiar, but the questions were terribly written so a lot of times you just had no idea if you picked the answer they were looking for.
Time taken on course: A few days because the assignments were time-consuming
Familiarity with subject before course: I had previously read a lot of the textbook for a different class
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I actually enjoyed the touchstones for the most part (maybe about 55-65% enjoyment). The problem was that Sophia lists so many questions that you're supposed to answer in each assignment that there is no way you can keep it to the low-end of the required word count. As I said elsewhere on this board, the milestones and tutorial questions were frustrating: "Many of the questions are neither aligned with previous types of questions nor with the text, and I spend a lot of time trying to mindread what the exam writer was looking for. Many also have multiple correct answers-- I have flagged as many as I have the energy to for Sophia to look over. Hopefully this is all because it's a new course and they will incorporate feedback, but it is frustrating to be one of the guinea pigs." Doing it over, it might have been less of a headache to go through Study.com.
1-10 Difficulty level: 5—the material itself wasn't difficult, but putting up with the poorly written exam questions and the overly detailed assignment specifications made the experience challenging
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