Great Minds Needed

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by kavade, Apr 18, 2015.

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  1. kavade

    kavade Member

    Or at least minds that have had their morning coffee - I haven't.

    I've been looking through answers I got before to a similar situation, and have tried to find
    info using search, but I'm not sure how to phrase the question. So, help please?

    Just now finishing a grad lit course at WNMU. Cost was fine, quality was fine, length of term drove me mad. It's regular semester. I will be, as of next week, within 3 classes of the MALS at Excelsior. The last two I must take at Excelsior, so that leaves one I can do elsewhere. And I'm broke right now, so don't want to do it at Excelsior. And it would be agony to do 16 weeks again at WNMU. No, no, no. Please - No!

    I checked out Jennifer's suggestion for Annenberg - CSU, but an education class won't work. Sooo, I've been wondering if maybe I could use a MOOC (as if I knew what that is -only vaguely) or some free online course work, and later when I have money get it verified
    and use it for Excelsior's ...whatever that portfolio arrangement thingy is.

    It's a brave new world and I don't understand it. But I seem to remember reading that there are organizations that will verify work and credit for a fee. I'm flailing around here, folks, I don't know what my options are. Is there anyone out there who knows, and would be kind enough to tell me, how these free classes or the MOOC thing work, and if I could devise something in that fashion that might be acceptable to EC?

    Now I will go get coffee. Apologies if this is incoherent. As I said, I'm not clear on options.
     
  2. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    A couple of the Annenberg/CSU courses are coded as natural sciences.
     
  3. kavade

    kavade Member

    Really? I'll go back and look again. Thanks for pointing that out. Maybe that would work.
     
  4. Michelle

    Michelle Member

    I have recently discovered that I dislike full semesters too. Summer terms are usually shorter. I checked the wnmu calendar and it looks like they offer three options for summer classes - the month of June, June to August, and the month of July. Since you just need one more class, it might be easiest to take it at wnmu during the shorter summer term instead of filling out new paperwork somewhere else and then needing to eventually order a transcript from an additional school.
     
  5. kavade

    kavade Member

    Well, yes, but that means I have to wait for the term to start, and then there will be the final two classes at EC. I can't do all three.im hoping to be finished with this MA by sept.So I need to start ASAP.
    But yeah you're right about the hassle factor
     
  6. RacerBoy

    RacerBoy New Member

    I hope that so this will work. Really nice.
     

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