Starting my M.Ed. Program on 11/11

Congrats, Acolyte, for completing half of your journey.

Less is more, and today's MS PowerPoint's AI-enhanced Designer can assist me with lots of impressive ideas for presentation.

BTW, from the score, experience, and your assigned work, I believe the University guys could easily identify who you really are on their list ... Could that bother you?

 

I'm not sure what you mean? DO you mean that someone from ACE might see these posts on this forum? I'm only sharing my experiences - not intending anything nefarious. This is most likely my last college experience. I'm 54 and this is my second Master's. I'm just sharing with the hope that it let's someone know what to expect if they chose to go with ACE.

 

The ACE Experience
12.30.24

Things have been quiet for ACE over the holidays. Classes start up again on 01/6/25. I have received notice that the class will be "published and unlocked" on 01/3/25. Also, the tuition bill for the class will also be posted to my account on 1/3/25.
There has been lots of chatter on the ACE portal chat and people starting groups on the "GroupMe" app for the upcoming classes. I held off on taking the initiative of starting a group for my upcoming class to see if anyone else would, and someone did.

As promised, here are some graphics I built for the papers in the first class, submitted here just as examples of how basic they could be and still fulfill the requirements.
I decided to make all of mine match in style so that when the final paper/document was compiled from the separate assignments it would feel like a cohesive doc, but other students submitted a wide range of style and complexity in their graphics. More next week after classes start.

 

The ACE Experience
01.07.25

This first session I am taking "Design of Instructional Media"

Classes for the new quarter technically started yesterday, although they "published" the classes on Friday. The first week seems a lot like the first week of the previous class:

• Mandatory Attendance confirmation
• Pre-Course self evaluation
• "Getting to Know You" post on the discussion forum about who you are and why you are here
• A 2-3 page paper incorporating a graphic representation of the value you bring to a client as an instructional designer. (This class is all about abstracting concepts to visuals)
• Three video "lectures" (about 12 minutes of content)
• A discussion post about your graphic paper
• Two responses to classmates about their posts

Oh, and something the forum may find interesting. American College of Education (ACE) is 20 years old this year.

Here's a little timeline they put together:
https://ace.edu/campaigns/ace-20th-anniversary/?_cldee=Jtxuu5xmgbff301zowvmEPWU8PeVOSdYmnpJcJkBs9X973CThyvZQ4273qjfZjWK&recipientid=lead-8b2e321054d6ee119079000d3a4f1235-b34cab9e282741e7920c90f39e4910e7&utm_source=ClickDimensions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ACE%2020th%20Anniversary&esid=a1414bab-d8b0-ef11-b8e8-7c1e5247ba68