Hi everyone,

I have question about online courses between TESC and EC.
I have noticed that EC classes tend to look labor intensive(LOTS of WRITING) and TESC, well they look kind of simple for lack of a better word(Not Labor Intensive;ie; LOTS of Writing)

Does anyone have any experience with taking classes with any of these two colleges?

Bat,
On that same note, When I spoke with the Excelsior counselor, she told me that I was better off taking classes from another college like Central Texas College because of the amount of writing I would have to do with EC. Then just transfer the classes in. That's exactly what I'm doing with the lower level courses, and test out of course.

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Excelsior College
AAS Computer Technology
BSLS Admin/Mngmt

TESC
BA History - 6 CLEPs/DSSTs and one Class to go

TUI University
MS in Public Health - Start June 2010

CLEP
Spanish - 77/50
Freshman Comp. - 51/50
English Comp w/ Essay - 50/50
Social Science & Hist - 54/50
Info Sys & Comp App - 56/50
Intro Sociology - 61/50
Prin of Mngmt - 68/50
US History I - 52/50
US History II - 59/50
DSST
Civil War & Reconstruction - 59/47
Rise & Fall of Soviet Union - 51/45
Drug and Alcohol - 49/49
Here's to Your Hlth - 56/48
Intro To Comp - 56/45
Prin of Sup - 51/46
Technical Writing 61/48

Quote: There are no stupid questions, only stupid people. "Mr. Garrison"

I took the International Business requirement at TESC and had to write 6 papers between 4-6 pages in length. With EC the classes I took required no such writing except for the class project. No experience with COSC.

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Brian in Virginia Beach, VA
Currently enrolled in the MS, MIS program at University of Illinois at Springfield and the AAS, Accounting program at Tidewater Community College
BSBA, CIS, Thomas Edison State College
AS, Social Sciences, Tidewater Community College
AS, Business Administration, Tidewater Community College
AOS, CIS, Southeast College of Technology

I signed up with LSU for SOCL 4461 Criminology, it looks like they only require 2 position papers 5 pages each.

80% of the grade is from the midterm and final, and you up to 9 months to finish.

So that will knock out 3 more upper level credits. You can finish the class in 6 weeks even with the stipulations of no more 3 assignments turned in a week.

I have only taken one online class and that was with TESC. I wrote over 100 pages and I only did 9 of the 10 assignments. My class was taught without the discussion board I have heard if you take classes as guided study wuth the discussion board it is less writing papers, but then you need to post more discussions. By the way it was only a 200 level course!

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Linda
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” Buddhist Proverb
EXAMS TAKEN
1/07 TECEP Psyc. of Women (Needed/acheived) 60/74
1/08 DSST Tech. Writing 46/64
4/07 TECEP Word Processing Fund 65/75
4/07 CLEP Info Syst & Comp App. 50/64
3/07 DSST History of the Vietnam War 44/66
11/07 DSST Intro to World Religions 48/65
5/08 CLEP Analyzing & Interp. Lit. 50/69
5/29/08 CLEP Intro to Psych. 50/65
6/12/08 CLEP Intro to Sociology 50/69
1/27/09 CLEP Social Science & History 50/66
05/09 3 FEMA
1/15/10 DSST Environment & Humanity 46/67
2/5/10 DSST Foundations Of Education 46/68
2/19/10 ALEKS Begining Algebra
3/6/10 CLEP Intro to Education Psychology 50/63

Planned Lifespan Devopmental DSST; Natural Science CLEP; Literacy Instruct in the Elementary School ECE; 2-3 FEMA credits;
+ 43 B&M CC credits and 9 TESC credits. AA Degree 9/08
Eventually a BA in Natural Science/Mathmatics:103 credits down 17 to go

I'm not sure who told you about the lack of work at TESC, but I've taken three online classes and there was a lot of writing and work.

I saw it online at their web site, for Social Science Research Methods, 6 modules with 4 or 5 Writing assignments at 2 pages.

EC wants 2000+ papers and 4-6 essays at 500-1500 words.

During my online Managerial Communications class at TESC, I had to contribute to the online discussions, type maybe 3 or 4 one page papers, and then my final. That's it. Which was great because I hate writing haha.

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Jesse
BA, Thomas Edison State College

I am no Kurt Vonnegut , I despise writing research papers, so the least amount of paperwork along with multiple guess tests gets my college money, I just wish I could test out of my major.