Straighterline Introduction to Environmental Science

[Leherself]

Honestly, I haven't been at all impressed with Straighterline on the whole. As a reasonably cheap and fast source of ACE credit, it's not bad, especially since you can do it all at home. As a learning tool, it's terrible. The quizzes don't follow the lectures at all (and on some courses they don't even seem to follow the book all that well), and the weirdly specific questions make it so that learning the material doesn't even necessarily get you a good score on the tests. Pretty much the only skill I've been improving is being able to search ebooks quickly. Heck, at this point I'm pretty much giving up on the economics courses - I'm going to end up CLEP-ing out of those after all, because I just can't handle the sheer *tedium* of so many goddamn long multiple choice quizzes. The Business Communications course has a lot of quizzes too, but they're mostly 10-question chapter quizzes. Whoever designed the economics courses and decided that a 40-question quiz after every single chapter was a good idea is a sadist.

Saylor isn't really better, either, since they haven't apparently figured out the difference between creating a course and creating an electronic encyclopedia of everything that's ever been published on a particular subject.