Study.com acquires Enhanced Prep (K-12 tutoring, College Prep Provider)

[bjcheung77]

Hmm, interesting!  Study.com is growing faster than I was thinking and in order to accelerate even more, they're buying up companies instead of creating their own divisions and then expanding them.  I guess  that's one way of doing things...

Link: Study.com Acquires College Prep Tutoring Company, Enhanced Prep (prnewswire.com)

[LevelUP]

Hmm, interesting!  Study.com is growing faster than I was thinking and in order to accelerate even more, they're buying up companies instead of creating their own divisions and then expanding them.  I guess  that's one way of doing things...

Link: Study.com Acquires College Prep Tutoring Company, Enhanced Prep (prnewswire.com)

Study.com has added basically no new courses since 2020. In fact, they let a few courses expire.

Five more courses, including one course that is needed for the SNHU CS degree is set to expire by the end of April
https://support.study.com/support/soluti...ng-courses

They may be growing revenue but losing courses.

[smarterby1degree]

It's great that they are adding things but I think this is why they've lost so many classes in the past year. I think they divide their time on a lot of projects and they're not focusing on college credit. Sophia is focusing on college credit so they keep coming out with new classes. I know someone that applied to Excelsior in October and they denied 5 classes from Study as duplicates. It was ridiculous! Seems safer to take the classes on Sophia now.

[bjcheung77]

Unfortunately, things happen when the focus is divided with several areas, from test prep, to college credit, to K-12, they're trying their hand in too many projects... I didn't think they would let courses go and expire, most likely enrollment of those courses weren't enough to keep them in the roster... At least they keep us updated that they're adding/changing lessons within courses and informing us which will expire, or trying to be more transparent, some companies leave you in the dark and one day, poof they're gone!

[dfrecore]

For SDC: if you look at the courses they've dropped, it's ones that were not useful to a degree at the top schools here (TESU & Excelsior). If schools don't accept courses, there's no reason to pay the big bucks to keep them ACE-approved; and if students aren't taking them, same.

Developing courses costs a lot, so I'm not surprised they did a ton of developing, and then are now letting things shake out to see what's working and what isn't. ACE approval is expensive and time-consuming.


As for Sophia, they are adding, but they've also dropped courses; and they changed names to something silly or vice versa. So it SOUNDS like they've been adding like crazy, but I think they've netted out to fewer than you might think. Some of the course names make it difficult to transfer in, because schools don't know what to do with them:
Taking Charge of Your Economic Future (stupid) >> Personal Finance
Accounting >> Financial Accounting (clarified, should have been this all along)
Discover the Writer in You >> Workplace Writing I (still no idea what this is)
The Power of Persuasion >> Workplace Writing II (still no idea what this is)
Communication at Work >> Workplace Communication
Intro to Sociology >> Intro to Sociology: Embracing Diversity & Collaboration (ridiculous)
Intro to Psychology >> Intro to Psychology: Smarter Decisions Through Psychology (ridiculous, fewer schools take this as Psych I now, and it's a very popular requirement for many degrees)
Topics in US History: Learn from the Past, Prepare for the Future (stupid - and already have US History I & II, which are as much as is needed in most cases)

They've also added written assignments to almost all new courses, and to older ones as well.

And STILL no American Government!!! Why?

[MrPanda]

"Intro to Sociology >> Intro to Sociology: Embracing Diversity & Collaboration
Intro to Psychology >> Intro to Psychology: Smarter Decisions Through Psychology"

These kind of titles are those that we would use for a seminar or workshop of a few days. We could use a title like that in order to tell people what´s our event about, trying to look more interesting. However, there´s no point in trying to make a gen ed course "appealing", since people have to take them anyway, and what matters is transferability.