(04-08-2018, 03:52 PM)nashpond Wrote: I just looked today and Psych 311: Physiological Psychology and Social Science 108: Ethics in the Social Sciences are both available for credit on Study.com now. 

I hope TESU will give UL credit for them, although I am not holding my breath.  They don't have a project listed as part of the courses and neither is listed on ACE or NCCRS, yet.  My subscription runs out on April 20, so I'm going to scramble and get them done anyway.

Oh, how I wish it would work!  Those are my last two courses for my BA.  I'm working on the capstone now.  It would be terrific to get the last ones done cheaply at Study.com

Leah

(04-08-2018, 05:42 PM)Merlin Wrote: I saw them as well but didn't see them on ACE or NCCRS so I have them listed on my spreadsheet as pending. I assume that means they are approved but just pending an update to the websites to show the listing. Though I have several other courses on my list that are in the same state and have been for a couple months now. Until they are officially listed, I'm keeping them in non-credit bearing, pending approval category. Hopefully, we'll see a bunch of newly approved courses appear shortly.

Since they listed as 300-level courses, Study.com intends them to be UL and is expecting an UL evaluation from ACE and/or NCCRS. If they get an UL eval, it is likely that TESU will honor it. If they don't get that, it is possible that Study.com will pull them down and make changes to get approved as UL. (This appears to be what is going on with some of the other courses that were on my "coming soon" list but then disappeared.)

(04-08-2018, 05:55 PM)dfrecore Wrote:

(04-08-2018, 05:42 PM)Merlin Wrote: I saw them as well but didn't see them on ACE or NCCRS so I have them listed on my spreadsheet as pending. I assume that means they are approved but just pending an update to the websites to show the listing. Though I have several other courses on my list that are in the same state and have been for a couple months now. Until they are officially listed, I'm keeping them in non-credit bearing, pending approval category. Hopefully, we'll see a bunch of newly approved courses appear shortly.

Since they listed as 300-level courses, Study.com intends them to be UL and is expecting an UL evaluation from ACE and/or NCCRS. If they get an UL eval, it is likely that TESU will honor it. If they don't get that, it is possible that Study.com will pull them down and make changes to get approved as UL. (This appears to be what is going on with some of the other courses that were on my "coming soon" list but then disappeared.)

First, they are not both 300-level courses - only one is.

Second, I had not seen Study.com "pull down" any courses that came in as LL and then re-released them as UL.  Instead, from what I have seen, they release the courses, and then the 300-level courses that don't get UL recommendation have been revamped and then there seems to be a seamless transition to the new course once the new recommendation has come in.

I could be wrong, but I just haven't seen Study.com release a course and then take it away.

Also, sometimes they SAY they're planning on releasing a new course soon, and then it takes longer than we thing for it to come out - but that's completely different than the release - "pull down" - release again scenario (again, that I've never seen happen).

(04-08-2018, 06:26 PM)Merlin Wrote: Sorry, I didn't intend to imply both were UL. I was obviously referring to the Psych 311 course. Not sure why you made a big deal about it though.

As for "pulling down" courses, I am talking about courses that were "coming soon" for credit but are still not credit-bearing. There are a few UL courses that were mentioned in February (like Strategic Decision Making, Management Ethics, and Advanced International Business) which still have yet to get approval for credit. Maybe they never will. Other courses that were listed at around same time (like Sociology of Work) just recently got their NCCRS recommendation so it feels like these others were about to be offered but then "pulled down" to non-credit bearing (so they can be revamped for UL credit maybe I don't know). Maybe its the nomenclature which is causing the contention. I can't really say delisted, as they are still shown on the site. It is just an observation anyway.

In any case, since there is no ACE or NCCRS listing yet, I'm just recommending caution until the courses are official. But then again, maybe I'm just a bit more risk-averse than most.

(04-09-2018, 06:36 PM)Nodaclu Wrote: Since Sociology 108 (Ethics in the Social Sciences) is also one of the last classes I'll need to graduate, and it certainly seems like SDC created that course with the TESU equivalent in mind, and since I seem to have a responsive Advisor who seems to know what he's talking about, I'll do my best to get a query in to him this week to see if Ethics in the Social Sciences is "ready to go" as a course equivalent, and I'll report back with what I find out.

(When I last spoke with him, he was clearly looking at something different than the public-facing ACE and NCCRS websites, as the eligible course dates he was referencing didn't match either site. So that makes me think they might actually be ahead of what we know from an approval standpoint.)

(04-09-2018, 07:45 PM)dfrecore Wrote: I would probably take a chance, once it comes up on the ACE website.  The people who actually do the evals at TESU are better versed on this, and will probably just do a quick eval and put it in your degree plan.