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ECE Courses - Braylen - 08-16-2006
For the Excelsior WebCT or CD-Rom courses, does anyone know if you can do them at your own (quick) pace? I saw some reference somewhere as to only being able to submit a certain number of assignments every 2 weeks or something. However, I also saw a reference somewhere that you can do the Information Literacy course in a day (with an open book/online exam).
I'm wondering if there are any other courses that you can push through like this.
Thanks in advance for any info on this.
ECE Courses - snazzlefrag - 08-16-2006
Braylen Wrote:For the Excelsior WebCT or CD-Rom courses, does anyone know if you can do them at your own (quick) pace? I saw some reference somewhere as to only being able to submit a certain number of assignments every 2 weeks or something. However, I also saw a reference somewhere that you can do the Information Literacy course in a day (with an open book/online exam).
I'm wondering if there are any other courses that you can push through like this.
Thanks in advance for any info on this.
Braylen,
Just to be clear, the Information Literacy course is NOT in the same league as any other course or exam I have ever taken. It is only 1-credit. It involves reading a bunch of material, and then taking a pass/fail 50-question open book "quiz" for which you are allowed (if I remember correctly) 90 minutes, or it might even have been 3 hours. You can take the exam at any time once you have enrolled. It takes a few hours to read the material. But other than that, the course can be completed in as short a time as you can manage. I was able to complete the course from enrollment to final score within one evening. The hardest part of the entire course is PAYING FOR IT!
Please don't assume that ANY of the other Excelsior courses will be at the same level. Info Lit is a special case.
I just wanted to make sure you didn't make any decisions or assumptions about the normal Excelsior courses based on the feedback for the Information Literacy course.
As for your actual question, I will allow someone with specific knowledge of a WebCT course to answer.
Hope this helps,
Snazzlefrag
ECE Courses - Braylen - 08-16-2006
Thanks - I figured that might be the exception. There are a couple of courses that I feel I could do on my own well enough, but might suffer enough of a motivational drain at that point to go ahead and do them conventionally, but also don't want to take 2-3 months to complete them.
Thanks again!
ECE Courses - MagicATC - 08-16-2006
I advise if you are an Excelsior student to just save your money on the CD rom courses and test out of everything. Of course, on some of them you can just work ahead and finish a course quickly(instructor dependent) but it is so much easier to just study IC and test out. The only online course I had to do for Excelsior was the Information Literacy(finished in 3 sittings). Hope this helps.