Excelsior: Information Literacy and Research and Writing

[Wallerstein]

[quote=sanantone]I heard it a few times over the years that an advisor told someone that they couldn't use the Penn Foster course for information literacy. I don't know if this is just one advisor giving bad info. Their degree charts say "Research and Writing in the Degree." So, I'm guessing the course has to be specific to your major. Psychology has a research methods and research and writing in the degree requirement, so it sounds like research methods won't fulfill the research and writing requirement.

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I enrolled last fall semester and my academic advisor told me specifically they would not accept Penn Foster Info Lit. Ended up having to sign up for Excelsior's course and passed it in 30 minutes. You don't even have to read through the sections of material provided. The test was multiple choice and laughably easy (What is plagiarism? Which of these is used to enter information into a computer...printer, keyboard, laser pointer?).

400 dollars gone...