02-14-2017, 08:26 AM
I don't talk much about my oldest son's learning issues, however, let me say that if Study.com were offering him a million dollars to pass one of their courses, I don't think he'd be able to do it. (yes, he did fail a Study.com course) The speed of info being thrown at you without "meat" reminded me of someone reading bullets to me on a 2x speed youtube video. Taking notes is impossible, the instructors have no pauses in their cadence, there are no critical thinking angles- just memorizing facts for a game of Trivial Pursuit at the end of the course.
I totally get that a huge chunk of people love that, I just don't happen to be one of them. SL does a much better job of providing instruction by mixing a combination of reading with watching and listening. In addition, you can use ebooks or paper books to read the content away from a computer. Study.com (and Sophia) don't offer that option, so it's 100% screen time. My kids share one computer in our schoolroom, but like to read in their rooms. They have the textbooks for their SL classes, so it's pretty simple to find a quiet corner.
(My son passed a Sophia course, but only barely, and in a subject he ALREADY took a full semester of- it was pretty much torture)
I totally get that a huge chunk of people love that, I just don't happen to be one of them. SL does a much better job of providing instruction by mixing a combination of reading with watching and listening. In addition, you can use ebooks or paper books to read the content away from a computer. Study.com (and Sophia) don't offer that option, so it's 100% screen time. My kids share one computer in our schoolroom, but like to read in their rooms. They have the textbooks for their SL classes, so it's pretty simple to find a quiet corner.
(My son passed a Sophia course, but only barely, and in a subject he ALREADY took a full semester of- it was pretty much torture)
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