06-09-2017, 04:07 PM
Provider: Study.com
Course: Geography 101: Human & Cultural Geography
Course content: 140 Lessons over 15 chapters, with 140 quizzes. Some lessons/quizzes can be fulfilled by other study.com courses, but there is no placement test option.
Final exam format: 100 multiple choice questions.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: I'd say about 85% was drilled with very few identical questions
Time taken on course: A little over 10 hours over the course of the week.
Familiarity with subject before course: This course pulls from sociology, biology and economics, all courses I have previously completed. Some of the material (industry/energy) is close to my line of work.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: This is a very broad-spectrum course. It's pretty low on what most people would consider geography, but focuses more on social geography and goes into a lot of other topics like energy, agriculture, human evolution and economics. Various insecticides were covered; map projections were not. Just a heads up on what to expect. Oh yeah - much to my surprise (not) Study.com managed to slip a couple of philosophers/theorists/inventors in as well.
1-10 Difficulty level: Due to recent discussions elsewhere on the site, I will no longer offer a 1-10 difficulty level. I will however attempt to put it in relative terms the best I can, and offer any opinions on what I will call "ancillary difficulties" in terms of technical difficulty, ease of navigation, quality of materials provided etc. With that said - As I mentioned above, this course has a wide variety of content that you may have encountered in other courses, so there's a high probability some of the material will be old hat. Technically speaking, there are a LOT of quizzes so it's a bit of a time consumer, but prior exposure allowed me to roll through faster than I'd imagine someone without similar coursework would be able to.
Course: Geography 101: Human & Cultural Geography
Course content: 140 Lessons over 15 chapters, with 140 quizzes. Some lessons/quizzes can be fulfilled by other study.com courses, but there is no placement test option.
Final exam format: 100 multiple choice questions.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: I'd say about 85% was drilled with very few identical questions
Time taken on course: A little over 10 hours over the course of the week.
Familiarity with subject before course: This course pulls from sociology, biology and economics, all courses I have previously completed. Some of the material (industry/energy) is close to my line of work.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: This is a very broad-spectrum course. It's pretty low on what most people would consider geography, but focuses more on social geography and goes into a lot of other topics like energy, agriculture, human evolution and economics. Various insecticides were covered; map projections were not. Just a heads up on what to expect. Oh yeah - much to my surprise (not) Study.com managed to slip a couple of philosophers/theorists/inventors in as well.
1-10 Difficulty level: Due to recent discussions elsewhere on the site, I will no longer offer a 1-10 difficulty level. I will however attempt to put it in relative terms the best I can, and offer any opinions on what I will call "ancillary difficulties" in terms of technical difficulty, ease of navigation, quality of materials provided etc. With that said - As I mentioned above, this course has a wide variety of content that you may have encountered in other courses, so there's a high probability some of the material will be old hat. Technically speaking, there are a LOT of quizzes so it's a bit of a time consumer, but prior exposure allowed me to roll through faster than I'd imagine someone without similar coursework would be able to.
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