OnlineDegree.com Is Finally Open

[badooble]

It looks like the core part of each course comes from either Great Courses or UCI Open Courseware.  Each lesson includes the main lecture (from one of these sources) and then supplementary videos and materials. The quiz description says that the quizzes are based on the main lecture.

It seems like it would be nice, then, to have an option to simply get credit for a Great Courses or UCI Open Courseware course by creating a proctored final.  Why recreate the course, when these courses have already been created?  Why not just create the means for evaluating mastery?

That already exists.  CLEP, DANTES, TECEP, etc.  OnlineDegree is trying to do something different, and it's exciting to see something other than another "go study, then come back and take a test".   

OnlineDegree.com is sort of the opposite of Modern States, which provides free coursework and study guides for pre-existing tests.  In my opinion, all experimenters are welcome and encouraged in this space, especially free and very inexpensive ones.

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I just took the exams for the public health class and the economics class.  I scored a 78% on the econ. exam with an overall class grade of B-.  I scored a 57% on the public health exam for an overall grade of C.  I have mostly been playing the videos in the background and then marking complete as soon as the icon allows it.  This means that I have been watching about half to two-thirds of all videos.  I still received a full participation grade of 10%.  In both classes I ended up with about a B- average on the quizzes.  They drop the lowest two quizzes and that really makes a big difference in the final overall grade.  The final for the public health class was 40 questions.  The final for the econ. class was 46.  Both were really quick, especially considering there is no wait time for RPNow as opposed to ProctorU.  The econ. class required just a bit of math in my head, but I did not need or use a calculator or pencil/paper.  It was on the easier side of things in terms of econ. tests.  I am just about finished with the English education class and I'll post feedback on that in a couple of days.  That one is actually a pretty good class for understanding how language works.  I have learned a lot from it.

Congrats on completing these and thanks for the constructive feedback!