OnlineDegree.com Is Finally Open

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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?

The courses are probably better than sitting through a boring lecture, but I find it hard to believe that any institution is going to honor credits from the course provider. It all just seems too good to be true. I guess we'll see.