Master's Program at Harvard Extension School

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I am seeking feedback into the master's program at Harvard Extension School. I am not looking for community debate about using the Harvard name, open admissions, etc. Instead, I have two specific topic questions and would appreciate any feedback from community users who have taken courses at HES.

 
1. The learning experience with the courses at HES. What is the overall learning experience?

a) Is the learning experience similar to the Big 3, where the student reads the book, reads some articles from the Google Docs document, writes papers, maybe a few quizzes, and weekly discussions? It's mostly a self-taught experience. There are no lectures, no videos discussing each week's topic.
 
b) There are videos (live or recorded) by the professor each week discussing the topic, providing actual lectures, textbook reading, quizzes, writing papers, and weekly discussions. There is genuinely an environment of a professor teaching a class.
 
c) Somewhere between options and A and B.
 
 
 
2. What is the difficulty of the master program courses at HES? I realize the question is broad, and everyone will have their unique definition of difficulty. I am merely trying to gain a consensus on how hard the HES courses compare to other schools and alternative credit providers.