Provider: Sophia.org
Course: Introduction to Business
Course content: Lessons are presented in both video and text format. PDF of text for an entire unit can be downloaded and read separately. Lessons are really just short summaries, not what I would consider an actual "lesson". Text is really just a transcript of one instructor's videos. I'm a relatively fast reader, so only watched one video lesson, just to see what it was like. No external content. Nothing else to buy. Consisted of four units covering four broad business topics.
Final exam format: 25 multiple choice questions. Open book. Not proctored.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: There was perfect alignment across questions on challenges, unit milestones, and final milestone.
Time taken on course: About 4 hours, because I took the time to actually read the the lessons, answer all three challenge questions per lesson, and do the practice milestones. If I had simply blazed the course, doing the bare minimum, it would have taken less than two hours.
Familiarity with subject before course: Extremely familiar with the subject matter. I probably would have scored the same on the final milestone if I had taken it cold, outside the context of the rest of this course.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: It's an intro to business courses, so it's very basic material. For somebody with zero business experience, it's a pretty good survey of business topics. The lessons aren't particularly well written, in my personal opinion, but they're good enough to communicate the concepts. Pay particular attention to definitions. As mentioned in previous reviews of this course, many of the quiz questions are worded in a very vague and confusing manner, with the potential for more than one technically correct answer. I also noted over a dozen instances of the "correct" answer to a question being flat out, verifiably wrong. The multiple choice questions are in serious need of a quality review. I came for the quick and cheap business credits, and left with a potential future business idea, because this makes it look really easy to get stuff approved for ACE credit recommendation.
1-10 Difficulty level: 1-2 for anybody with business/management experience; 3-4 for somebody without such experience.
Course: Introduction to Business
Course content: Lessons are presented in both video and text format. PDF of text for an entire unit can be downloaded and read separately. Lessons are really just short summaries, not what I would consider an actual "lesson". Text is really just a transcript of one instructor's videos. I'm a relatively fast reader, so only watched one video lesson, just to see what it was like. No external content. Nothing else to buy. Consisted of four units covering four broad business topics.
Final exam format: 25 multiple choice questions. Open book. Not proctored.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: There was perfect alignment across questions on challenges, unit milestones, and final milestone.
Time taken on course: About 4 hours, because I took the time to actually read the the lessons, answer all three challenge questions per lesson, and do the practice milestones. If I had simply blazed the course, doing the bare minimum, it would have taken less than two hours.
Familiarity with subject before course: Extremely familiar with the subject matter. I probably would have scored the same on the final milestone if I had taken it cold, outside the context of the rest of this course.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: It's an intro to business courses, so it's very basic material. For somebody with zero business experience, it's a pretty good survey of business topics. The lessons aren't particularly well written, in my personal opinion, but they're good enough to communicate the concepts. Pay particular attention to definitions. As mentioned in previous reviews of this course, many of the quiz questions are worded in a very vague and confusing manner, with the potential for more than one technically correct answer. I also noted over a dozen instances of the "correct" answer to a question being flat out, verifiably wrong. The multiple choice questions are in serious need of a quality review. I came for the quick and cheap business credits, and left with a potential future business idea, because this makes it look really easy to get stuff approved for ACE credit recommendation.
1-10 Difficulty level: 1-2 for anybody with business/management experience; 3-4 for somebody without such experience.
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