07-03-2022, 02:52 PM
My husband has completed 18 classes (52 credits) through Sophia since the beginning of June. Most of them were subjects he had extensive experience in or that he could do relatively quickly due to prior knowledge. US History was the most problematic, since he had not ever really studied US History in this country or with that depth before, but he liked learning it. He completed the OPI for his native language and earned 12 credits. We aren't sure there's really room for more language credits in a different language since he speaks others, but 12 is significant enough and fills that bucket if needed.
At a work meeting in June it was suggested that his team could use knowledge in Data Analytics for some projects coming up, so he was going to do some classes there and then encourage his staff to start some of that coursework as well. He picked the Google one through Coursera because of the curriculum but also in part because of the reviews here of it, so there should be some ACE credit potentially coming from there as well. With that certificate and his 8 hours in programming languages plus all the Sophia IT courses he took I suppose he could easily do an AOE at Pierpont of Computer Science or IT, whichever they come through as.
He is on vacation this and last week and is rocking and rolling on the Google Data Analytics coursework in his free time. Much of it is easy and review of prior knowledge he's picked up elsewhere but he says some of it has been interesting, clarifying or completely new and he can see how it will be useful to his team. He has moved through the first couple of "weeks" of coursework in the first 4-6 hours of focused academic time, learning what he needs to but skipping stuff that is duplicating prior knowledge. Some people seem to finish in a week or less, I am not sure that he's going to meet that timeline but it won't be several months for sure. He has too many things going on all at once to get it done in a week.
So he has 72 hours so far: gened & electives almost all covered from Sophia (52 hours so far), plus 8 hours of classwork from local community college in programming languages plus 12 hours foreign language through ACTFL. The proctoring process in the ACTFL OPI had some technical difficulties that a few phone calls was able to sort out, but the OPI itself was very straightforward.
For TAMUC he needs US Government (possible CLEP) and Texas Government, which will have to be fulfilled at the community college here or at TAMUC.
He is signed up for ONU's English Comp and will work on that on the second part of his vacation time soon.
He submitted the application for Pierpont already, knowing that it takes some time to get going.
At a work meeting in June it was suggested that his team could use knowledge in Data Analytics for some projects coming up, so he was going to do some classes there and then encourage his staff to start some of that coursework as well. He picked the Google one through Coursera because of the curriculum but also in part because of the reviews here of it, so there should be some ACE credit potentially coming from there as well. With that certificate and his 8 hours in programming languages plus all the Sophia IT courses he took I suppose he could easily do an AOE at Pierpont of Computer Science or IT, whichever they come through as.
He is on vacation this and last week and is rocking and rolling on the Google Data Analytics coursework in his free time. Much of it is easy and review of prior knowledge he's picked up elsewhere but he says some of it has been interesting, clarifying or completely new and he can see how it will be useful to his team. He has moved through the first couple of "weeks" of coursework in the first 4-6 hours of focused academic time, learning what he needs to but skipping stuff that is duplicating prior knowledge. Some people seem to finish in a week or less, I am not sure that he's going to meet that timeline but it won't be several months for sure. He has too many things going on all at once to get it done in a week.
So he has 72 hours so far: gened & electives almost all covered from Sophia (52 hours so far), plus 8 hours of classwork from local community college in programming languages plus 12 hours foreign language through ACTFL. The proctoring process in the ACTFL OPI had some technical difficulties that a few phone calls was able to sort out, but the OPI itself was very straightforward.
For TAMUC he needs US Government (possible CLEP) and Texas Government, which will have to be fulfilled at the community college here or at TAMUC.
He is signed up for ONU's English Comp and will work on that on the second part of his vacation time soon.
He submitted the application for Pierpont already, knowing that it takes some time to get going.
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