10-10-2022, 12:11 PM
Provider: Study.com
Course: Business 303: Management Information Systems
Course content: Videos, quizzes, 3 written assignments (3-5 pg each), final exam
Final exam format: 70 multiple choice questions
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Final exam was in line with my average score from practices, very closely aligned to course content/quizzes/practice tests
Time taken on course: I did listen to all videos (did them on my commute), so that is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 hours. Having done most of the course casually, I decided to do 3 practice exams, and when I 'only' got an 86 on the third, I decided to take two more at about 15 min a piece (around 1:15 total) plus about 2-3 hours to write one paper. Total was under 20 hours.
Familiarity with subject before course: I've never taken a business class before, and feel like my answer should be low, but based on the course content, I guess I have to answer high - I barely learned anything new. At most I have some new dreadful corporate jargon to use for concepts everyone already intuitively understands.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: A few notes - I only did one paper, I literally did not care, so I wrote around 900 words, looked up a handful of very easy to find news articles online (I did Coke vs Pepsi, a perennial favorite comparison topic in absolutely any category and most importantly, easy to find). I did not go in depth at all, just used the readily available info about the one campaign each article wrote about. No scholarly articles. Got 25/30. Combined with 100 on quizzes and a 93 on the final that is good enough. This was really a pointless course from a learning perspective, but it is an easy 3 hours and I treated it as such.
1-10 Difficulty level: 1. I think about 80% of this is common sense and just existing in 2022. We all get targeted with enough ads that we already know what companies are doing, and we all engage in e-commerce unless you live under a rock. There were a handful of terms I was less familiar with, so it was easy to focus in on some of those. This is objectively the easiest course I've taken so far toward this degree, even though it took a bit longer than the database one, that was just because I didn't actually take the lessons.
Course: Business 303: Management Information Systems
Course content: Videos, quizzes, 3 written assignments (3-5 pg each), final exam
Final exam format: 70 multiple choice questions
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Final exam was in line with my average score from practices, very closely aligned to course content/quizzes/practice tests
Time taken on course: I did listen to all videos (did them on my commute), so that is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 hours. Having done most of the course casually, I decided to do 3 practice exams, and when I 'only' got an 86 on the third, I decided to take two more at about 15 min a piece (around 1:15 total) plus about 2-3 hours to write one paper. Total was under 20 hours.
Familiarity with subject before course: I've never taken a business class before, and feel like my answer should be low, but based on the course content, I guess I have to answer high - I barely learned anything new. At most I have some new dreadful corporate jargon to use for concepts everyone already intuitively understands.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: A few notes - I only did one paper, I literally did not care, so I wrote around 900 words, looked up a handful of very easy to find news articles online (I did Coke vs Pepsi, a perennial favorite comparison topic in absolutely any category and most importantly, easy to find). I did not go in depth at all, just used the readily available info about the one campaign each article wrote about. No scholarly articles. Got 25/30. Combined with 100 on quizzes and a 93 on the final that is good enough. This was really a pointless course from a learning perspective, but it is an easy 3 hours and I treated it as such.
1-10 Difficulty level: 1. I think about 80% of this is common sense and just existing in 2022. We all get targeted with enough ads that we already know what companies are doing, and we all engage in e-commerce unless you live under a rock. There were a handful of terms I was less familiar with, so it was easy to focus in on some of those. This is objectively the easiest course I've taken so far toward this degree, even though it took a bit longer than the database one, that was just because I didn't actually take the lessons.
Working Toward: ME-EM, CU Boulder (Coursera)
Completed: TESU - BA Computer Science, 2023; TESU - AAS Applied Electronic Studies, 2012; K-State -BS Political Science, 2016
Completed: TESU - BA Computer Science, 2023; TESU - AAS Applied Electronic Studies, 2012; K-State -BS Political Science, 2016
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