University of the People Experiences

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My experience. Peer grading is terrible, marking criteria is so poor that a barely English written assignment can get full marks. Never really interact with the instructor other than to send in the learning journal, apparently some students have great interaction, could just be as I do what I need to do to get marks and nothing more.

Student services (not your area) is appalling. You either get no reply, a generic response, or get told what you can find yourself on their website.

Website: Broken. Pages don't load or can't be found. They blame it on student numbers but I've had no issues anywhere else.

Registration: They changed to 'recommendations' a while ago and have had issue since.  The courses you need aren't there or you get offered courses you've transferred in.

Do instructors actually teach? I've never had an instructor give a lesson, it's all been from open free online books or youtube videos. Of course you need to know what you are looking at for forum discussions, journals, issues with peer grading, and answering student questions.