01-18-2023, 09:53 PM
Provider: Sophia
Course: Principles of Management
Course content: Text. Easy. Many of the questions were common sense. I did not thoroughly read the content. I was able to get by with skimming and ctrl+f
Final exam format: Touchstone PowerPoint project
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Medium. The basics of the content are there so that you have the framework for your project, but there is no guidance for how to conduct the research needed.
Time taken on course: Roughly 12 hours
Familiarity with subject before course: I’ve worked in corporate jobs for 20 years. Familiar, but not necessarily with all of the concepts.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: The touchstone made the course harder than the content, challenges and milestones. It wasn’t terrible and I was still able to complete it in several hours, but it did require quite a bit of research and there was additional time taken to build an APA style references page. The course itself I probably got through in about 5 hours while the touchstone tacked on an additional 6-7 hours. I was able to complete all the work in a day and a half over a weekend. I stressed over this project because I had been purposefully avoiding Sophia classes with assignments, but I needed an upper level class for my business core (TESU), so I sucked it up. In the end I stressed over it for nothing because I got 100.
1-10 Difficulty level: 4. I would give it a 2 if there was no touchstone
Course: Principles of Management
Course content: Text. Easy. Many of the questions were common sense. I did not thoroughly read the content. I was able to get by with skimming and ctrl+f
Final exam format: Touchstone PowerPoint project
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Medium. The basics of the content are there so that you have the framework for your project, but there is no guidance for how to conduct the research needed.
Time taken on course: Roughly 12 hours
Familiarity with subject before course: I’ve worked in corporate jobs for 20 years. Familiar, but not necessarily with all of the concepts.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: The touchstone made the course harder than the content, challenges and milestones. It wasn’t terrible and I was still able to complete it in several hours, but it did require quite a bit of research and there was additional time taken to build an APA style references page. The course itself I probably got through in about 5 hours while the touchstone tacked on an additional 6-7 hours. I was able to complete all the work in a day and a half over a weekend. I stressed over this project because I had been purposefully avoiding Sophia classes with assignments, but I needed an upper level class for my business core (TESU), so I sucked it up. In the end I stressed over it for nothing because I got 100.
1-10 Difficulty level: 4. I would give it a 2 if there was no touchstone
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