CLEA Masstercursos master course

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I've signed up for the 64 ECTS Child Psychology "Masters" course, which cost €239.20 on the Black Friday sale. The learning material is mostly PDFs with a few videos. The coursework is a few essay assignments, case studies, and a final exam. So far the material actually seems quite good. They aren't hand-holding as much as ENEB does - they're assuming you already know stuff like what "zygotes" are, whereas ENEB explains even extremely basic concepts. As a result I need to go revisit jr. high school biology...

I don't know Spanish. I turned all the PDFs into .epub files, and read them on my e-reading device, using the Spanish to English pop-up dictionary on it. I found that a lot of the technical vocabulary as well as a bunch of other random words (gestational, zygote, condition, etc) is the same as English, or close enough for a correct guess in context, to the point where I can understand about 60% of the text without using a dictionary at all. I'm very quickly learning the false cognates and other main words (like "also, within") used this way. After reading through a chapter once in Spanish with the dictionary, I then use DeepL to translate it to English and read it a second time. Hopefully this way I'll learn Spanish as I go along, which I can use to get even more cheap titulo propio later.

I plan stretch out the time to completion so it looks like it took a full 9 months (school year) to get, and then I will see if the credits transfer in to University of the People, as my degree there will take 2 years or more. Basically, if I get to like 99% complete, I'll just pause. I will also see if the ECTS transfer in to Sweden, although I don't plan on getting another degree from Sweden due to time zone differences making the live lectures and group work too difficult.

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ENEB still offers the traditional/original program. For people who want to use their ENEB degrees to pursue further/additional education and/or employment, they recommend choosing the traditional option so they can have a transcript with grades.

...when all they had to do was make a multiple choice exam of 50 or more questions per course and they could've accomplished the exact same goal of reducing their grading staff and making more money. Just by not doing it that way, I question their intelligence now...

ENEB is a separate 50 question exam per course, except for the MBA which gets lumped in with one of your other subjects at random. I enrolled in the MBA and 2 Master's, and I had 2 separate final exams. Most people on these forums are only enrolled in the MBA + one Master's at a maximum, so they end up with only 1 final exam, which looks misleading. I assume if you sign up for their special set combo "Global Master's", which combines 3 certain courses into 1 degree worth 90 ETS instead of 72, you would have 1 final exam. So if you signed up for 10 Master's at ENEB, you would have 7-10 final exams.

Also the reason for getting an unfavorable result by FCEs is probably unrelated to the exam. I personally know someone in the USA who got a Business Administration degree at an accredited, local college in the US, and they tested out of 10 classes - if test outs made a degree invalid, this method would not be possible. Also, at least some major FCEs do not research anything about the courses or syllabus, nor how classes are conducted, meaning they wouldn't even know ENEB has an exam method (I have gotten normal degrees, not titulo propio, from normal accredited European universities, evaluated in a ludicrous way by WES USA, and my school claims they were never contacted by WES for clarification on anything).