I'm in my first term at WGU and loving it. All the assignments and most of the learning is geared towards real life and are more about the application of the knowledge to real work life than about the knowledge itself, so it is similar to trade school in that sense. Unlike what someone else wrote in here, every time I get an assignment sent back for revision it is extremely clear what I need to revise, and in every case so far it has actually just been me spacing out or misreading the instructions (stuff like it says "Write 2 examples" and I only wrote 1). In my case, averaged out I am passing about 1 CPU per day. A Master's degree is around 50 CPU so you can finish in 2 months, provided you aren't getting an internship. Customer service has been excellent and my mentor really, really knows what they are talking about with everything to do with the job field and the WGU degree itself - my mentor checks to see what I made a mistake on in my assignments, and a couple days after a revision has been requested if I haven't sent in the revision yet my course instructor sends me additional info, unbidden, about what to do for the revision.
I have not needed to use any outside resources to learn, needed to get any tutoring or talk to any instructors. The WGU course material is clear and in the few cases where I feel it is lacking details I just briefly check out Wikipedia and then I'm good.
My degree does not contain anything from LinkedIn or Udemy, a lot of the course videos are made by WGU instructors themselves (sometimes every video in the course). They do use quite a few resources from Edutopia, some legal websites (we are supposed to read the actual laws, not just read ABOUT the laws) and occasionally show short Ted Talks, which of course anyone can access (the Ted Talks are always just illustrative of the principles we are learning, and never actually "experts", vital information or explanations of theories etc). Aside from that they show unscripted classroom recordings from schools across the US which are hosted on some kind of private website only Education students have access to (aka not stuff on YouTube), and there is a 3D virtual classroom service you use for a few assignments where hired actors play the part of students. I found out a few Education degrees use that kind of virtual classroom service, including some schools in California.
That said, I have no idea how UMPI is.
I have not needed to use any outside resources to learn, needed to get any tutoring or talk to any instructors. The WGU course material is clear and in the few cases where I feel it is lacking details I just briefly check out Wikipedia and then I'm good.
My degree does not contain anything from LinkedIn or Udemy, a lot of the course videos are made by WGU instructors themselves (sometimes every video in the course). They do use quite a few resources from Edutopia, some legal websites (we are supposed to read the actual laws, not just read ABOUT the laws) and occasionally show short Ted Talks, which of course anyone can access (the Ted Talks are always just illustrative of the principles we are learning, and never actually "experts", vital information or explanations of theories etc). Aside from that they show unscripted classroom recordings from schools across the US which are hosted on some kind of private website only Education students have access to (aka not stuff on YouTube), and there is a 3D virtual classroom service you use for a few assignments where hired actors play the part of students. I found out a few Education degrees use that kind of virtual classroom service, including some schools in California.
That said, I have no idea how UMPI is.
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