What courses would you like to see on Sophia/SDC/etc?

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On the other hand, Sophia's A&P are pretty challenging

For a layperson, sure. For serious credit towards a pre-req, no it's not adequate. (I taught A&P at the college level and facilitated a human cadaver anatomy lab)

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(1) I am a layperson. However, I've also taken A&P that qualifies as a prereq, so I think I have some actual perspective on this unlike anyone who hasn't taken the course. Which, by the way ...
(2) Have you taken Sophia's A&P? If not, your opinion isn't worth much, even if you've got a PhD in the subject.

Like Jonathan said: a healthy dosage of both enthusiasm and skepticism. I have done the A&P via Sophia and I thought I took away a great deal of information from it and I did find it challenging. The same applied for when I took Pre-calc and Calculus. Isn't the goal of alternative sources to higher education to provide a bridge between affordability, knowledge, and college-level rigor? Sure, there's some differences between in-person and online modalities, but you can still take away some good knowledge. It may not be 100% like in-person, but then again, do we ever takeaway 100%? I do have respect for a lot of what Duneranger says across many other threads and I find it insightful. I would say that, yes, there are some colleges that wouldn't accept healthcare courses via Sophia, but then again, some colleges straight up don't take any courses from Sophia (I have bumped into this time-to-time). However, a main aspect of what we discuss about in this forum (which I know everyone here knows) is about leveraging alternative credits. We already have healthcare management via Sophia and the A&P courses and labs, so that already indicates that there is a level of interest and business to be have in offering healthcare-related courses. Whether or not some colleges accept them is there prerogative, but I'm sure other colleges out there will take them and students pursuing degree paths in that nature will use those credits and find a college elsewhere that will take them. I didn't have to do anything in person via WGU for their healthcare courses and I was able to do it via online, so the market exists for such courses to be provided by alt credit sources. If its about the rigor of the courses, that is for agencies like Sophia to develop and consider, and for ACE to give the thumbs up on it, not the customer/student.