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

[Duneranger]

SNHU accespt sophia A&P as a transfer for A&P

https://www.snhu.edu/admission/transferr...xperiences

https://www.snhu.edu/admission/transferr...xperiences

WGU accepts it for the BS in health science
https://partners.wgu.edu/transfer-pathwa...gramId=167

A BS in health science does what exactly? Any grad school (PA or MD) is going to check where your core pre reqs came from. This is moot.

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Almost two weeks ago on this thread, I talked about how I didn't think it was likely that Sophia would offer courses like radiology or histology. And I still don't think it would. But I dropped out of the conversation for a while when I realized that my comments weren't helpful. The point of the thread is to brainstorm what they would like to see on Sophia, and coming here just to pee on the parade is rude.

But I'm back to making a long comment because someone else has decided to pee on the parade, and the arguments have gone way beyond "is it practical?" to Duneranger continually moving the goalposts in a way that comes across as attacking the brainstormers and the rest of us for enjoying learning new things.

As someone who was previously butting into this conversation with unwanted and unhelpful advice, I would like to advise Duneranger that you are doing the same thing. It was annoying when I did it, so ...

I would, however, like to state my agreement that Ninja Nerd is amazing, and in fact I reviewed his stuff a lot while doing A and P on Sophia. And one reason to watch ninja nerd while doing A and P on Sophia is because the course is challenging, both compared to Sophia's human biology course and in general. It's not pedagogically amazing or even that good, and it won't get you into med school. But it is challenging. The tests are way more time limited per question than most of the tests I have taken on Sophia, and that means that a person has to actually either study the course materials (which, if I remember correctly, is basically the Openstax A and P textbook, which is used in plenty of in-person A and P classes) or already know the subject from previous studies if they want to actually do well. There isn't time to look up every answer. No one unfamiliar with the topic is going to finish the course in less than a day or even less than a couple weeks of serious study unless they have found a good way to cheat, and if that's what they're doing, like Blue Booger said, cheaters will always find a way.

But I won't be admitted to med school based on my Sophia course, so clearly it's a complete waste of time. Heaven forbid non-clinicians try to learn anything about human biology.

Anyway, if anyone ever decides to circulate a petition to Sophia to add a course on radiology, I will sign it just to make up for being a jerk in the early October portion of this thread Also, taking it could be fun.

I am not moving goalposts. I do this for a literal living, and I am fairly certain no one else in this thread does. I clinically use anatomy every day to place chest tubes, breathing devices, peripheral nerve blocks, epidurals, spinals etc etc.  This is sort of the end goal and overall point of knowing anatomy and physiology at an academic level. If everyone here wants to circle jerk Sophia as being as juST aS goOd (making a ACE credit class pushes that narrative while you like it or not) to propagate the extreme biases here on obtaining credits by any means necessary, then so be it.

If a layperson wants to take an intro course on something for shits and giggles that's fine. If Sophia wants to make a non credit course, that's fine.

You may say, "Oh I am just using for my personal knowledge", then again fine. But you know FULL well there are going to be a tons of people on here who fully believe these classes are just as good as the "real" version. That's where the delusion starts.

No one needs a Sophia course to study anatomy; physiology is something different. Go pick up an old Guyton and Hall if you are serious and call it a day. You don't need a Sophia class for this.

Sophia classes are already a borderline joke as is and yes I DID use them for my "fun" degree at UMPI, I will admit that.