Open Book Exam Courses

[TMW2010]

I'd like to weigh in on this from the Excelsior standpoint.

I've complete 3 classes and am currently working on 4 more at this time (yeah, I should have rethought that.. but.. shrug.) 2 classes were 8 week classes, 2 classes were of the CDROM version, and the 3 classes are the full 15 week classes. And as Peace said, there's no proctor involved. BUT...

• The 5 non-CDROM classes all have the weekly dicussions, which are worth 20% of the grade. These discussions require inital posts of 125-250 words, and multiple responses of at least 100 words, all requiring thought, explanation, and citation of sources.
  
• One of the classes I'm taking has modular multiple choice quizzes, that are all timed & open book. And worded so that you wanted to make sure you read the material so you subtle differences between the answers. The Midterm and final for this class will also have 50 multiple choice questions (timed), in additional to 3-5 'short answer' questions that will require 250-500 words each with citation.
  
• The Midterm and final of my other classes consist of anywhere between 6-10 short answer and 2-5 essay questions. My Criminology class final was estimated by the professor to be around 11-13 pages in length when completed . When I turned mine in, it was 27 pages.
  
• One of the classes I'm currently taking has two 'quizzes', one was in Module 2 and the other will be in module 6. The one in module two consisted of 9 short answer questions which required citations (which ended up being an average of 300 words per question for me). I assume the module 6 will be the same.
  
• Each of my classes (both CD-ROM & online) require at least 2 projects consisting of papers that are between 2-10 pages of work each.
  
• All projects, essays, and short answers are checked via TurnItIn to make sure there's no plagiarism and copy/paste of answers from some of these web sites.
  

I think EC has their bases covered...