Utah Teachers: $21 Graduate Credits

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I have just completed seven of these courses and I think that they are fantastic from a learning perspective. U.S. History #2 is just a great class. It uses the textbook from the Annenberg Learner series. The class is a lot of writing. There are two research papers that are in the three to five page range and I was probably writing 8 to 10 pages per week for the regular assignments. It is a 12 week class. I completed the General Financial Literacy Methods and Resources class. Basically, the instructor provides ten to fifteen economics/financial literacy resources. Students review the material, research how it connects to state standards and then write lesson/unit plans related to the sources. This is much less writing, but still a steady amount of work. The Fine Arts Orientation and Fine Arts Implementation classes are really nice reviews of national and state standards related to arts education. This one includes a series of assignments and discussions. Also, there are a couple of projects. I took a digital portfolio class that takes a student through several digital portfolio platforms like Portfolium. It was interesting and not a lot of work. I also completed Magnifying 6th Grade Math and Magnifying 8th Grade Math.

Many of the classes have real instructors and they are very responsive. Other classes are MOOCs and basically run by themselves. The classes are $21 or $23 per graduate credit hour. The only issue is that the credits are in IELP, which I think directly stands for Intensive English Language Program even though these classes mostly don't have anything to do with English language instruction.

This is a nice program.

Here is how the first four of my credits posted at Southern Utah University:

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