TEL Learning - your new best friend (cheap RA credits)

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So I think I've figured out how the "credit laundering" of TEL works (and it's probably similar at Westcott/Brandman, Outlier/UofPittsburg, etc.): these universities all actually use these exact courses at their schools. So if you take the course at Greenville University for example, you're actually taking the same exact TEL course. Greenville bought/leased it from TEL as is. So there's some sort of agreement between them that TEL can sell the course to students, and Greenville will give credit.

There are schools that are creating online platforms, and it's much easier to go out and buy/lease pre-made, well-done content for their schools than to recreate them from scratch - no reinventing the wheel. So I predict that this will be more prevalent in the years to come. Word will get out that XYZ company has excellent math courses, and boom, a bunch of schools will start to use those courses for their online offerings, thereby making their online presence more robust then they would have been if they'd had to create the math courses themselves.

So, all of this to say that if you take a TEL course for example, you will get a transcript from a partner school, showing the course as having taken it from them directly because once you purchase the course, you switch over to the school itself from that point forward. My daughter just bought a course from TEL, once we purchased it, we then registered her at the school, and all communication going forward is from the school, not TEL. She's subject to the school's policies of grading, drop deadline, etc. (if she drops prior to the W date, it's just gone and she gets a refund; if she drops within the next deadline, she'll have a W on her transcript; if she drops after that, she'll get an F). She is taking this course AT THE COLLEGE SHE CHOSE AS THE PARTNER SCHOOL.