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The introduction wasn't the best, but these do look like genuinely useful courses for some students. Assuming, of course, that TESU and/or EC accept them. It'd be great if we could get someone willing to guinea pig one or two courses to see if TESU/EC will accept them.

The exams are also open book.

If these are accepted, this could be an amazing resource for students who can't or don't want to use video proctoring for one reason or another.

I'm affiliated with LS (yes, and NPC... and Coopersmith... the 5 kids just don't keep me busy enough ), so let me clarify a few things discussed on the thread.

While NPC has been with NCCRS since 2013, LS really just got most of its credit recommendations recently. NCCRS backdates to the date of the application, which is why they say 6/21, but the lion's share of the recommendations were posted in December. It was a process; let's just leave it at that. 

EC, TESU and COSC are all on our radar of course. We met with EC yesterday. There's no doubt of their accepting LS credit (they accept NCCRS as a policy), but we're working on nailing down an equivalency chart, which I think will be very useful (it will take a few weeks to iron out, I'm sure).

We are absolutely also reaching out to the other 2: TESU to get some sort of equivalency chart and COSC to get an articulation. Obviously, we'll announce anything we get in that regard.

Regarding NPC, I wouldn't quite say the LS courses are the same as the NPC courses. NPC requires assignments, multiple exams and are months-long synchronous courses. NPC is not for EC-style degree-finishers. It's for people who want deliberate more traditional instructor-led classes. The content is also not exactly the same, though they're on the same basic level, of course. Obviously, cannibalization of potential NPC students is something we've given a lot of thought to, but we're not convinced there's a huge overlap of people who are looking for a traditional college training regimen to become a paralegal or prepare for law school and those looking for complete a TESU or EC type degree. It's important to note in this vein that NPC credits are not the same as LS credits and I agree that NPC being DEAC has no impact on LS.

Anyway, I'll try to check back from time to time to see if there are questions and of course I'll announce any big course equivalency or articulation breakthroughs that we hope to get.