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Current student in the CS program. Feel free to ask questions.
is this a marketing move to post it here?
Also, I watched the "Who is behind it" video and it did not answer the question, who is actually behind this? Is it a non-profit? Is it owned by by someone? Who founded it when?
This seems too good to be true and I’m trying to figure out the catch.
However, if you know that going into it, you know the primary shortcoming. (Fortunately, I have a regionally accredited degree already, so I didn't care about that.)
I did enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, all over the world. However, I also saw a grossly wide range of educational professionalism in the students. In the introductory mandatory writing course, for example,there were a number of classmates whom could not grasp the idea of plagiarism being unethical. With a plagiarism assignment graded by those peers, it was difficult to not feel like higher educational learning was moving along for oneself at a progressively intellectually challenging pace.
Current student in the CS program. Feel free to ask questions.
As both the OP and you are new accounts, I will ask the first question I can think of: is this a marketing move to post it here? Also, I watched the "Who is behind it" video and it did not answer the question, who is actually behind this? Is it a non-profit? Is it owned by by someone? Who founded it when?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kH-uYwt0qs
It's non-profit. Not sure who "owns" it. It started in 2009.
Edit: Addendum. I'm not sure they need marketing. When I started last year (Sep 2019), they had ~20k students. They've added another 10k over the course of the academic year. I believe they were at 5k students in 2016.
I'm actually concerned about the sustainability with this growth, but we'll see how this ride goes.
They sure ask for a lot of information for signing up, which make me think that it is not free.
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As both the OP and you are new accounts, I will ask the first question I can think of: is this a marketing move to post it here? Also, I watched the "Who is behind it" video and it did not answer the question, who is actually behind this? Is it a non-profit? Is it owned by by someone? Who founded it when?
Shai Reshef is the person who started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kH-uYwt0qs It's non-profit. Not sure who "owns" it. It started in 2009. Edit: Addendum. I'm not sure they need marketing. When I started last year (Sep 2019), they had ~20k students. They've added another 10k over the course of the academic year. I believe they were at 5k students in 2016. I'm actually concerned about the sustainability with this…
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Shai Reshef is the person who started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kH-uYwt0qs It's non-profit. Not sure who "owns" it. It started in 2009. Edit: Addendum. I'm not sure they need marketing. When I started last year (Sep 2019), they had ~20k students. They've added another 10k over the course of the academic year. I believe they were at 5k students in 2016. I'm actually concerned about the sustainability with this…
Is posting here a marketing move? you seem to have skipped that question.
Aside from being a student, I have no other affiliation with the school.
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Is posting here a marketing move? you seem to have skipped that question.
See my addendum. Didn't mean to miss it. Just answering several people at once. Aside from being a student, I have no other affiliation with the school.
Hi. I attended this school and then got accepted to another more standard institution, which I applied at the same time to. The new institution, learning I had been attending U of the P, promptly told me that U of the P credits would not transfer. Universal transferability in question, I opted out. I did enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, all over the world. However, I also saw a grossly wide range of educa…
Yes, many schools will not accept coursework from nationally accredited universities. This includes coursework from UoPeople. You will not be able to apply for many graduate schools as well. A degree from UoPeople definitely comes with limits, and I wish the school was a little more forward about that. (There are lots of discussions about this on the internal social network.)
Hi. I attended this school and then got accepted to another more standard institution, which I applied at the same time to. The new institution, learning I had been attending U of the P, promptly told me that U of the P credits would not transfer. Universal transferability in question, I opted out. I did enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, all over the world. However, I also saw a grossly wide range of educa…
I remember experiencing this at a private religious university. At the time, my hyper-religious mind was blown to see students outright cheating in the Testing Center.
Since then I've been exposed to additional perspectives on plagiarism. It is an extremely deep and nuanced topic. A few years out of school, I ended up mentoring and then teaching college students who seem to match the sort of person you describe. This was a huge shock at first.
The more I learned about these students, the more I learned about the sheer variety of perceptions involved: One person's fairness concept is, to another person or group, a latent power dynamic which ought to be questioned.
Or, this person's concern for the big-picture ethical questions is this other person's small-picture roadblock in an economic problem which seems more urgent with each passing moment. You want a big picture? Can you justify it in seconds, with something that's not simply a subjective perception or largely-covert moral construct of your own?
Yet another person's assumption of perpetually commonly-understood contract is another's baroque exercise in cleverness and flexibility. It's the sneaky laser dance from _Ocean's Twelve_, and _that_ kind of challenge is, psychologically speaking, extremely energizing for them. Don't think they didn't notice how things work in the "real" world! (When these two see each other face to face--so to speak--there are harsh outcomes)
Anyway--sorry to hear about your experience & thank you for sharing so that others can be more educated about their choice of institution.