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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Algorithms is a separate course. https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/book/view.php?id=45606&chapterid... Note that this syllabus is somewhat out of date. The second textbook link is a bad link. I can't find any m
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
The school is accredited by the DEAC which is recognized by the US DoE. It's national accreditation which is less prestigious and not always "accepted" by regional accredited schools. https://ope.ed.gov/dapip&
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Sadly, yes. College Algebra, Stats, Calculus (one-term), and Discrete Mathematics are all the math requirements. I plan to do my math elsewhere.
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Yep. And this is absolutely a concern those considering the school should take seriously! That said, the school started the process for WASC accreditation. They announced it about a month or two ago. Thus, those who start now and take 4 yea
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
1. Yes, absolutely. I love learning. I dislike that courses are only 8 weeks long because I would like to dig deeper into the material than that timeframe allows. However, I definitely feel the time is well spent. 2. I am less concerned abo
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Some people do it. https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU/comments/g7h1qz/bscs_87_credits...
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Speaking on your comment about plagiarism, my second term there was a student who submitted their Java homework in a Word document. It contained two screenshots. The first was of the NetBeans IDE. The second was of their browser opened to a
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
I've attended several schools online at both the undergrad and graduate level including a for-profit school. I don't find much different between them because they've all followed an asynchronous approach. However, UoPeople is
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
> 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. Yes, many schools will not accept coursework from nationall
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
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.
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Tuition-free, not completely free. There is a require one-time app fee and exam fee for each course.
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
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 st
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
It's true. The current "catch" is that the school is nationally accredited. This means you can encounter some issue getting your degree recognized (e.g., some grad schools in the US will not consider nationally accredited deg
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
I'll just add that many UoPeople students in the US transfer to WGU to complete their bachelor's degree. (WGU is regionally accredited, so it carried more weight. And it accepts UoPeople credits.)
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Regional accreditation is the "gold standard" in the US. National accreditation is consider below that. However, the school is accredited by the DEAC which is recognized by the US Department of Education. (Some have tried to claim
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
As a US based student, it wasn't too difficulty. It's comparative to any other school in the US. For students outside the US and particularly outside English speaking countries, it can be more involved.
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Yes. In fact, I believe most of the students are international students. In my last course, I had students from Nigeria, Italy, Germany, the US, Vietnam, and China.
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Modest to "it depends." I'd place it on par with a local community college for myself. However, I think it depends more on the student. The instructors act more as moderators rather than instructors. There are no lectures, an
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Current student in the CS program. Feel free to ask questions.
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
Not yet. They started the process a few months ago.
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by uopeoplestudent 6y ago
The only required fees are an application fee and an exam fee per course. There are fees to transfer courses in, and many courses require a proctor. You can opt to have a professional in your community or use the online service ProctorU for