And, to be fair, in my current course (going on 5 weeks), I have not contacted the mentor. And before we go too far, let me be clear: the course mentors have an important job: to facilitate interaction, and provide additional insight/clarity into the course where a student runs into difficulty. As it stands now, this degree doesn’t meet my standards of learning material at a Master’s level.Īside from that, the biggest issue that I see with the non-technical degrees, is the lack of course mentor participation. For such an abstract degree, there needs to be some kind of structured interaction, even if it was recorded lectures. This isn’t technical concepts, but abstract ideas, theories, and principles that require more than reading a book to grasp and comprehend… they require discussion, elaboration, and context to be learned effectively (unless rote memorization is the goal.) That’s exactly why you don’t see English, World Lit, or Comparative Language Analysis degrees offered online. There is no way to measure what is actually learned correctly, retained, and put into practice.įor leadership topics, specifically, I have a hard time understanding how this material can be learned in a practical manner without some kind of public dialogue/discourse amongst the learning community. And from the tech perspective, if you think this counts as learning, then you should have no issues with brain dumping, because it’s the exact same thing – intentional (intended) short term retention to pass a class (or cert.) Frankly, you could chain a high school kid to a desk, and eventually, they would absorb enough to pass the test… but they wouldn’t necessarily have learned the material. The problem is, I haven’t learned the material.
For example – I can read a book, and, with rote memorization, pass an objective assessment. For these degrees, there is a key ingredient missing from the learning equation.
Mbt2 task3 pdf#
Sure, I wish some things were different, but overall, the MSISA has been a significant value for me.įor the non-technical degrees: digital books (that are simply online versions of textbooks that were specifically designed to be written in) and pdf files are, in my humble opinion, not enough to truly master the material within. WGU is filling a huge need, that is not being met by other (i.e., traditional) schools, and has provided a mechanism for those beyond their ‘college glory years’ (thinking of you, Frank the Tank!) to complete higher education degrees - to either fulfill goals that life got in the way of, or to advance professionally. My first experience with WGU was with the MSISA degree, and I loved it (although there were some things I would have changed, I felt I learned quite a bit, and validated a lot of what I already knew.) I would divide degrees from WGU into two sections – technical degrees (such as the IT tracks), and non-technical (such as the MSML.)įor the technical degrees: WGU is a godsend – finally, there was a legit way to translate technical knowledge and certs into college-level credit! No one in the tech community would argue that certain certifications require extensive, validated knowledge to pass, and as far as I know, WGU is the only college/university tie together that specific, useful knowledge to college credit.
After much thought, I think I have decided that WGU’s Management and Leadership degree isn’t right for me.
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