EE&AE-Engineer
It has the potential to grow as a website
There's a lot that can be said about this site. The Pros: OLD has a good layout and accessing the courses are easy. Moreover there are/were enough courses that one could easily clear all of their humanities requirements for many colleges. (Originally, OLD had 15 accredit courses, but now down to 11.) The following is a list of courses that have no errors or issues in the quiz or content: Intro to Marketing & Strategy (BS101) Introduction to Robotics (RB101) Introduction to Programming (CS101) The Cons: After you take a quiz, you have no idea which questions you erred. The quizzes are locked and this is a detriment for learning. It becomes a crap shoot when studying for the final exam. Another con is good luck at trying to get a response from someone about errors in the course content. Cybersecurity & Cybercrime (CJ103) has obvious errors in the quiz's questions. I gave up after the 4 lesson. And Turning Points in Modern History (HS103) . . . well good luck in trying to hear the main lectures. The audio is slow low that even with turning the headset and sound card volume to max, it becomes difficult to hear the lecture. So either the lecturer needs to put air through his vocal cords or OLD needs to reprocess the audio track. If you want to know what it's like to go deaf, this is the course for you. And the following course Introduction to Microeconomics (EC101) is the worse offender. Firstly, the main lectures are taken from University of California. And there is a serious disconnect between the main lecture and quiz for each lesson. After four lessons, it became clear that whoever developed this course for OLD didn't connect the quiz to the lecture. On several of the lessons, I painstakingly searched the lecture to correctly match the answer to the question. And yet somehow I failed three quizzes. In the end, OLD can develop into a great site for online learning, but they need to do the following to reach that point: 1) Get a 3rd party who specializes in that particular course's content. Make sure that the answers to the questions can be found in the main lecture or supporting videos. Have them provide a time frame as to where such can be found. 2) Make lecture slides available in PDF for students. 3) Refrain from using lectures from other places, unless OLD can guarantee that there is no disconnect between the quizzes and content. See above for further detail. 4) Develop some means where students can see which quiz questions students erred. And with that I hope OLD develops into a great site for online learning.