re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

I just took the final exam in ISDS 702, and I gotta say it was rough. I felt like I guessed on about half of the questions, yet somehow I ended up getting 110/150 on it, which put me at an 84% on the class. This will be my first B in the program. While the interaction effects on multiple linear regression material got really difficult for me at the end, I don’t feel like the overall course material was too difficult. Rather, I think Dr. Koksal fell short as a teacher. This was my fifth course in the program (the others being ACCT 701, FIN 710, FIN 701, and ECON 705), so I feel like I’ve had a good sample of difficult professors/course materials (especially FIN 710) from the program, yet I managed high As in all of those courses. I’ve worked really hard towards a 4.0 in the program, and that hope is now gone.

Honestly, the way Dr. Koksal “taught” this class was ineffective. He was purposely vague, and at times totally unresponsive, to students on the discussion boards. And the one time I did email him, he didn’t respond for nearly a week. Couple that with the fact that he didn’t post his solutions to the Practice Problems until the end of the week, and the fact that he “restricted” access to previous weeks discussion forums, makes me feel like he really doesn’t understand or care about the whole learning process, at least as it translates to our grade. In my opinion, when learning new material, it is important to do work, make mistakes, and then be able to learn from your mistakes (which requires knowing where the mistakes were made), in order to truely learn. And it would’ve been great if we were able to do those things without a detrimental impact on our grades. Ah well. Rant over. Onward and upward. Best of luck to you all!