re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

For those of you who have taken MADM 715, how should I approach the presentation to reach the full 10 minutes? What did you all do? Im kind of stuck on where to start. I would appreciate any feedback given! Thank you!

Got a little heated in the ACCT course forum about the exam. Looks like Ambrosio deleted it all.
I also read in that discussion that he took it in 20 minutes. He doubled that to come up with the 40.

Brent, what was said? Was it a thread by Ambrosio or a student?

When/where did he communicate that everyone would be getting an additional 50 points on Exam 1? I looked through my forum digest on my email account and didn't see this come up.

Jeaux Cool, I agree with you that no one enjoys being the guinea pig. But someone has to be and this time it's us.

I really like Ambrosio. It's an honest mistake on the length of the exam. He's really trying. It's LSUS administration that mandated he go away from Cengage and re-format to a free textbook. He was very generous giving us 50 bonus points. Three more weeks. We all got this!

Jeaux Cool, I'm with you there. Just ready to get to the finish line of this class. Hopefully he'll get the bugs worked out with us and this class will be better for the next set of students.

zdt, thanks for the input on 720. I tentatively planned to take that course in spring 2. I may keep my options open until more feedback comes through.

This is also why it is important for students to fill out the course evaluations at the end of each class, so that changes can be made on the back side.

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I personally feel that professors should have some leeway on requiring purchased textbooks for their classes.

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I agree with this 100%. In MADM760 with Meeks I don't see how he teaches that class without the "Playing To Win" book. That was such a vital part of the learning experience of the class.

I've seen these sorts of "oh god, everything is so hard" threads for a few classes. BADM701 and ECON705 had them. Like FIN720, I've definitely seen each of them called "the toughest class in the program." Since all my previous classes disappeared from Moodle, I can't really look back to see about some of the other classes.

Personally, I can't give real negative feedback for this professor on either FIN720 (halfway through) or FIN710. For me, they're structured well, with minimal fluff. I learn well on my own and don't attend the zoom sessions of any of the professors. I recommend building Excel spreadsheets for the various problem types for all of the Finance classes, since Finance has a lot of formula-based calculations. They reduce the time taken and the likelihood of a calculation error. People can get tripped up on the test when he combines several problems into one (find a value based on one formula, use it to get the answer from another formula).

The one specific piece of feedback I would give is to be very careful of problems vulnerable to rounding error, because they crop up from time to time and can make none of the answers look correct until you round in the same way the professor did. In the class materials, he rounds early and to few digits. On the tests, he seems to round very late.

Also, he likes tricky true/false questions based on comprehension of things not explicitly spelled out in the material, which is where I tend to miss points. A lot of the time I feel like both answers could be correct, if [some specific consideration not in the problem]. Those questions tend to be worth the least, so that helps.

It sucks to see people struggling when they're reportedly putting in the time and effort. If you're good at inferring concepts from examples, good at math, and otherwise prefer learning on your own, these classes are fairly painless and rewarding. I enjoy them more than writing 1000 word essays and memorizing bullet points for exams on half a dozen similar motivation theories (and the names of the authors) for MADM 701.