re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Rosendo, I don't know if you have been on Moodle today, but there is an open revolt. Several threads were started criticizing White. In response, she pulled down all of the forums and sent an email to everyone in the course. She is of course pulling out all of the people who dropped from the class average to make it higher and make herself look better.

Has anyone who has more experience in the program seen anything like this before? Several students were going to contact Dr. Knotts and I will be interested to see how the school handles an attack on their cash cow. At this point, with two weeks still to go before the withdrawal date, over 33% of the class has dropped.

@Buck. Just the beginning IMO with this no text format. That's insane if in fact 33% of the class has dropped. It isn't just confined to the newer professors. MADM715 course structure is terrible too. (Giving it a 'D' is being generous IMO). A copy and paste text full of plagiarism and a course project with an abstract setup that many don't have a clue about. (And can't get an answer from Wren over the past week)

The thought of dropping from this program has crossed my mind as well. Will probably stick it out as only have 2 courses to go. With this no text setup, I'd advise people look for a program elsewhere. If just getting started in the program, I'd see if can transfer the credits elsewhere. Program has quickly turned from a good value to "get what you pay for" over the past few months with no text format.

I feel for you guys going through ECON705 with White. A valuable lesson here is to stick with known entities as much as possible and in this case Shaugnessy for ECON705 all the way, best prof in the program to date for me, hands down.

I wouldn't call MADM715's format my most favorite, but I don't know that it's that bad. I'm learning a lot, and, yes, it's a bit disorganized, but at least the text, for what it is, is readable. The course doesn't have a huge week to week writing load like MADM752 or MADM701, so while the project is a bit stressful, I'm not sure that there's any more work than other courses in the program.

There are a lot of gimme points--the weekly tweets, picking a project topic from a list, picking a 10 word project title, etc. None of which take that much time though, so it's not like the busy work of MADM701 with weekly papers.

Going back to when I started the program, Fall AP2 2016, the complaints there were courses on auto-pilot and too much reliance on Cengage. Hopefully the pendulum swings a bit more toward the middle.

For the folks in White's ECON705, I'm sorry to hear it's such a bad class that so many people are dropping. If I recall correctly, White is a known bad teacher and this thread mentioned her BADM 701 course was a hot mess.

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I am currently taking ECON 705 with Shaugnessy and having a hard time solving his assignments. I couldn't ask anyone for help including the professor. Do you guys have any advices?

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Attend his zoom sessions. Also his videos of past zoom sessions are very valuable. I do not understand why you can't ask Dr. S for help, he is very approachable and is always glad to help.

Hey Daily,

Ha. "powerpoints are of low quality" may be the understatement of the year.

How are your impressions now that we're a couple weeks into it. I've been averaging about 1300-1500 words on my assignments. Don't know if I'm overkilling or if that's what it takes to get full credit. Seems odd to just have a list of questions. I feel like I could just copy/paste the paragraph out of the text for each question. Like you said, some of the questions don't lend themselves to discussion as much as a simple answer.

This is my first class at LSUS. How does HCAD 750 stack up to the other classes as far as amount of work / difficulty. The instructor seems pretty disengaged other than reminding people that they won't get credit for any late work.

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How are your impressions now that we're a couple weeks into [HCAD 750]?

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If it continues along this trend, it will end up being a fairly easy class that feels sloppily put together, taught by a largely indifferent professor. That's disappointing because I was actually really looking forward to this course going into it. It is very similar to MADM 701 (a core class) with Tammi Knotts. In fact, I'm pretty sure he was told to basically copy that class because he helped with it last session (or at least observed it).

Writing assignments: I've written between 1000 - 1200 words for the first 2 assignments, though, as mentioned, hardly any of them are conducive to a discussion or elaboration. Most amount to straight up definitions, some of which only line up with the terminology and categories of this specific book he's getting the questions from. The most difficult part is finding sources that even remotely make sense and then trying to tie that into the question. I received an 'A' on the first assignment, but not a 100%. I expect a similar grade on the second assignment, especially since he didn't give us our first grade until a full week later.

Forum post: We're obviously having our first one this week, so I don't know how hard he'll grade them but I feel like the questions are really focused on someone with a job currently in healthcare. As I'm in an MBA program, I was hoping for more of a business slant to it. We'll see how it goes.

Exams: This is the most bizarre part of this class. The majority of the questions come from the slides which are from a different book than the one we are reading. I have a theory as to why this is but I may elaborate on that in a different post. I suspect it has to do with LSUS's free textbook policy. I've done fine on the exams, but I think I'm just going to focus on the slides from now on, even if they don't always make sense, divorced from the textbook they originated from.

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Just took the ISDS 705 exam, its everything I'd hoped for and more

The only issue I have is that I need to shower after that ProctorU experience.