Well - I try the best I can to be positive towards my own university, but sometimes it just is enough....

When I start my courses, I always print the modules, so that I have them on paper. 

On a previous course I did this, and started delivering the modules.

Suddenly the professor started to tell me that I was handling in the wrong assignements. Can't be, I said.

I checked, and guess what. Aspen had CHANGED the modules without informing me. This happened AFTER I was enrolled, and had begun the course.

I had intensive dialogue with Aspen, but they could not tell me why it happened. Time wasted for me.

 

Guess what. Today the same stuff happens again on my new course. I have almost completed M2 on 590 Organizational behavior, and when I check the modules, THEY HAVE CHANGED IT AGAIN. This is nothing but sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.....

I started out with the 2005 version of the book, and now they have - again WITHOUT informing me - changed the book to the 2009 version, with completely different assignments. Hello? I really do not have the time for this......... Now I have to contact them AGAIN, and interrupt my study routine. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy

 

JohnDoe:

Well - I try the best I can to be positive towards my own university, but sometimes it just is enough....

When I start my courses, I always print the modules, so that I have them on paper. 

On a previous course I did this, and started delivering the modules.

Suddenly the professor started to tell me that I was handling in the wrong assignements. Can't be, I said.

I checked, and guess what. Aspen had CHANGED the modules without informing me. This happened AFTER I was enrolled, and had begun the course.

I had intensive dialogue with Aspen, but they could not tell me why it happened. Time wasted for me.

 

Guess what. Today the same s*h*i*t happens again on my new course. I have almost completed M2 on 590 Organizational behavior, and when I check the modules, THEY HAVE CHANGED IT AGAIN. This is nothing but sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.....

I started out with the 2005 version of the book, and now they have - again WITHOUT informing me - changed the book to the 2009 version, with completely different assignments. Hello? I really do not have the time for this......... Now I have to contact them AGAIN, and interrupt my study routine. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy

 

That's a royal pain in the neck (or elsewhere)...   I didn't run across that in the MBA-IM program... too bad they couldn't grandfather you since you had already enrolled...  did they, at least, give you extra time to get the new book(s)?

 

JohnDoe:

...When I start my courses, I always print the modules, so that I have them on paper. ...

Interesting approach...  (For me, it was easier to work electronically, so I save each course's module pages electronically...   it helped me keep white papers, module assignments, etc. separate... )

Having them electronically stored allowed me to bring them up in IE any time I wanted... ;-)  And, having the Windows SEARCH capability helped me find the things I was looking for when I wanted to go back to another course to grab a reference I remembered...  if course, the MBA-IM program had 7 IT-based courses... with that many, you can't help but have some overlap... 

Huh.  I have to admit that this doesn't sound very impressive.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

JohnDoe:

Well - I try the best I can to be positive towards my own university, but sometimes it just is enough....

When I start my courses, I always print the modules, so that I have them on paper. 

On a previous course I did this, and started delivering the modules.

Suddenly the professor started to tell me that I was handling in the wrong assignements. Can't be, I said.

I checked, and guess what. Aspen had CHANGED the modules without informing me. This happened AFTER I was enrolled, and had begun the course.

I had intensive dialogue with Aspen, but they could not tell me why it happened. Time wasted for me.

 

Guess what. Today the same s*h*i*t happens again on my new course. I have almost completed M2 on 590 Organizational behavior, and when I check the modules, THEY HAVE CHANGED IT AGAIN. This is nothing but sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.....

I started out with the 2005 version of the book, and now they have - again WITHOUT informing me - changed the book to the 2009 version, with completely different assignments. Hello? I really do not have the time for this......... Now I have to contact them AGAIN, and interrupt my study routine. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy

 

Damn. That has only happened to me in the course I am taking now. However, all they did was streamline some questions. The books and everything else was still the same. 

I could see why you would be pissed though. They need to cut you some slack.

 

Abner 

 

When did you start the course?  Just wondering...

 

As for the language, I understand the frustration but let's keep things "G" rated.  

Cajun:

When did you start the course?  Just wondering...

 

As for the language, I understand the frustration but let's keep things "G" rated.  

Will do. I will watch myself, as you have known me for a long time now, I have a tendency to be a travieso (naughty) sometimes! :)

Abner

I have never had course material change after I actually started working on the courses.  That's very odd.