Is WGU Legit? (2021) | Western Governors University Review: SELF-PACED vs TRADITIONAL

In this video we're going to cover WGU and the pros and cons of their competency-based education model. I'm going to explain why their model is good thing and hopefully change the minds of some critics. We are going to talk about the difficulty of certain disciplines, and how people are completing their degrees so quickly.

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0:00 Intro
0:40 Thank you for 1k Subs
0:55 Problems with Traditional College System
2:30 Difficulty Illustration
4:45 Comparing Chem E with Business. Showing the Flaw.
6:10 Why there are a lot of 6-12mo Bachelors stories from WGU
7:25 My Bachelors Timeline vs Calculus (single class)
8:30 Why WGU is good.
9:28 Degrees with time constraints
10:20 3 Reasons why you are mad lol
11:55 Why are Bachelor's degrees called 4-year degrees?
12:35 Negative things about WGU
14:15 Outro

Is WGU Legit? How can you finish so fast? (2021) | EDUCATION DEEP-DIVE

My name is josh

Today I'm going to talk about WGU and the benefits and drawbacks of their competency-based education model.
I'm going to explain why their model is good thing and hopefully change the minds of some people who don't understand what's happening at a high level.
Simply put, if you have the mindset of this person, I'm going to change your mind today.
We're going to talk about why the traditional education system is so broken, and give you a solid understanding of why people are able to finish WGU so quickly.
So If you're excited for all of this, go ahead and smash the like button and let's get started.
Oh and by the way, before we get started, this is the first video I'm making after hitting 1k subs.
Seriously, thank you so much for watching my videos and subscribing, I never imagined I would hit 1k this fast. Absolutely crazy
Anyway, getting onto the video!

Traditional Education
Before we talk about WGUs model, we need to talk about traditional colleges and the traditional degree a little bit.
Don't get me wrong, the current education is much better than no education system, it's just not as good as it could be.
One of the major problems with it, is that it is somewhat implied that all degrees are equal in the sense of time-to complete. And in a sense this is true, because typical brick and mortar schools control the time it takes to graduation.
You know, the typical 3-4 quarters per year, and 4 years of class.
In actuality, all degrees are NOT created equally--It's not even close. So why are students forced to take 4 years to graduate whether or not they are majoring in Human Resources vs Nuclear Engineering. It doesn't make sense. (b-roll): http://nuc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FreshmanCurriculum2.png

Visual oscillations
To solidify this idea in your head a little better, I'm going to use some illustrations
The number of oscillations represent the academic rigor, amount of work required, and general difficulty required to understand the curriculum and graduate with a bachelor's in any given field. These are generalizations to convey an idea, not "facts", so please keep that in mind (Degree Difficulty):
Nuclear Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Physics
Computer Science
Nursing (BSN)
Information Technology
IT Management
Education
Communications
Now before I go further, let me be clear about something before I get killed by you guys.
What I'm describing in this chart is the academic rigor and mental gymnastics required to get a bachelor's degree in each of these fields.
What I'm *NOT* describing, is the general importance of each field. Obviously education and communications are just as important as the hard sciences, however, the effort required to get bachelors degrees in these fields are MUCH easier.

So looking at the number of oscillations (effort), why is it that brick and mortar colleges stretch out the graduation time for something like IT, IT management, education, and communication to require a 4 year time span?
It doesn't make sense.

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