Online Education Review

Online Education Review

My experience with this online course has been very enjoyable. This is my second online course. The first online class I had was a history class I took through a community college. I enjoyed the course, but it basically consisted of two tests and three papers. It was much less work than this course, but I still managed to learn a good amount. This Epics of India course has been an awesome experience for me. I have enjoyed the creativity needed to write the Storytelling posts as well as my storybook. The feedback I get back on my writing is so helpful and it was also beneficial to my writing to go through other peoples writing and critique it. I feel like I'm usually too nice, but it was good to read and see what styles works well. The feedback from the professor and the resources she had available to better our writing was incredible. I also learned a lot about creating and managing a website and blog which is such a useful skill. Overall my experience with online classes has been excellent and I would certainly be willing to take more if given the opportunity!

Blogging in the class was awesome!

Gen. Ed. Review

Gen. Ed. Review

I have really enjoyed the gen. ed. courses I've taken at OU. Originally I was in the honors college so a couple of my gen. ed. classes doubled as honors. I really enjoyed those classes because they had such small class sizes, and were very challenging! I think the humanities Gen. Ed. has been a very important part of my education because it forces me to broaden my education rather than taking a bunch of science and electrical engineering classes. I've really enjoyed digging into topics I wouldn't otherwise take the chance to learn about. The science and math gen. ed. requirements have also been beneficial, but were also extremely necessary for my degree. Overall I've had very good experiences with gen. ed. at OU, even my massive 100+ student chemistry class I took freshman year!

Large classroom

College Writing Review

College Writing Review

My college writing experience has been fairly technical as an electrical engineering major. My freshman year I took expository writing, which gave me some exposure to more creative writing. I really enjoyed the class because the topic was myth and hero, and I got to write about super heroes for my final paper. I did fairly well in the class, but writing is certainly one of my weaknesses when it comes to grammar and structure. Creativity was never a problem for me though, which made it really fun! Besides expository writing I have written several technical papers in my engineering courses, which I took very seriously because it's so important for my future career. I like technical writing because it's easy to write scientific papers that are very structured, and it's enjoyable to try and convey scientific ideas well! I was also a co-author of a journal article for some undergraduate research I did this past summer. The article was about pattern and polarization agile annular slot antennas. Writing that was a great time to put in the work and discover many interesting things and then collaborate with a graduate student and writing it up! I wish I had taken a class specifically about technical writing. There is a course that many engineers take for a professional elective, but I had already fulfilled that elective requirement so I didn't take it! This class was also a great writing experience for me. I hadn't had any classes that gave me the opportunity to comment on other peoples work, so it was great to be able to do that. I also really enjoyed being able to be so creative with my writing and I had so much fun with the elephant story book. Having the professors detailed feedback was also amazing and really helped refine my writing skills. Overall I'm very pleased with my experience with writing at OU.

Typical College Writing Experience