System Design and Development Reviews

Masters in Curriculum and Instruction

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on March 4, 2008

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Resources were current and research based. Our county is moving forward with adopting and implementing the new standards for the 21st Century and I am a leader due to my recent coursework.  My entire practicum and portfolio are based on evidences of work I completed during my coursework for the masters of Cuirriculum and Instruction.  All my documents require an understanding of these standards and the ability to implement them within an instructional model.  I have a high regard for the resources and expected assignments from this program.

MS - System Design and Programming

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on January 22, 2008

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I'm in my 5th class in the Systems Design and Programming curriculum.  I find the course work emphasizes individual research with properly referenced papers.  The programming classes are challenging and also encourage a high level of motiviation and research.  My project this semester is to implement a client-server architecture using Java-RMI interacting with a MYSQL database.  Need I say more?

Capella is Exceptional

By: triciamayes (In Progress) on May 18, 2007

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Capella University is by the most exceptional University online that I have found.  They are very upfront about their policies and have never done anything reguarding my degree without my consent.  I attended my undergrad at the University of Illinois, which by in large, was great, however, the staff at U of I was not always helpful, and I ended up doing an extra year of coursework because of the misdirection.  

Since coming to Capella, my roadmap, so to speak, has been clear and consise, and my team of advisors have kept in exceptional contact with me throughout the process.  I will be completing my MBA very soon and hope to obtain my PhD here as well.  I have recommended many collegues and close friends to the school, because I believe in the values this college promotes.

Good Online University

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on April 7, 2007

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The value comes from the real world experience of the instructors and the "adult" students. Most in the Ph.D. program have brick and mortar graduate and undergraduate degrees and extensive experience in their fields. All I know who have graduated where alike to use their degrees to advance.

Avoid at all costs

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on December 28, 2006

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Capella University is nothing more than an online money-making scam. There is good reason for online-degree programs to be looked down upon by others and the so-called “education” you pay prime dollars to buy from Capella certainly explains why so many consider all online “universities” to be substandard.

For example, Capella hires and retains “instructors” who have literally bought their graduate “degrees” from diploma mills. That’s right, Capella University knowingly subjects their students (which they call “learners”) to unethical “instructors” who have purchased fake degrees. 

Students with disabilities are also subjected to gross incompetence as evidenced by not only lawsuits that are pending against the University for their failure to accommodate such students but also by the fact that their disabilities services director apparently has never taught. Not only that, but she seemingly has no background, whatsoever, in disabilities services prior to working at Capella. While Capella likes to brag about her in their advertisements and other promotional materials, she recently posted her resume on the web which is rather embarrassing – prior to being hired by Capella University she was a “team leader” for Mervyn’s (the retail store) and a residence-hall director.

As if that’s bad enough, Capella University is currently being audited for stealing approximately $500,000 (half-a-million dollars) from taxpayers by the United States Department of Education, Office of the Inspector General. While the audit hasn’t been completed yet, this information was provided by Capella University to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Who knows how much Capella has really stolen so far? Only time will tell.

Another major problem is that Capella University seems to have ongoing management problems. For example, their School of Psychology has had a seemingly endless stream of “deans” (which Capella often refers to as “Executive Directors”). This has apparently created a tremendous amount of instability.

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