Course Grading & Credit Hour Fulfillment
Course Grading
The Open Door Academy's methodology of education and grading is to utilize a variety of learning styles to teach as well as to assess student learning, with the bulk of the knowledge assessments being built on Socratic discussion and the reading notebook. This broad-based assessment format should help alleviate unnecessary levels of student anxiety; additionally, it provides for and promotes deeper levels of learning than students would gain from rote memorization.
Credit Hour Fulfillment
The successful completion of a minimum of 112.5 hours of coursework is required in order to receive credit for a 3-unit, semester-long (15 week) course, which includes the following breakdown: 20 hours are allocated to class attendance, 50 hours to reading and notetaking in the reading journal, 17.5 hours to mentorship, 10 hours to individual assignment preparation, 10 hours to group discussions, and 6 hours to Final Oral Review preparation.