LisaKinVA Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 I just received the e-mail from NROC/Hippocampus. The AP Biology course (as well as a number of other courses) will no longer be accessible :( I've just spend days entering the lesson plan for this into HST+ UGH! Well, I guess I have time to try to coordinate bozemanscience with my Campbell & Reese text (at least I have *all* of the books for that...and the instructor guides.) And, it's back to the drawing board for AP US History for 2014-2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Changed Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 What?! :crying: We've been using the AP Biology and AP US History. Now what are we going to do? Is this a common practice with Hippocampus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowbeltmom Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 I just received the e-mail from NROC/Hippocampus. The AP Biology course (as well as a number of other courses) will no longer be accessible :( Did the email provide a reason why the courses will no longer be accessible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RanchGirl Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 oh how frustrating for you. I wonder if they are concerned that it hasn't been updated to reflect changes in the AP test.... I hope they will come out with an updated version! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 A few months ago UC announced that they would be shifting courses at UCCP to an instuctor assisted fee based site names Scout. Several of the courses on NROC used videos that were on UCCP and that seemed to have been created by UC. I don't know if the change in AP bio on NROC is because of course changes or because UC is limiting use of their videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 With all the offerings for free OCW: can you find a substitute? (I am not sure what you are looking for in a course; to me, the textbook would be all that is necessary.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanetC Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Can you download/archive it while it is still available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in NY Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 oh how frustrating for you. I wonder if they are concerned that it hasn't been updated to reflect changes in the AP test.... I hope they will come out with an updated version! This would be my guess.... to me the test this year for dd#2 seemed radically different than when dd#1 had a go. There was much less info to memorize... lots more analysis. I hope they come up with something new for you, Lisa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Beth from HippoCampus.org Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Hi All, I am Beth Pickett, the Product Manager at HippoCampus.org. I'd like to clarify what is happening at HippoCampus, and why. To Lisa K. and Snowbeltmom, it is correct that in June of 2014 (a year from now) our 10-year contract to make the UCCP content available at HippoCampus will expire. We've been negotiating with them for the past three years to try to get them to renew, but they wish to sell the content, so it will be retired from HippoCampus.org at that time. To vcoots, this is the first time that content is being retired from HippoCampus--it is by no means something that occurs on a regular basis. Courses and content that we (NROC) have created with grant funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Algebra 1--An Open Course, Developmental Math--An Open Program, and the forthcoming Developmental English) are permanent fixtures at HippoCampus, as is the content from Khan Academy, PhET, and NOAA. Collections that we are adding in early July 2013 (SIATech English; Dallas County Community College District English/Sociology/Business/US History; Art of Problem Solving math content) each have their own contract lengths, from five to 20 years. We are also actively looking for other collections to include at HippoCampus, in particular for US History, so if you have suggestions, let me know (bpickett@theNROCproject.org). Janet C., no, unfortunately the content is not downloadable or archivable. HippoCampus will still be going strong after the UCCP content fades out. We hope to add a lot of collections to HippoCampus over the next 12 months to keep a wide variety of high quality multimedia content available for Homeschoolers and others. Please feel free to email me if you have questions, concerns, or suggestions. Best, Beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Is this the biology from Kahn academy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 For US History may I suggest the Constitution and Bill of Rights online modules from The Center for the Constitution at Montpelier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Beth from HippoCampus.org Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Regarding Parrothead's question about Biology, there is content from Khan Academy, NROC, UCCP, and PhET on the HippoCampus Biology subject page (http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/Biology). Only the content from UCCP (the AP Biology course) is being retired in June of 2014. If we find appropriately high-quality multimedia content from other sources, we'll add that to the page to continue the site's growth and usefulness to homeschool and traditional school users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaKinVA Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 What made the Biology for AP (Environmental Sciece for AP, and other courses that are going away) nice is that it was all planned out for me...and mapped to a textbook. Most of the other content I now have to align and figure out to make it into a course. I do appreciate the content that HippoCampus puts together...hoping that some of the new content will be easy to launch courses :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I **think** it is available through UCCP scout program for $40/year. Can't really tell though.http://www.uccp.org/ I won't be ready for this until it is off of HippoCampus and would like * it * or something similar for DD12 to use in 1.5 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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