My friend is taking a correspondence anatomy course from there and it is horrible. There is no guidance and the tutor is pretty bad.
The issue is the dislocation between study materials and what you are tested on in exams. There is no professor or guide telling you what topics to focus on etc. For her, it turned out to be literally read the whole entire textbook because the exam literally was made by some guy flipping randomly to pages and just picking out concepts and points so if there's some random list on some obscure page you didn't remember perfectly and vertbatim, you are screwed.
She was a 3.9 GPA honors student at the U of C. Pretty devastated scoring 60% on Athabasca exams. She is only taking it there because she could not take the course this semester at the U of C because of scheduling.
This may be a nuance restricted to this course however, as anatomy is a pretty complicated "list of things" oriented subject.
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