What’s up with the cookie cutter pre college summer course sites?

[Anonymous]

I see pre College classes available for high school students online and skipping around. I noticed. Many of the sites are constructed exactly the same way. What gives? Are they actually courses from these universities? Why are they all constructed exactly the same way?

[Anonymous]

It would help if you provide links.

There are several summer providers who offer camp weeks/experiences at multiple college campuses. But those are not credit granting. IDTech is one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see pre College classes available for high school students online and skipping around. I noticed. Many of the sites are constructed exactly the same way. What gives? Are they actually courses from these universities? Why are they all constructed exactly the same way?

Because they can get website templates and they are all selling the same product and they aren't web development courses.

[Anonymous]

I believe that if they are not granting credit it's a "pay to play" thing, will not have much value.

[Anonymous]

The schools probably contract out the marketing part of these—if not the programs themselves—because no one who works there wants to deal with that.

—higher ed comms staff member

[Anonymous]

The websites are awful (bad looking, hard to use, hard to find info, etc) and do all look the same. There must be one awful company doing them all.