Cyber-Ed versus Thinkwell

[Gwen in VA]

They are both video lecture programs with online quizzes and tests available. After 15 minutes of poking around their websites, I cannot see a great deal of difference between the two programs.

I would love to hear any feedback from folks who have used either one. I am looking specifically at biology, but hearing how pre-calculus or any other subject went for you would be very helpful to me!

Thank you!

[Anne/Ankara]

Gwen, I bought the Thinkwell biology set of CD's last year from them for about $90, if I recall correctly. These are nice tutorials on AP or College Biology, and are very well done. I did not try the testing option or the online grading and such. I see that you can purchase the CD's from EBAY for about $60, but they would not have an online account, I guess, so no grading (but of course you would have the CD's for later use and it wouldn't be a one-year account or anything). The 7 CD's seem to cover everything that you need.

But the Cyber-Ed, now how does that work? What is the cheapest form that you can order and receive a set of CD's for the AP Biology course? It looks like it is divided into many subsets, and if you buy the whole biology series, it is big bucks ($2500?). What would correspond to the AP Biology course? Hard to see!

Anyone else with information? We are starting biology again next year, so I am interested in what is available for a reasonable price...

[periwinkle]

from the http://www.homeschoolbuyerscoop.com

on a group buy for $20 apiece last summer. Registration is free, and they offer the group buys every few months. I am very pleased with the presentation of the material, but I haven't followed along too closely as I am using this rather loosely for my 6th grader. I wonder what the Biology and Chemistry high school courses would be like. There are ancillary materials available at the homeschool buyer's co-op website, but no labs for the courses I am using (at least none that I am aware of).