Info on OPMEs

[Eye In The Sky]

Same as mine, but I wrote a hard copy exam for DCE001 in the BPSOs office.

For Mil law, I had just completed the Presiding Officer's Course the week before the OPME started - I figured I'd give the 2 exams for Mil Law a go right off the bat assuming they'd pretty much echo the exams from the POC; they did. It was the quickest OPME that I ever did - many of the questions were similar.

Hmm...now that you mention it...I think my DCE 001 exam was hard copy...and was mailed back to the Prof for marking?  I think I mixed up the DCE 001 and BEW exams (both I had to do at the FPSO office).

I think DCE 001 and 002 should be mandatory IT & E for all MCpls and above.  Just MHO.

 

[Journeyman]

Do people ever use OPME courses specifically to get the two UNI. credits required to apply to UTPNCM?

I can't specifically answer your question, since I applied (back when the earth was still cooling) with both university correspondence-course credits and OPMEs. I suspect a BPSO will have to answer your question.

The OPMEs, however, still paid dividends because they were accepted by the university and contributed to writing off my first year.

 

[vonGarvin]

Unlike Journeyman, by the time I had applied for UTPNCM, the earth had already cooled: just.  Anyway, another component to being eligible for application, back then, was to be already accepted into a university.  FWIW.  Cheers.

 

[CallOfDuty]

  Thanks guys...I understand the prerequisites for UTP....it's just that I'm at the very beginning....and have no OPME's or anything, except for university prep high school credits.

 

[muffin]

When I did DCE 001, IIRC I went to the BPSO office and wrote the online exam there. 

For DCE 002, there was 2 exams (1 per module) for Module 1 - Military Law and Module 2 - LOAC.  Each of the exams were done via the DNDLearn site, and were timed exams and I completed them in my living room at home.

That was 2 years ago though, so not sure how current that is.

Hey there
DCE001 is totally online now like 002 is - there are 3 modules and each has it's own exam. The passmark for each exam/module is 70

muffin

 

[muffin]

  Hey guys, I have a couple of questions about OPME's if you please....  Do people ever use OPME courses specifically to get the two UNI. credits required to apply to UTPNCM? 
  I've been researching a bit on distance ed from the different universities, but am thinking that if I can take a couple of on-site courses and grab my two credits, that would be even better.  Is it frowned upon by the UTPNCM board, if the applicant took only opme's?
  Happy new year! :snowman:

LOTS of people do this. 4 of the 6 OPME's are University level - you just have to have them transfered to RMC to get an actual transcript when you are done - OPME's are pass/fail/honours - so to get a transcript with grades you have to transfer them over to a program or as Interest only. They have a system in place already for this. You can get info on that by talking to the PLAR people at RMC.
muffin

 

[observor 69]

Just an observation. Many many years ago... I had accumulated five credits thru OPMEs, trade and rank that the University of Manitoba would accept.
I was transferred to CFB Kingston and wanted to start taking credits at Queen's U towards a degree. Queen's wouldn't accept any military credits and there was no way I could get approval from U of Man in time to take a Queen's part time course before it started.
Had to make a decision; go all U of Manitoba program or sacrifice the military credits and go all Queen's. As I knew I was going to retire to Kingston I chose Queen's.
Also if I wanted to go on to a Masters the Manitoba degree wouldn't contain the proper  acceptable credits for Queen's.
If you are getting a degree with military credits it is good for military advancement but in the civy world it had shortcomings, at least at that time.

 

[CallOfDuty]

Thank you muffin.

 

[SupersonicMax]

Maybe muffin (or anyone else) can answer this.

With DNDLearn now (exclusively self study material, at least for DCE001 and 002), I have a hard time understanding why they have to run the courses in "sessions" (Winter, Summer, Fall).  Why can't people join at any time and have X amount of time to do the course?  I understand facilitators are required, however having been involved with DNDLearn for an other course (AFOD), it didn't seem, from the outside, to be a very demanding job with respect to student admin. I may be wrong on that as I have not been involved from the "inside", but only had very few interractions with my facilitator, mainly requesting password for the challenges (that process too could be improved upon, but that's an other story).

The system would be much more flexible that way and people could do the courses when they have time to do it and sometimes on short notice.

 

[muffin]

Maybe muffin (or anyone else) can answer this.

With DNDLearn now (exclusively self study material, at least for DCE001 and 002), I have a hard time understanding why they have to run the courses in "sessions" (Winter, Summer, Fall).  Why can't people join at any time and have X amount of time to do the course?  I understand facilitators are required, however having been involved with DNDLearn for an other course (AFOD), it didn't seem, from the outside, to be a very demanding job with respect to student admin. I may be wrong on that as I have not been involved from the "inside", but only had very few interractions with my facilitator, mainly requesting password for the challenges (that process too could be improved upon, but that's an other story).

The system would be much more flexible that way and people could do the courses when they have time to do it and sometimes on short notice.

A lot of it has to do with contracting and staffing of instructors as I understand it... but I do know RMC was looking at making DCE/DEF001-002 "continuous registration" - but were just sorting out the "logistical bugs" involved. Almost all the other courses they deal with are session based so that's how most things are set up to work - I do believe it is in the works.
Each school has it's own admin/policy hurdles - AFOD has all military facilitators so they don't have to worry about civi contracting - but they do have their own issues -

I know they have made exceptions "ie late registrations" in 001 and 002 in the past - however they have had a change in Management in the last APS so I couldn't tell you what they would do this time around. It doesn't hurt to ask I suppose