Universities Weblog

Jamie Littlefield across the hall from me here at Creative Weblogging had a good piece last week at her Online Universities Weblog about life experience credit.

Jamie talks about the distinction between diploma mills (the kind of place where you can get your degree in astro-engineering or nanocomputing by writing a couple of term papers) and legitimate institutions that offer life experience credit for things you've actually done. Paying a few hundred dollars to get a nice sheepskin diploma from the University of Mail Order Credentials won't really get you anywhere in life. But many accredited colleges and universities offer different forms of life experience credit that can translate into time saved as you work toward a recognized degree.

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