Dumb question about education...

[thelorax]

My opinion on higher education and a test for cumulative passing of a course, although may be correct in some situations, ie. passing over of basic tedium in a sudject, there are a few notions I have otherwise. Sometimes it is the journey, and not just the destination. College is about learning to learn, and it is also supposed to be meant to learn to produce.

 

[mont7071]

can't you enroll into a program, and like.."CLEP" your courses? Meaning, isntead of taking the semester, you just take a course if you pass you get credits. Quoted from Collegeboard.com "Did you know that doing well on a CLEP exam can earn you the same amount of credit that you'd get if you took — and did well in — a semester- or year-long college course covering the same material? Read on to learn how to get credit for what you already know."

CLEP: Getting College Credit

If anybody knows more on this subject, please share - i myself would like to know more about this.
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CLEP credits are used just to fill in gaps and get some extra credit hours when you are already pursuing a degree, usually in an area you already know something about and would be wasting time taking the 101 classes (e.g. I Clepp'd out of all my foreign language and Lab Science classes as a Business undergrad). Since the CLEP credits are only recognized by a college a student is enrolled at, they wouldn't be of any use if you never took real classes as a degree-seeking college student.

 

[BradleyT2p2]

Well you could open your own training center and issue certificates if you want. Good luck at getting employers to accept your certificates as being anything more than worthless paper and good luck getting any people to sign up when employers don't accept your certificates.

The Microsoft and Cisco certifications are viable alternatives to a formal degree. But those are huge corporations that had the money, resources, and time required to get industry adoption.