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Here is a good question, 'how good are university degrees?' I worked teaching ESL in S.E. Asia and our most recent employees all have had masters or Ph.D.s. They proved pretty much useless. Degree holding means nothing, doing means everything. Having said that, I know there is value in a degree as a measure of commitment. Learning is one of the most enjoyable things one can do. There are many people with fake degrees teaching here, especially with fake or life experience degrees. I Googled, ‘life experience degrees suck’. There are some informative YouTubes on the subject. Cheers.
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Here is a good question for us all... 'how good are university degrees?' I worked teaching ESL in S.E. Asia and our three most recent employees, all have had masters or Ph.D.s. They proved pretty much useless. Degree holding means nothing, doing means everything. Having said that, I know there's value in a degree as a measurment of commitment. Learning is one of the most enjoyable things one can do. There are many people with fake degrees teaching in Asia with fake or life experience degrees. I Googled, ‘life experience degrees suck’ and found some informative YouTubes on the subject. Cheers. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]How good are university degrees? I worked teaching ESL in S.E. Asia and our three most recent employees all have had masters or Ph.D.s. They proved pretty much useless. Degree holding means nothing, doing means everything. Having said that, I know there is value in a degree as a measure of commitment. Learning is one of the most enjoyable things one can do. There are many people with fake degrees teaching here with fake or life experience degrees. I Googled, ‘life experience degrees suck’. There are some informative YouTubes on the subject. IMHO if your degree comes from a site that is not a dot.edu site, you've dead in the water. Good luck. [/SIZE][/FONT]
Conflict is good for the forum... Hmm. Seems like this issue gets people all excited. I did a little research on it and found that a youtube search of 'avoid doctorate fraud now'. You will find some interesting info. I'm not sure if life experience degrees are any good, but I always have wondered how you explain your school is a .com site. Hmm. (again), so long.
Here's one simple secret, look for a .edu. If you 'school' is a .com, .net or .org site, it is not a school. Google 'life experience degrees suck' and see the difference.
My husband recently received information regarding an online life experience degree from Ashford University. Has anyone heard of this? Is it a real Bachelor's degree or a hoax? The deal is that based on his work experience, he could earn a degree in his field. The website says it is a legitimate degree. The cost is around $600. Just curious, does anyone have one of these degrees?
I just graduated Ashford finishing up my old credits with their online program. I am now in graduate school there.
What this means is, you can "clep out" of a class for a fee, to use your real life experiences or work experience by writing a paper I believe, and submitting other requirements.
You're basically paying your way out of a general course.
My husband chose to not pay, and just take the courses since he enrolled as a Freshman.
It is not a hoax, I don't know about a degree, but with all of their degree programs, especially online, you can skip a few mundane general ed classes this way if you're willing to pay the fee.
That's how I understand this to work because they used it as a sales pitch to lure my husband along for the ride with me since I only had a year left for my Bachelor's, and he decided to just take the general education courses.
Which I would suggest doing anyways online especially because the material has been updated to reflect today's culture and living.
When we were in school last, the internet had not been invented yet, so we needed those courses to learn what is going on today anyway.
For the record, I was very happy with my Ashford education. I just graduated with my BA in communications with distinction: 4.0 GPA in the top 6% of my class.
Grad school is great so far, I'm on my second class now.
I just graduated Ashford finishing up my old credits with their online program. I am now in graduate school there.
What this means is, you can "clep out" of a class for a fee, to use your real life experiences or work experience by writing a paper I believe, and submitting other requirements.
You're basically paying your way out of a general course.
My husband chose to not pay, and just take the courses since he enrolled as a Freshman.
It is not a hoax, I don't know about a degree, but with all of their degree programs, especially online, you can skip a few mundane general ed classes this way if you're willing to pay the fee.
That's how I understand this to work because they used it as a sales pitch to lure my husband along for the ride with me since I only had a year left for my Bachelor's, and he decided to just take the general education courses.
Which I would suggest doing anyways online especially because the material has been updated to reflect today's culture and living.
When we were in school last, the internet had not been invented yet, so we needed those courses to learn what is going on today anyway.
For the record, I was very happy with my Ashford education. I just graduated with my BA in communications with distinction: 4.0 GPA in the top 6% of my class.
Grad school is great so far, I'm on my second class now.
I thought clepping was about demonstrating expertise in a specific area, therefore the course would not be necessary. What kind of classes can be clepped at Ashford for a fee and what kind of life experience? Just curious.
Our organization, News Wire Service, has done rather extensive research into Life Experience Degrees. We have yet to finalize our data and publish it, but anyone interested in the topic can gain some useful information if they Google 'life experience degrees suck'. We look forward to posting our findings sometime in the not-to-distant future. N.W.S.
If you are interested in a life experience degree you might want to Google 'life experience degrees suck'. It is pretty informative. Just remember not all is as it appears.
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Life Experience Degrees Suck
