As online learning takes off, there will be more providers offering exams/certifications for certain topics/courses.
Or... There should be less emphasis on whether or not someone has a degree, and more emphasis on what they can actually do.
Which is quite hard to measure. Hence the need for credentialing, such as certifications, portfolios, etc, testing, prior experience, and yes, degrees. What's odd about a degree is that it's the learning coupled with the credentialing.
True. Usually a degree these days has inflated value, but it says something though, and that's fact that one has made an effort at finishing something.
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My Dad often talks about "challenging" a course, where you take the final test, and if you pass you get full course credit. I've never heard of a school offering this in any kind of usable capacity. At what point did this stop being offered?
You can still do it. CLEP [0] is one standard way. You can also request credit by examination for courses not covered by CLEP...this requires departmental approval and paying for a custom exam to be created.
CLEP hands down. I was able to graduate in less than 3 years because I started taking CLEP exams while I was in high school. I also took AP exams as well. Saved me tens of thousands in tuition fees, no joke.
People ask me how I was able to graduate so quickly and with no debt. All thanks to CLEP and AP exams.