When I initially drafted this piece about affordable options for college credit, I was going to frame it with background information and shocking details about the rising cost of education, how that cost is outpacing other economic indicators, and how student loan debt has reached $1,000,000,000,000. But you already knew that. So I’ll jump right […]
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This post is by Dr. Emad Rahim of Colorado Technical University, a new partner in our College Credit Pathways initiative, and coincides with the Saylor Foundation’s press release on guaranteed transfer credits for several of our courses.* It can be a difficult decision trying to figure out which degree program and University to transfer your credits […]
Read More… from Colorado Technical University: Identifying the Right Degree Program
Good news for a Wednesday morning — today we announced agreements with seven colleges and universities to guarantee credit for three of our courses. More schools and more courses are on the way in 2013. Read the release here, and please do share! […]
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We’ve just launched our first CLEP-aligned course! The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP®) is a widely-recognized credit-by-exam program. According to The College Board’s website, 2,900 higher education institutions are willing to accept CLEP exams for credit. While our course is not endorsed by The College Board, we’ve carefully re-worked our Intro to American Politics course (POLSC231) into POLSC232: American […]
Read More… from Our first CLEP® aligned course — POLSC232: American Government
You can always check out the release for more details, but here’s the gist of what we announced today: Thomas Edison State College (in historic Trenton, New Jersey!) will create new exams and assessments for some of our most popular courses, and we’ll map/re-align some of our courses to match existing exams in the Thomas […]