wouldn't that be cheating? now there's a scary thought. Someone passes FEMA EMI courses by using group interaction on the quizes and then transfers them to TESC. He uses those courses (he never really learned from) to get a TESC AS or BS in Emergency Management. He uses that TESC degree to get a job as a small county Emergency Management Director. That small county ends up being the site of the next Big One and our cheating degree holder is now in charge of the operation. Hundreds or thousands die as a result. There are billions of dollars of loss. SNAFU Now I'm going to have to bother to find out where my local county Emergency Management Director got his degree.
You can open the test in one window and the document in another and keyword search it. It takes less than 45 minutes to complete an online FEMA course, so I don't think that additional collaboration is really all that necessary. That's my opinion, anyway.
Yes, it would be very wrong to ask anyone to swap answers with you on any for credit exam. I took one FEMA course just to see what they were like. In less than two hours I had read the documentation and completed the exam, which by the way I passed. All the answers for the test were directly out of the documentation that’s given to you via the net and, at least for the course I took, not really that difficult. Have you even taken one of these exams to see how you would do without cheating?
hmm... yeah the courses are really not hard, I am just using the find option already and not learning anything and it only takes about a half hour. But in reality I really have no desire to learn, only a desire to get a degree. That is why i have taken so my credits by exams. but i guess if we start trading answers then they will take it down and i will ruin it for everyone.
Ouch! This is a prime example of why distant learning degrees are look upon with scrutiny and contempt.
but does anyone really go to school because they really want to learn or just so they can get a degree and get a better job. Maybe you want to learn about your major, but all the extra crap i find to be useless knowledge. most people i know feel the same way, either by distant learners or actually on campus students.
Academic Intergrity Yes, people go to school to learn so perhaps they can get, "a better job"! Cheating will catch up with you in one way or another! If you want to cheat and get a degree, you in essence bring down the academic integrity of all those who have gone before you and obtained a degree! I can deal with a person who has a 2.0 GPA and graduated from a local no name college but a person who cheats his way through college often carries that attribute with him or her to "real life". Employers and Co-workers notice those behaviors and many corporations will terminate you for the slightest deviation of integrity. I've seen employers fire people for taking home stationary and pens for personal use. Liars, forget about it, they get fired all the time! Perhaps you should take an Ethics course! Who knows? You may learn something??
Alternative Idea If you really have an interest in emergency management, I recommend you do a search or make a forum on Yahoo that deals with the desired topic. I'm sure you can put together a study group that will be mutually beneficial.
Luckily for all of us TESC requires 250-500 hours of work experience or volunteering in the major for this degree.
Re: Academic Intergrity I would take an ethics course but I already passed both the DSST and the excelsior exam on ethics. too bad.
Academic Integrity quoted by originalbigjim QUOTE]I would take an ethics course but I already passed both the DSST and the excelsior exam on ethics. too bad.[/QUOTE] Congratulations on passing! You obviously have a conscience or wouldn't be trying to rationalize a desire to cheat on exams.
I remember when people would have never even thought to ask a question like this on this board. You are supposed to earn you degree through learning not through cheating. A degree is not something that one would want to earn "at all costs".
