Graduate Extension Credits for Non-Educators

So I was browsing around and I came across a number of schools offering self-paced graduate courses for educators. They award "graduate extension credits" which, some schools say, COULD transfer into a degree program but are really intended for educators to get the pay bump.

A few of these schools have some pretty interesting topics in history, social justice etc.

I am curious if anyone has used credits like this to transfer in to a graduate program (maybe Excelsior?). Or if anyone had any thoughts about it as a whole.

Example programs:
Dominican University
University of San Diego

 

I know one person who used VESi courses toward a BA in Social Science at TESC. You might be interested in this thread I started that lists several organizations that offer graduate continuing education courses that are worth college credit.

Cheap Graduate Credits in Education and Possible Transfer Credits to the Big 3

ACT Program is now Advancement Courses.
Continuing Education Courses for Teachers, Salary Advancement | Advancement Courses

 

Another educator option (credit-granting) with several partner colleges /universities:

Earn Graduate Credit : PBS TeacherLine

Welcome : PBS TeacherLine

 

That is awesome Sanantone! Do you happen to have a quick link for the situation where these credits were used toward a BA at TESC?

 

This is helpful, thank you.

I may take one or two of the graduate level courses and throw out an application to TESC or Excelsior. I'm curious if they transfer at the graduate level.

 

I couldn't find where ACE_King first posted about this. He's the guy who posted in the thread I linked to. I guess I could find it if I logged in to the site and viewed all of his posts. Education credits are normally free electives at the Big 3 except for maybe in COSC's child development programs, so he had to argue that the courses he took were social sciences in content.

I'm sure they would accept them if they applied to the degree program. Outside of nursing education, Excelsior does not have a graduate education program. TESC does have two education programs. If you could argue that any of these courses with education prefixes are actually natural science, social science, humanities, or mathematics in content, then they might be accepted toward TESC or Excelsior's graduate liberal studies programs. Three of the courses offered by the CSU/Annenberg partnership have natural science prefixes. These might transfer more easily to Amberton's professional studies graduate program, but Amberton does not participate in financial aid programs.

 

I can do the homework myself. Thanks for pointing in the right direction. Nice to know of another very useful option in my "outside educational consultant" role.