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Russell,

Sure it would have utility. This issue is whether you can create a good presentation. If you learned PowerPoint at New Horizons Computer Learning Center, ExecuTrain or from a class at a local community college, your skill in using the software is the most important thing.

I teach PowerPoint and web development at a regionally accredited universityand have created hundreds of presentations. When I started using PowerPoint, there were no classes available, so I had to teach myself. I took a two-day class on HTML, before there was Dreamweaver, FrontPage or GoLive. Did they have utility? You bet, I created many websites and my college's first online class that way.

You are fortunate to have had the opportunity to learn in a concentrated format. Your certificate is certainly recognizable. By the way did you take the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)exam for PowerPoint. With your background, you should be able to pass it with little problem and you would have another recognized certificate (and title).

Tony Pina
Faculty, Cal State U. San Bernardino
(my signature line is definately NOT a candidate for Degreeinfo's best)

 

I would just want to caution people though, if one puts too many doctorates in their signiture block then they could find themselves in grave danger of becoming so overwhelmingly powerful that body parts could explode.

 

Tony,

"When I started using PowerPoint, there were no classes available, so I had to teach myself."

so did you get portfolio credit for this effort...

 

Nope...already had my masters by then. But I did land a nice adjunct teaching job in addition to my existing full-time position. So I guess that I traded academic enrichment for filthy lucre

Tony
B.A. University of Wexford
M.A. Breyer State University
Ph.D. University de la Romande
D.D. Universal Life Church
(hee, hee, hee)

 

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Using this same logic, if one pursued an unaccredited degree, gained equivalent knowledge of an accredited program, but never intended to use the degree to pursue a position which required such, would the degree have utility? For example, a SCUPS doctorate to practice psychology in California.

Where can one get the MCP exam?

 

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Originally posted by Russell


Using this same logic, if one pursued an unaccredited degree, gained equivalent knowledge of an accredited program, but never intended to use the degree to pursue a position which required such, would the degree have utility? For example, a SCUPS doctorate to practice psychology in California.

Whether the degree would have utility is largely irrelevant, since, in your scenario, the degree would not be used to pursue a position that required a degree. However, if the knowledge gained in pursuit of the degree assisted the person in achieving her/his goals, then the knowledge certainly has utility.

If a friend of yours needed to be able to create PowerPoint presentations as a new requirement for the job and you tutored that person, would it have utility, even if the knowledge was gained outside of an RA higher ed institution? Of course.

Now if the ability to legally practice a profession, such as psychology, does not require an accredited degree, then it could be said that the learning that occured or the instruction provided by SCUPS (or CCU or ...) has utility if it provides the learner with the knowledge to do the job. In this case, the utility of the degree is not the issue.

Many jobs require an accredited degree as a prerequisite for certain positions. In this case, non-accredited degrees do not have much utility. In other cases, where RA or NA is not a prerequisite, any means of gaining the necessary knowledge and skills (accredited school, non-accredited school, on-the-job training, library research, private tutoring, apprenticeship, etc.) has utility.

Where can one get the MCP exam?

The relevant one for you would be the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification for PowerPoint.

Here are the exam competencies for PowerPoint XP (2002)
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/officespecialist/objectives/powerpoint2002.asp

Here they are for PowerPoint 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/officespecialist/objectives/PowerPoint2003ExamSkillStandards.asp

You can learn about the Microsoft Office Specialist program at this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/OfficeSpecialist/default.asp

Best wishes,

Tony Pina
Faculty, Cal State U. San Bernardino

 

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Thanks, Tony, for the MCP information. I wasn't aware this option was available.

Russell
PPC, 2002
MCP, May apply in 2006

 

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Russell,

I think that the propoer title for the Microsoft Office Specialist (PowerPoint) would be MOS, rather than MCP (if you plan on using that designation). I think that you have to take an additional exam for the MCP.

Tony

 

Thanks Han!