Good Morning, Are there any new options for graduate credit obtained through life experience? Thanks. Have a peaceful weekend. Hille ------------------
Two avenues: 1. MIGS, which I can't recommend. 2. An MPhil/PhD-by-publication/experience program, and I have no real squabbles with these--but you usually have to write an extensive culminating paper that explains, in effect, "Why do I deserve this degree?" Cheers, ------------------ Tom Head www.tomhead.net co-author, Bears' Guide to the Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning (Ten Speed Press) co-author, Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead (Osborne/McGraw-Hill)
independent study Graduate level credit for life experience sort of counters the goal of the "graduate" education to create new original research. However, sometimes, sort of in the bending-the-rules category, a program will allow an elective independent study course which applies current research to a real life experience. Rarely is it more than one course out of a graduate program. It makes more sense to look at current research in an area that you can use in your thesis/dissertation. Then each class can be a chapter in the final thesis. All the best!
