Are there CLEPs DANTES Straiterline etc., for UK and/or Canada?

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  1. housecat

    housecat Member

    Are there CLEPs DANTES Straiterline etc., for UK and/or Canada?

    Also what do we collectively call these exams and institutions which offer these educational services that are worth college/university credits?

    I'm still kind of new to the game, so I need to know :D
     
    housecat, May 12, 2024
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  2. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Informally, usually "alt-credit", but there's no official word AFAIK.
     
    SteveFoerster, May 12, 2024
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  3. housecat

    housecat Member

    Ahhhhh okay. Yeah it's quite a foreign concept for me until I started hitting up this and the sister forum.
     
    housecat, May 12, 2024
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  4. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    We used to call CLEP, DSST, and other exams CBEs (credit-by-exam) because that's what colleges would call them. Now, the acronym is associated with competency-based education. Michigan Tech calls them non-collegiate sources of credit. There was a now defunct Alternative Credit Project via ACE that included courses from Straighterline and the like.

    The term I hate that is used by Liberty and Purdue Global is "life experience credit." Life experience degrees used to be synonymous with diploma mills.
     
    sanantone, May 13, 2024
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  5. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Agreed. It's also needlessly easily confused with credit by portfolio, an entirely different process.
     
    SteveFoerster, May 13, 2024
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  6. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    course providers, non-collegiate course providers, non-collegiate credit-recommended (or credit-granting, or credit) course providers
     
    Jonathan Whatley, May 14, 2024
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  7. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    One reason I like "alt-credit" is that if there are going to be 94 terms for the same thing, one may as well use the shortest. ;)
     
    SteveFoerster, May 14, 2024
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