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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/2012 08:36 AM, John Pilman
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jay
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<div> First is Cousera offering any degrees or continuing
education credit; certificates of completion do not
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<div>This looks to me to be nothing more than a attempt to gain
some registration fees that they do not deserve along with a
paranoid delusion that the state can have some control over
course content.</div>
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<div>Aside from that, certificates of completion do count for
continuing education credit required for professional
registration by most states.</div>
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<div>...John</div>
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The courses I looked at did not state they gave CEU credit so
whether the certificates are acceptable depends on the licensing
bodies. In some fields the licensing bodies only count credits from
approved providers. This is more of an accreditation issue than a
comment on the quality of the courses. From the little I have taken
from Coursera I do not think the issue is content but
accreditation/registration with the various bodies.<br>
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Jay Lozier
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a></pre>
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