(12-23-2023, 05:09 AM)kylan11 Wrote: Real quick, how does that work? You enroll, wait for the exam option to pop up, take it and 2 hours later you now have an MBA + Masters? Full diploma mill style?
Enroll, wait 1-3 months, pay for exam option, wait another 1-3 months to take exam, wait another 2-6 weeks for final exam grades to get inputted into your gradebook (which is odd in and of itself, it means they MUST be checking it over by hand despite using Moodle), wait another 2-6 months to get diploma. As for the exam, the only way you could pass it without having actually read the materials is by "cheating".
Passing a class solely by an exam option doesn't make something a diploma mill - as others have said many times, this was the historical standard for college for hundreds of years (going anywhere from 1-6 years without setting foot at the school, and then just taking a graduation exam) which is still essentially true at some institutions including at some accreditted and historically respected American and European schools. The "diploma mill" problem is really about the difficulty level of the test itself.


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