Need help for degree plan in CS at TESC - newbie - how to earn credit for Coursera?

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Hi all,

first, I'm so glad I found this forum! You guys are a wealth of info!
I have a few questions that I hope you might help me answer:

I actually have a PhD in Mathematics from a good US college, but I want to look for a job in Computer Science. (I am stay-at-home-mom at the moment and my littlest is going to preschool.) I have taken some 20 Coursera courses since Feb 2014 and then started thinking that it would be good to actually get a degree in CS if say, I wanted to teach CS in a high school. My undergrad diploma is from Italy, so few of the courses would transfer, if any (we had 16 year-long courses to take in Math exclusively).

Here is what I have in mind to earn credits:

- I taught 7 different math college-level courses in the past 3 years, from the easiest course to Differential Equations (alas, not Linear Algebra, which I could do with eyes closed, but is a CS requirement and I don't know how to test out of it - which test do I take?). Total of 21 credits?

- I would do 5 Saylor courses: Business Law and Ethics, Principles of Management, Principles of Marketing, Business Statistics and Intro to CS (total of 15 credits, proctored in the library, $0, yeey!)

- I would take CLEP exams: Spanish, German (maybe French), Natural Sciences, History and Social Sciences; I can probably take other CLEP exams too if needed. (I chose these because of how many credits I could get by taking only one exam)

- I would do TEEX course on security for IT professionals (2 credits)

- TECEP for Saylor course on Computer Networking (3 credits)

For the rest:
I'm doing Coursera Specialization "Foundations of Teaching for Learning" - 8 6-week courses building up teaching portfolio, includes a capstone project (verified identity) - how would that translate to credits?

I'm doing Coursera Specialization "Mobile Cloud Computing with Android" - 3 10-week courses, includes a capstone project (verified identity)

(So, 8 subject electives would be 1. Mobile apps 2. Networking 3. Security)
I did also
4. Coursera Machine Learning course
5. Ruby on Rails, that is taught by Univ. of New Mexico professor based on his course there
6. Functional Programming with Scala, also on Coursera, also based on an actual course in Lausanne, Switzerland
7. I taught myself a lot of Web development stuff (JavaScript, PHP, HTML) and followed Udacity course on it
8. Long ago I took a database course and probably could pass an exam; same with Algorithms
I know Java, some C++, a lot of Python, enough to pass any courses based on just programming

So, for the subject courses I could just take an equivalence exam on much of this stuff, but don't know how this works actually. So here come my questions:

1. Can I transfer some of my graduate courses from the PhD program to fill up my remaining credits?
2. How do I demonstrate competency in the subject courses above and how much would that cost?
3. Anybody have experience with Coursera courses translating to TESC credits?
4. How about Data Structures and Linear Algebra requirements for the CS major? (I know this stuff already, but haven't found appropriate exams.)

I have about a year to complete this.

Many, many thanks for any help!