11-24-2020, 09:46 AM
XAMK is a university in Finland that offers a free program in video game design. The program is extremely cool and can result in up to 25 free ECTS credits. This is roughly equivalent to 12 credit hours in the American credit system. The credits are posted on an official university transcript.
https://www.xamk.fi/en/open-amk-courses/...-creation/
The new wrinkle is that the program now awards a professional certificate for various levels of achievement after one year. Here is an excerpt from an email that I received from the program:
"1) New! Professional Certificate (ProC) launched.
In principle, we will issue ProC professional certificate after you have finished your studies, or when your right of study (12 months) has come to an end. We will award these also to students who have been us since the beginning of the course. We will update the levels according to your ECTS credits progress and void the earlier level.
Levels of Professional Certificates:
Bronze
Completed a minimum of 15 but less than 20 ECTS
Silver
Completed a minimum of 20 but less than 25 ECTS
Gold
Completed the whole course, e.g. 25 ECTS at the moment"
One additional aspect of this program that I just noticed. At the bottom of the email, I noticed the following copyright line:
XAMK Open University and Cambridge Academy of Digital Games and Innovation
Sure enough, this is the Cambridge that everybody thinks about. So if you want just a touch of Cambridge on your resume, this is one way to get it.
https://www.xamk.fi/en/open-amk-courses/...-creation/
The new wrinkle is that the program now awards a professional certificate for various levels of achievement after one year. Here is an excerpt from an email that I received from the program:
"1) New! Professional Certificate (ProC) launched.
In principle, we will issue ProC professional certificate after you have finished your studies, or when your right of study (12 months) has come to an end. We will award these also to students who have been us since the beginning of the course. We will update the levels according to your ECTS credits progress and void the earlier level.
Levels of Professional Certificates:
Bronze
Completed a minimum of 15 but less than 20 ECTS
Silver
Completed a minimum of 20 but less than 25 ECTS
Gold
Completed the whole course, e.g. 25 ECTS at the moment"
One additional aspect of this program that I just noticed. At the bottom of the email, I noticed the following copyright line:
XAMK Open University and Cambridge Academy of Digital Games and Innovation
Sure enough, this is the Cambridge that everybody thinks about. So if you want just a touch of Cambridge on your resume, this is one way to get it.
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