Will FrEd Certify Me?
While FrEd's major purpose is to promote a more efficient, higher quality education, it will be able to provide certification without standardized testing because it will be able to teach individuals in any part of the world their own curriculum for their own standardized testing systems which already exist. FrEd's power lies in its innovative content engine based on feedback and learning orientation tests. The content it serves is up to the learner.
For example: an individual in BC needs to complete certain courses to be able to graduate, and it is hoped that upon finished development circa stage four, a FrEd course will be considered valid in BC so long as a provincial exam is completed as well. As a result, since the FrEd courses follow BC curriculum, and since FrEd Study Hall will have an area dedicated to aiding students prepare for Provincial Exams.
Similarly for other parts of the world, FrEd will work with governments to become an accepted provider of education such that individuals can take courses for free online. FrEd will also work towards whatever examination requirements that government has.
For example: an individual in BC needs to complete certain courses to be able to graduate, and it is hoped that upon finished development circa stage four, a FrEd course will be considered valid in BC so long as a provincial exam is completed as well. As a result, since the FrEd courses follow BC curriculum, and since FrEd Study Hall will have an area dedicated to aiding students prepare for Provincial Exams.
Similarly for other parts of the world, FrEd will work with governments to become an accepted provider of education such that individuals can take courses for free online. FrEd will also work towards whatever examination requirements that government has.
The FrEd Difference
Since many different countries will eventually be supported by FrEd and student results will be entered into a database, there is an opportunity for standardization as the best, most effective curricula will reveal themselves, and based on census statistics gathered, it may even be possible to interpret the most effective standardized testing (presumably the most effective at testing a holistic, generalized, neutral, K-12 education). While census data is not yet available to my knowledge, it may be in future. For the present, FrEd's immediate goal in this area is still to provide all of the academic support required to challenge any exam required to gain one's Secondary School/High School Equivalency.
In fact, FrEd may be able to convince some smaller governments to accept a more standardized curriculum as equivalent to their state/regional curriculum and make available to that province/state/government the standard exam such that in that region, under its own control, its citizens can use FrEd for training and then take examinations in their local district. The certification will then be given by that region, not by FrEd. Thus while FrEd facilitates certification, it will not itself issue certificates other than the grades obtained by students and only then according to its privacy agreement.
In fact, FrEd may be able to convince some smaller governments to accept a more standardized curriculum as equivalent to their state/regional curriculum and make available to that province/state/government the standard exam such that in that region, under its own control, its citizens can use FrEd for training and then take examinations in their local district. The certification will then be given by that region, not by FrEd. Thus while FrEd facilitates certification, it will not itself issue certificates other than the grades obtained by students and only then according to its privacy agreement.
