Undergraduate

Accreditation of Certificated Practitioners 2

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This course enables The Open University to recognise and give you credit for specified practice-based qualifications that you already have. If you’re working in computing or ICT, you may have acquired qualifications from leading software or technology vendors like Microsoft or Cisco. Such vendors offer a portfolio of qualifications connected to a specific job function – for example Systems Administration, Systems Security, Network Engineer or Application Development – certifying that you have reached particular levels of knowledge and competence. As TM227 awards academic credit for qualifications you already have, there’s no additional study involved. However, you are expected to have successfully completed a related OU course.

Course facts

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This course is available for study in the countries shown. Fees and financial support may vary by country.

Entry

As well as specific vendor qualification(s) that you wish to claim OU credit for, you should have successfully completed the below before you register:

• Object-oriented programming with Java (M255) and Team working in distributed environments (M253) and Putting Java to work (M257)

Or

• Information and communication technologies: people and interactions (T209) (now discontinued)

Or

• Communication and information technologies (T215)

Or

• Team working in distributed environments (M253) and the discontinued courses M254 and M206

Or

• Team working in distributed environments (M253) and Putting Java to work (M257) and the discontinued course M206.

As an accreditation of your existing practice-based qualifications, TM227 does not have any study materials or tuition associated with it. Shortly after the start of the presentation, we’ll send you an assessment guide. This describes the documentation you’ll need to provide when submitting evidence of your vendor qualification(s). For most vendors, this is a transcript of the exams and other assessments you have passed.

However, before you register, you must check whether your own qualifications can be used to gain credit for TM227 (or its Level 1 equivalent, MT127). To see the current list of applicable vendor qualifications, visit the course website (you can also email from this page for further information).

If you have any doubt about the suitability of the course, please contact our Student Registration & Enquiry Service.

Teaching and assessment

Assessment

TM227 gives you credit for non-OU qualifications you already have. As such, it has no assignments to complete. However, in order to pass TM227, it’s necessary to have studied and passed one or more of the Open University’s related academic courses – exactly which course(s) depends on which award you’re studying towards. For example, you might be studying for a Foundation Degree in Computing and IT Practice. Each set of evidence is assessed on an individual basis.

Students also studied

Students who studied this course also studied at some time:

• Accreditation of Certificated Practitioners 1 (MT127)
• Ebusiness technologies: foundations and practice (T320)
• Communication and information technologies (T215)
• Technologies for digital media (T325)
• Keeping ahead in information and communication technologies (T324)

Future availability

You can submit evidence of your vendor qualifications twice a year, during periods that start in November and May.

Fees 2012

See fees and funding options for study from September 2012.

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Financial support

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