On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Lynda wrote:
I'd been talking to someone else about USENIX's CEU system, which I'd
recommended as a model, and there seems to be a dearth of information about
it on their site. There's this on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_education_unit
I couldn't find anything on the usenix web site about who the agency was for
USENIX, and it doesn't appear on my certificates, either. Any information is
good.
I think that USENIX is the agency issuing the CEU. Since there's no
certification requirement in the computer science field, there's nobody in
any position to provide arreditation of this.
All in all, CEUs are a way of 'keeping score' on training that really only
tells you that a person signed up and paid for something. You don't know
if they even attended the class that they got the CEU for.
As I see it CEUs are useful if you have a certification that requires them
(that you care enough about to maintain), or if your management cares
about CEUs.
Otherwise, you are better off just listing the classes you have attended.
David Lang
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