Many diploma mills give out worthless degrees based on so-called "life experience." These fake degrees won't get you anywhere in the workplace. However, there is a legitimate way to earn credit for your life experience. First, you'll need to enroll in a regionally accredited school. Then, you'll need to prove your life experience by creating a portfolio, taking an exam, or writing a paper.

Susan Smith Nash shows how a legitimate life experience program works over on her eLearners blog:

"You must sign up for the course in how to prepare a portfolio. It's a one credit-hour course, so it is not prohibitively expensive, but it is very useful because you learn how to look for courses in the catalogue that correspond with the life experience that you have. Then, you create a presentation that documents how and where the materials correspond with the course content. You must also demonstrate knowledge, which could be through a certificate that you earned in a workshop, or by writing a paper, or creating a project."

Check out the full post to learn how legitimate life experience credit can be earned.