Homeschooling College, Distance Education, Life-Time Learning Credit and Non-Traditional College

If you like homeschooling, you might love homeschooling college. Check into non-traditional methods for reducing college costs and graduating early. Look into ways students have received college credit for life experience such as extensive unit studies, portfolio evaluations, internships, travel, and ministry work. For information on credit for prior learning and life experience credit, check out http://www.nationalponsi.org/ and http://www.collegeispossible.org/ . Teaching Home magazine has an excellent article on homeschooling college, at http://www.theteachinghome.com/newsletters/vol_2-no_83.cfm .
Many homeschoolers use the portfolio assessment method to evaluate their youngsters; did you know that you can also receive college credit through the same method? Read Earn College Credit for What You Know, by Lois Lamdin, to find out more. Get it from The Council for Adult & Experiential Learning, or through the inter-library loan program at your local library.
Read more about the issues surrounding Christians in college, and the college at home option, at http://www.patriarch.com/college@home.html . Need to see more proof about the decadent modern college culture? Check out examples at http://www.collegeprowler.com/about_the_guides.asp
Read Ben Kaplan's book, How To go to College Almost For Free (Stratford Publishing: 2002) and books by John Bear such as College Degrees by Mail and Modem.
Would you like to earn your degree in half the time, and for less money? What about receiving college credit through internship experience, life experience, and independent study? Accelerated Distance Learning: The New Way to Earn Your College Degree in the Twenty-First Century, by Brad Voeller, shows you how to accelerate your education, by maximizing your multisensory learning pathways (learning styles), memory, reading speed and comprehension. Voeller earned a four-year, fully accredited college degree in less than six months, and for less than $5000! If you've homeschooled high school, you can homeschool college.
"Some students have completed their entire degree by just taking three GRE exams and five general CLEP exams. Using this method, you could theoretically complete an entire bachelor's degree within a few days!"--Brad Voeller
Keep track of your educational activities. Then use portfolio assessment to qualify for college credit. Thomas Edison State College , Thomas Edison College Examination Program TECEP, 609-633-2844, and Charter Oak State College sell handbooks and offer information on building portfolios. Check with the colleges that you are interested in. Ask if they will accept portfolio credit, or transfer credit earned through portfolio assessment. Learn more about documenting learning through portfolio assessment.
Read Voeller's book, to find out more. Voeller also offers special reports, including Accelerated Distance Learning for Home-School Students, and Accelerated Distance Learning for Christian Students. http://www.globallearningstrategies.org/.
College Credit By Examination
Looking for a way out of the College Agenda? Take a test and receive college credit. Save money on college through CLEP, GRE, DANTES, and Advanced Placement (AP) testing. Best of all, learn the information any way you want—you pick the materials and texts. (This is a good way to get a more balanced education, free from political correctness, pagan religious rites and liberal bias.) If you can’t afford textbooks, try http://www.freeuniv.com/index.html .
Check out these programs and books (Order from web site sources or through inter-library loan) that were created to help you earn credit for what you already know:
The College Credit Recommendation Service, www.acenet.edu/clll/corporate/index.cfm ), evaluated and recommended college credit for more than 9,000 courses, examinations, and certifications administered through business, labor, government, associations, and other organizations.
The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, http://www.cael.org/, publishes Earn College Credit for What You Know, a book for adult learners interested in acquiring credit for prior learning. The Pocket Guide to College Credits and Degrees includes information on applying your learning experiences in the real world to a college degree.
Try these free study resources and guides, if you're interested in obtaining college credit by examination. If you homeschool high school, take some practice tests. You may be surprised at how well you can do!
http://www.4tests.com/exams/exams.asp?cid=2
http://www.bain4weeks.com/
Here are some study materials that are not free, but still considerably cheaper than most college courses:
http://www.instantcert.com/landing2.html
http://www.istudysmart.com/ (also offers a free distance learning guide)
Contact Excelsior College, http://www.excelsior.edu/ for a list of textbooks and test descriptions for college credit tests and a practice sheet with sample questions.
For (Graduate Record Exam (GRE) information, contact http://www.gre.org/ .
Find out about DANTES Subject Standardized Tests (DSSRs), http://www.getcollegecredit.com/
Ohio University, Office of Independent Study, http://www.ohiou.edu/lifelong .
Learn about AP test preparation at http://www.collegeboard.org/ap . Study for AP tests through online academies such as Apex Learning, http://www.apexlearning.com/ , and http://www.pahomeschoolers.com/
Find additional information on credit by examination and distance education from BA in 4 Weeks, DegreeInfo.com , Jonnie's Distance Learning Page and Distance Learning Undergraduate Business Degrees.
Get a free official downloadable CLEP guide from the College Board: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/clep/prep.html
More free CLEP, DANTES, and other credit by examination study guides, courtesy of The Air Force and Peterson's: http://www.petersons.com/airforce/books.asp?sponsor=8
Free on-line credit by examination test practice, for tests such as CLEP General Mathemactics, at http://www.4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=8
Check out information on CLEP guides, homeschooling and College at http://www.davidandlaurie.com/
Check out more college information and links at An Eagle's Nest Homeschool Links Page .