You can download this guide as a PDF, including all addendums from this LINK. This guide was prepared by CollegeForSoldiers.com, a sister site of BooksForSoldiers.com, a Red Grail Charity. The Order of the Red Grail is a tax exempt 501(c)(3), IRS recognized charity. Introduction Getting a college education shouldn’t be as problematic as it has [...]

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A Professional certification in the Computer technology field is a designation earned by a person to assure that he/she is qualified to perform a job or task. Certifications, generally, need to be renewed periodically, or may be valid for a specific period of time (e.g. the life-time of the product upon which the individual is [...]

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Regional accreditation is a term used in the United States to refer to the process by which one of several accrediting bodies, each serving one of six defined geographic areas of the country, accredits schools, colleges, and universities. Each regional accreditor encompasses the vast majority of public and nonprofit private educational institutions in the region [...]

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A proctor is an individual who agrees to receive the tests from the student’s instructor, administer them in an academically approved environment and return them to the instructor. The proctor must verify that the student completed the test according to the specific directions of the instructor. Proctors are widely used in distance learning and all [...]

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Prior Learning Assessment is the process of identifying, assessing and recognizing skills, knowledge, or competencies that have been acquired through work experience, unrecognized training, independent study, volunteer activities, and hobbies. The term does not refer to a commercial program or agency, but to any type of activity with informal educational potential, usually for adult learners. [...]

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There are many ways to earn college level credit and one method is through placement testing. If you have been stationed in Germany and picked up German on your own, you may be able to earn college credit for German through placement testing. All of our recommended colleges for deployed troops offer the ability to [...]

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If you are like most people, you have college credit in multiple colleges. You may have taken a class here and a class there. You may have taken a variety of health care and IT certification courses and tests. You might also have a bunch of CLEP and DANTES tests that you have taken. When [...]

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OpenCourseWare, or OCW, is a term applied to course materials created by universities and shared freely with the world via the internet. The OCW movement began at MIT with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare in October 2002. Since then, a number of universities have created OCW projects, some of which have been funded by the [...]

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When we set out to find the best colleges for troops, in terms of flexibility, course credit options and most importantly, regionally accredited, there are three great choices and all are affordable. Each college listed below gives credit via portfolio assessment, CLEP, DANTES and other college placement tests, no residency requirements and are great for [...]

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