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Originally Posted by sgloer
The military is an excellent idea... Besides having active duty customers post our flyer at their education center, I'm not sure what we can do.
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Originally Posted by sgloer
I believe the Air Force and Navy already offer their own free courses for CLEP prep, so some of their education advisors seem reluctant to consider other prep services.
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The free services you mentioned for the USAF are Peterson AFB website which is mentioned on this forum quite a bit. It provides some GREAT practice tests.
The Base Library provides National Learning Center Guides to Dantes exams.. sometimes it has Schaum Outlines for CLEP courses. Sometimes you have great Video checkout systems for studying for courses.. but most of the base libraries have removed them from the shelves because the tapes wear out. My last base had Fantastic Cassette tape systems for most courses.. but the tapes were worn out before i was assigned there.
I took the liberty to talk to a education counselor about InstantCert the other day and I too found the reluctance to it from him automatically.. He told me that it was a Scheme to builk money out of people and you get better results by buying a book out of Borders. Luckily i am a Computer System Administrator for the AF and logged into a terminal at the desk I was sitting at and SHOWED him the flashcards. He was amazed and flabergasted, and started to asked alot of questions. I took him through some of the flashcard courses and then showed him this forum, he was amazed although he did not have much good to say about Excelsior College.
He had me show the site to the main education counselor and I got a small lecture about how it was a pay for service site and they could not recomend it to students. I asked the question about what was the difference between studying for CLEP with a brand new book from a private bookstore and this website with a small support forum, OR applying for Tuition Assistance for a maximum of 14 credit hours a quater (The Main college on base is quarter system school, the other two are Semester System but have very few courses available). and I got a counter that sounded like canned answer.
I think the education centers in the USAF are trained to push the CCAF with the standard education insitutions on that base. If you want to go beyond that, it has to be out of their playbook otherwise they faulter and try to disuade you from doing what they think you should do. My own Flight Commander is going through Grantham College online and he told me that the Education Center constantly tries to get him to withdraw from there.
In the end.. I got to leave a few flyers for Instacert and I noticed that one of them ended up on the Un-Official bulletin board from possible colleges outside of the area.. Its a start.
