While I’m studying for my CLEP on Monday, my good, sweet friend agreed to do a guest post for Recommended Friday. Please welcome, Anna from Feminine Adventures!!!
My name is Anna and I’m honored to be guest posting today while Jessica finishes preparing for her first CLEP. My husband and I both earned our degrees through distance learning. It was a decision we have not regretted!
The ability to study when and where you choose is one of the many benefits of a distance education. A resource we found invaluable for “redeeming the time” was audio lectures.
Audio lectures allow you to study while cleaning, driving, exercising or crafting.
Our library carried dozens of college course lectures from the Teaching Company. We love these lectures. The goal of the Teaching Company is to find universally acclaimed professors and have them deliver university-level lectures straight to you and me.
It’s like getting to sit in on the greatest lectures from around the globe while doing dishes!
We used these lectures to prepare for numerous exams, ranging from the Biology CLEP to the Russian History Dantes. The only drawback is that some of the lectures (like those on biology) are not delivered from a distinctly Christian worldview.
My very favorite lectures are by Timothy Taylor on Economics, which we used to prepare for the Micro and Macro Economic CLEPs. I listened to these while still living at home with my family. The lectures were like a magnet. My siblings inched their way into the kitchen so they could listen too. Timothy Taylor even got an 8-year-old to beg to dry dishes, just so she could stay and listen to the history of economics with me. Impressive, huh?
Audio lectures aren’t just a wonderful resource for distance learning students though. They are for anyone who loves learning!