You can validate your learning experience at Free-Ed.Net by maintaining  a learning journal. Everything you study, everything you learn, and how you feel about it should be carefully documented in your learning journal. It is tangible evidence of what you've accomplished and it can be a priceless reference work for future studies.

Learning at Free-Ed.Net is a dynamic, interactive process. It isn't a linear, straight-through, process when you can simply check off a list of course completions, from the most elementary to the most advanced. Rather, you get a little here and you pick up a little more over there. You undergo an exciting breakthrough in understanding one day, then fall into a black hole of ignorance the next. Sometimes you know exactly what you are doing and where you are going. Other times, you are lost and confused. But there is always Free-Ed.Net and the vast content of the Internet to provide the answers or at least the means to your discovery of the answers. Everyone needs some ways to keep track of these learning experiences, make some sense of it all, and maintain their sanity.

On the most superficial level, a learning journal is an account of your personal journey through a program of study.  Keep all your study notes, rough drafts for reports and essays, and any other relevant lists and comments. When you begin to learn--really learn--at Free-Ed.Net, you will have questions and ideas of your own. Jot them down in your learning journal. Don't let anything pass. Make notes on all of it.

"This is my Free-Ed.Net learning journal. It shows exactly what I've learned and how I've grown through my learning experience. It isn't very big, but it holds a big piece of me, my life, and my future."