Credit for Prior Learning Pathways
Partnerships designed for your success.
Academic Partners
Our main goal is to make high-quality, online education both affordable and accessible. Our academic partnerships support this goal by creating credit transfer pathways for you.
Direct Partnership Pathways

Teaching Channel
Teaching Channel with Learners Edge provides versatile and effective continuing education graduate credit courses for teachers. Through our partnership, select ACE as your transcribing institution when you enroll in a Teaching Channel course or transfer up to 9 Teaching Channel courses into a variety of programs at ACE.
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iTeach®
Through ACE’s partnership with iteach®, you can transfer up to 12 credits into a variety of ACE’s master’s and doctoral degree programs.
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LETRS
Through ACE’s partnership with Lexia, you can earn graduate credit for LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) and can transfer up to 12 graduate credits to select ACE programs or request a transcript for completed LETRS® coursework.
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Lexia Aspire™ Professional Learning
Aspire’s partnership with American College of Education means you can turn the Aspire courses you’ve completed into academic credits. You can also apply them directly to one of our fully online master’s degrees.
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Association of School Business Officials International
EDmarket
Learning Care Group
MedCerts
National Institute for STEM Education
National Virtual Teacher Association
Outlier
Zschool
Undergraduate Course Providers

Quality Matters
Individuals who complete QM’s Teaching Online Certificate can receive three (3) graduate credits towards an M.Ed. in Educational Technology at ACE.
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Straighterline
Through ACE’s partnership with Straighterline, you can complete general education credits that transfer into ACE’s bachelor completion programs and ACE’s nursing programs.
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Study.com
Through ACE’s partnership with Study.com, you can complete general education credits that transfer into ACE’s bachelor completion programs and ACE’s nursing programs.
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Sophia Learning
Sophia Learning’s partnership with ACE means you can transfer the undergraduate courses you’ve completed into one of our fully online bachelor’s degree completion programs.

Total Testing Education
Complete 60 transfer credits in Total Testing Education courses that align with ACE’s degree requirements and transfer your credits to ACE to continue your degree.
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