Last year student debt exceeded the $1 trillion mark, surpassing credit card debt. On average, a student graduates with over $25,000 in debt and 17.3% are expected to default on their federal loans. The general public has been clamoring for a solution to the student debt problem and rightfully so. President Obama’s 2014 Budget proposal ...
Our high school days put us in the mentality that to take summer classes is punishment for students who can’t manage to keep up during the school year. Now that you’re in college it’s time to rearrange that mentality and start to appreciate them for what they really are: cheaper, easier classes. You may think your ...
We’ve all got time before graduation, but as a Senior, it’s coming soon. Junior’s, it’s creeping up on you. Sophomores, it’s way on the horizon. Freshmen, haha, you’re just a bunch of Freshmen. But for some of us, it’s a good idea to put together a basic checklist of all the things one should have when ...
Google founders, Stanford professors and MIT scientists all seem to agree: cyber classrooms are the next big thing in education. This year, the most of the buzz around online education may have gone to MIT’s MITx and Stanford supported Coursera, but the actual scope of online learning is much larger. Hundreds of brick and mortar ...
As we briefly discussed in our comparison of the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire last month, the world of textbook publication is undergoing a dramatic change with the rise of eReaders. But now, the progression from textbook to eBook may be accelerating quite a bit after Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s pledge to do away with ...
Twitter has been around since 2006, and it is still growing fast while easily becoming one of the most popular social networks on the web. Unfortunately, a lot of people still think of twitter as just a place full of boring people telling the world about every single aspect of their life; however, Twitter is so much more ...
Formerly known as Coursekit, Lore is an online educational tool meant for the connection of students and instructors in one well designed and easy to use community. Lore was launched in November 2011, and is already used for courses in over 600 universities, making it a quickly growing competitor to the unfortunately popular Blackboard. The unique aspect about ...
The pressure to find a job or internship in this market is overwhelming students across the nation. How are some of your friends finding such useful websites? Where are they getting the right resume help, and how are they finding these random applications? Some of your friends probably had their jobs handed to them from ...
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