In a certain month every year the newsagents around the world have been engulfed by students and parents (mostly parents, I might add) waiting for the latest issue of the guide to Universities and Colleges to ensure they collectively choose the most appropriate educational opportunity available. They would walk out of the shop with a thick book which was the equivalent of a small forest. These days, however, there are many online options too. Petap is an free education guide for accredited online and campus degrees, schools, colleges and universities across the USA and Canada. According to a recent ... Read more
The pressure is on for students more and more these days. Finding a job can be a daunting experience after university or college and the highest academic results are sometimes tantamount to bettering another opponent. It's vital to get the best scores for your work and research is one of the best ways of achieving great results. So when you are looking for research material it is important to find a reliable source. Professays is a very reliable and accurate research tool that can deliver essays, research papers, term papers and dissertations for all your scholarly needs. Read more
If you are planning on continuing your education next year then you are going to have to think about books. Text books. They can be pretty expensive, can't they? So a bit of pre-planning is required to get the books you need and still have enough to eat and pay the rent. SlugBooks could well be the answer to your problems. Find your textbooks now! This rather useful and intelligent education app offers you the chance to tell them which school and classes you are taking so they can not only tell you which books you are going to need ... Read more
Accuteach is the beginning of a new way of schooling developed by real classroom teachers from Atlanta, Georgia. It's an education and teaching app that is aimed at bringing teachers, students and parents into a much more collaborative environment than conventional teaching. Accuteach lets you upload and share lessons, blog, chat, create a calendar of events, share videos and connect with your whole school community. Read more
This is one of those apps where everybody is a winner. meetOOu (which is short for 'me to you') is a video chat marketplace where you can purchase online real-time video chats with experts on any number of subjects. Equally, if you have accurate and informative knowledge on a particular subject then you can sell your expertise in live video chat form to anyone who needs it. meetOOu is the world's first true video chat marketplace where users can buy video chat sessions with experts in a variety of subjects. Subjects can be pretty well anything you need to ... Read more
My word how school life has changed! At the risk of giving my age away I was at school in the days before even photocopiers were a widespread part of a teacher’s kit. I can still remember the smell of the duplicating ink on the History hand-outs. As for the excuses about why a particularly nasty piece of homework was missing well, leaving it on the bus was about as original as I got. It follows then that a site like Schoolrack would have seemed as far away as a manned expedition to Mars but educational software has now got one ... Read more
As if students don't have a hard enough life anyway there is always the added cost of textbooks and what to do with them when you don't need them anymore. Usually, it's just advertising at your college or university, but you won't get much for them as there are plenty of others selling theirs too. Or you buy and sell them through booksellers leaving you open to bad customer service and hard to read websites. Fairbooks is an education selling tool that buys and sells textbooks at a much better rate than it's competitors. Fairbooks makes textbook buyback work ... Read more
For people of a certain age who considered the whiteboard replacing the blackboard and chalk as a bit of a revolution in the classroom, look away now! Collaborize Classroom has taken student participation and homework to another level, and what’s more it’s free. Read more
Whether you are just trying to improve your spelling for personal or business reasons, homeschooling your child, or you're learning English as a second language, Spellzone might be worth a look. Read more
The developing world misses out on a lot of what the rest of us take for granted and high on the list of these imbalances must surely be higher education. Vittana is trying to put this right and although currently only a small drop in a large ocean looks to be setting an admirable example with its student loan model. Read more