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
So much to read and ingest...so little time. We all have that problem don't we? In this busy life we have there just doesn't seem to be the time to fit everything in let alone the stuff we want to read. Readfa.st goes some way to alleviating that problem by providing a free platform for storing and reading all those online things you've previously put in a pile in the corner and it enabes you to read them at your leisure. Read more
It wasn't so long ago that parents only had one medium to use when teaching their children and keeping them entertained - pencils and paper. These days of course there are many different ways of interaction and we utilize anything we can to amuse and educate the younger ones. Tucoola is a totally safe and totally free children's skills enhancement game that monitors, assesses and enhances the development progress of children aged between 2 and 8 with fun games that are designed for each particular age. Read more
So much of a pilot's training these days is done through flight simulators. How will a novice pilot know how to react if something goes wrong than by putting them through the worst case scenario situation of a plane crash. Programr is virtually a flight simulator for computer programmers. It's the world's very first online learning social computer laboratory for the computer programmer. Read more
I have to say when I first looked through this app I was a little concerned that teachers could just pick from a set of pre-loaded comments to appraise the students in their care.I had a fleeting moment of forgetfulness I suppose because thinking back to my pre-computer schooldays things were pretty much the same. Well they were in the case of my math teacher who could have saved himself a lot of time by getting a couple of rubber stamps made containing the phrases, "is easily distracted" or "could do better."With practically every other activity you can think of now made easier ... Read more
Do you want to learn to play piano music? Check out OnlinePianist.com! Read more
Life on campus can often throw up any number of worrying issues for students. Add to that a feeling of isolation and the worry just intensifies so a site like spillnow.com is a worthy model for all students to get to know. Read more