When U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings suggested a year ago that American colleges and universities consider using standardized tests to measure performance, the outrage in academia was loud and swift. Critics worry that No Child Left Behind type accountability measures are being unleashed on college campuses. But now some influential college leaders seem to have had a change of heart
The term elearning (aka e-learning, eLearning, and variations) is commonly used to denote the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in delivering learning or learner support. This can apply to all sorts of educational activity, from indidual self-directed learning through to the implementation by educational institutions of complex, comprehensive, highly structured packages designed to deliver instructional commodities.
Summer is winding down and it’s time to head back to school. This list comprises everything from financial aid to local guides, social networking, web-based applications and much more for the student with no time to waste in getting the most out of their education.
I have been in college almost three years now and have been using many different Web tools that saved me time, helped me learn more and, most importantly, did not cost a penny. Here are 10 tools that I recommend for every college student:
ON the very first weekend of her freshman year at Lake Forest College, in the tony Chicago suburb of the same name, the usually sunny Mary Volk was miserable. She hated her classes. She wasn’t clicking with her three “weird” roommates. So she got on an Amtrak train for home, Pittsburgh. Clad in her favorite shirt, she sat resolutely in the corner by herself, crying, reading short stories by Dave Eggers (raised in Lake Forest, but that’s coincidental) and calling old friends from her cellphone.
The college dorm is a pretty intimidating setup, when you think about it. You're sharing a house with a few hundred of your peers. You know that at least some of them are destined to be your friends. These future allies are rattling around out there somewhere in this gigantic building. But how will they find you? How will they know that you're you, fascinating and smart and ready to bond?
Writing papers, giving research talks, and writing research proposals are key skills, but they aren't easy. We try to identify some things which we have found helpful, in the hope that they may be useful to you.
As part of Facebook Week here on Read/WriteWeb, I am going to be taking a look at the top applications on the Facebook platform. With nearly 1800 apps, the platform has been a runaway success for Facebook, and the most popular ten applications reach over 46 million users. I'm going to be breaking those 1800 apps down to the top 50 across 5 categories (10 in each). This is a completely subjective..
There are a lot of things you can do to help make research papers work for you — and get a decent grade in the process...
Eager to forge stronger connections with prospective students and parents, MIT and other universities in the last two years have been starting blogs and recruiting undergraduate bloggers. Blogging has become one of the hottest trends in college admissions.
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When U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings suggested a year ago that American colleges and universities consider using standardized tests to measure performance, the outrage in academia was loud and swift. Critics worry that No Child Left Behind type accountability measures are being unleashed on college campuses. But now some influential college leaders seem to have had a change of heart
The term elearning (aka e-learning, eLearning, and variations) is commonly used to denote the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in delivering learning or learner support. This can apply to all sorts of educational activity, from indidual self-directed learning through to the implementation by educational institutions of complex, comprehensive, highly structured packages designed to deliver instructional commodities.
I have been in college almost three years now and have been using many different Web tools that saved me time, helped me learn more and, most importantly, did not cost a penny. Here are 10 tools that I recommend for every college student:
ON the very first weekend of her freshman year at Lake Forest College, in the tony Chicago suburb of the same name, the usually sunny Mary Volk was miserable. She hated her classes. She wasn’t clicking with her three “weird” roommates. So she got on an Amtrak train for home, Pittsburgh. Clad in her favorite shirt, she sat resolutely in the corner by herself, crying, reading short stories by Dave Eggers (raised in Lake Forest, but that’s coincidental) and calling old friends from her cellphone.
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