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Student loan companies hit hard by recent legislative changes and credit market conditions are starting to rate colleges, majors, and determining which programs are a safe investment
Although moving slowly through Congress, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008 offers across-the-board increases in funding available to students through various federal programs.
Good site on Universal Design for learning. Teaching Every Student. Good links.
Discussion of the 2007 ECAR study of undergraduate technology use in and out of classes
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[...] my programming endeavors have remained limited to writing few lines
of C/C++ , or Java. For last few days, I've been googling, and trying to read
how to join an existing Open Source project.
When I was in college most of the tools in this round up didn't exist. It was truly the dark ages of education! Well, okay, it was a just a few years ago, but just in this decade, and especially in the last few years, a handful of tools to make school life easier have appeared. What follows is the set of web tools I would put in my backpack were I headed back to school tomorrow.