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How to succeed as an online college student?

Post author:Cultus
Post published:22 July, 2015
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Everyone always talks about the way that online education is changing the way that people learn, but you—the student—need to develop a unique set of skills in order to make the courses you do take online worthwhile. The technology, the setting and amount of effort you have to put in to succeed really are different when your course is taking place primarily in a virtual classroom. Some of these might seem obvious, but these tips might just save you this semester.

Choose the right program.

This can be hard to do ahead of time, but with a little research you can find out what type of career you really want and what educational path you need to take to get there. It’s discouraging and stressful to try and succeed in a bunch of classes that you aren’t well-suited for. Find a degree program that will give you the career options, earnings potential and life satisfaction that you know you want. Planning is the path to happiness.
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Life changing technology in the next 5 years

Post author:Cultus
Post published:20 July, 2015
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Will we be teleported, read other people’s minds, implant a chip instead or reading or something else in the next 5 years? The IBM annual tech predictions, suggests radical changes…

E-books offer innovative online reading

Post author:Cultus
Post published:20 July, 2014
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Today, uncountable students are turning toward e-books to make their reading process innovative. This is why the demand for electronic books is continually rising from the side of the students. We all know that an e-book is a book in electronic format which runs on different portable devices. It is easily downloaded from the Internet to a PC, notebook, tablet, smart phone or any other portable device. Once you download it, then you can read a number of interesting books on the screen of your portable device. It also carries a page number, table, graphs, and images, just like a paper book. However, if you are also wondering to switch your way of reading from paper books to electronic books then you’re taking a smart decision. (more…)

Tablets or smartphones in education?

Post author:Cultus
Post published:20 May, 2014
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There are a plethora of reasons why tablets are preferred over Smartphone, cost-benefits, better engagements and social networking possibilities and economy being some of them. Besides, it would to be earthy possible to type a 10-page thesis on smartphone, but could be easily done in a tablet without much fuss. This paper would lay bare some of the other reasons why students and educators nowadays prefer tablets as a better option when compared to Smartphones in the domain of education.
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May Internet addicts lose their minds?

Post author:Cultus
Post published:14 December, 2013
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How many hours a day do you spend on the Internet? Do you use the Internet every day? Do you feel "out of it" if you can't use a computer…

Libraries of the future

Post author:Cultus
Post published:12 February, 2013
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Will libraries become increasingly virtual and the librarians becoming knowledge navigators? Will libraries disappear as the world goes Wi-Fi or will Google become the future library? Will place remain central, as libraries become…