21Jan 2018 by adminula

The 100 Most Affordable Public and Private Nonprofit Colleges with Online Bachelor’s Degrees – 2018

Education
This is another installment in our college information series. The following data tables show the 50 most affordable (by net price) public American colleges offering online bachelor's degrees, and similarly for the 50 most affordable private, nonprofit colleges -- for a total of 100 colleges. Data used here comes from both the U.S. Department of Education’s “IPEDS Datacenter” and its NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) database (Academic Year 2016-17). The information is offered as is, and we utilized NCES college data as follows: Pull data for any college/ university that is listed in NCES as offering distance programs at the bachelor's level. Remove institutions without regional accreditation. Remove institutions without net price info. Sort by increasing net price (average yearly cost for tuition, fees, books, room and board, etc.,…
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13Feb 2017 by adminula

OpenCulture’s Huge List of Links to Over 1200 Free Online Courses

Education
OpenCulture is a great collection of links to resources about culture and learning. If you're looking for online courses offered by top universities worldwide, check out their 1200 Free Online Courses list. The collection of links represents over 30,000 hours of audio and video lessons. Even at 10 hours per day, it'd take you over eight years to get through it all. Plus there are other lists of freebies -- MOOCs, movies, audio books, ebooks, K-12 education and more.
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13Feb 2017 by adminula

Top 50 Highest-Graduating Bachelor’s Colleges – Data Table

Education
This list kicks off a new series for the Hacking Knowledge site. We'll be regularly publishing a combination of college review lists and data tables for a variety of rankings. In this article, we present a data table of the top 50 bachelor's colleges in terms of graduation rate. The data comes from the U.S. Department of Education's "IPEDS Datacenter," for the AY (Academic Year) 2015-16. [caption id="attachment_269" align="alignnone" width="640"] source: unsplash[/caption] Because this is a data table and not a full college review rankings list, we're presenting the bachelor's graduation rate information, plus additional data points, without verification of a college's continued operations, as retrieved from the IPEDS Datacenter database. The information presented below includes: College/ university name (with clickable hyperlink to their official Web site) Location of main…
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13Feb 2017 by adminula

How to Write Articles, Reports and Other Long-Form Content Using the Law of Least Effort

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The Writing Problem If your work time is limited, the Web can be a dangerous place for your schedule. Doing research online means navigating around "rabbit holes" of interest. Before you know it, you somehow ended up on Facebook, commented on a dozen friends' posts, debated with an Internet "troll," and watched a few cute videos of babies playing with iguanas. But what about your research? Oh yeah, that. [caption id="attachment_235" align="alignnone" width="640"] source: unsplash[/caption] Obviously, you need to prioritize, and you probably already know that. But why do some projects slip through the cracks? From my years of writing experience, I'd have to say that it comes down to early planning... or not. Essentially, procrastination can ruin your later efforts. The sooner you plan out your work efforts, the…
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