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Projects By Students For Students Over 8,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a Think Quest Competition. Online Education Degrees – Accredited On-Campus & Online Schools claims to be "The Most Trusted Source of Accredited Online Colleges and Universities Available!"
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Open
University Britain's largest teaching
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Virtual College at New
York University's School of Continuing Education The Spectrum Virtual University provides awesome totally FREE online classes. UW Extension has general distance learning info. and specifics about UW offerings. Addison Wesley Longman online has complete programs and materials for primary and secondary school students and teachers. Coast Telecourses "produces award-winning video-based college courses and distributes them throughout the world." Colorado State Univ. of Graduate School of Business "has offered a campus-free MBA program for two decades." Out of New York Connected, in the past eleven years has offered more than 300 graduate and undergraduate classes entirely via computer conferencing. At this George Washington University site "two new electronically assisted graduate programs, one in public health and one in engineering management" have been launched. Graduate School of Education & Human Development The George Washington University "one of the oldest graduate schools of education in the country, offers a residency-free master of arts degree in education and human development with a concentration in educational technology and leadership through combined electronic and video platforms." It has also "taken it's doctorate of education in executive leadership-one of the oldest such academic leadership programs in the United States- into Cyberspace. One weekend each month, learners converge on the Northern Virginia campus for live insturction and mentoring." Pepperdine Univ. "uses a combined face-to-face and Internet-assisted distance-learning option to educate adult learners inits doctoral program in educational technology. Remote learning teams use e-mail, newsgroups and multi-user environments like MUDs and MOOs to address issues raised in madatory face-to-face seminars. The seminars are held on weekends there. |
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Canadian Distance Education
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Online Colleges and E-Learning Excellence is "a student's guide to
online education." Lifelong Learning Home Page; Adult Education & Distance Learner's Resource Center Brandon Hall has a comprehensive Free Resources page regarding E-Learning systems. Public Health Online has created a guide which not only ranks the best online master's programs in public health, but also provides helpful information about program-specific accreditation and scholarships. |
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How
Shopping Can Pay for College The U.S. Department of Education FREE Application for Federal Student Aid Web Site FinAID can search a College Financial Aid database of 180,000+ scholarships & Lists of lenders; and "provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid." College for Texans - operated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, this site has financial aid information for Texas residents Wired Scholar - operated by Sallie Mae, the nation's leading provider of education funding, this site has a wealth of information on how to pay for college. |
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Princeton Review offers test-preparation products and also has information on how to find college scholarships.
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EduPoint.com has assembled an online database
of over 1.5 million continuing education courses,
certificates, degrees, and training programs. Users can
sort their searches by both subject keywords and physical
geography. There may be no quicker way to locate, say, a
PhotoShop class in Redmond, WA. IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line is your direct link to nearly 7,000 colleges and universities in the United States. The Education Department's: State Map has links to education web pages across the U.S. |
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The U.S. Dept. of Education - click on
"Financial Aid" Online College Board the web's MOST comprehensive source of info. about transitioning from High School to College. |
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Searching for a College
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50 states.com /
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Community College Web U.S. Community Colleges, by State Compare Reviews for Online MBA Programs |
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Accredited Schools Online
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The Ultimate Guide to Trade and Vocational Schools and an excellent
page on
funding, a
complete guide for online colleges. Go College "helps search for colleges based on location, the type of institution (such as two-year vs. four-year) and academic interests. Most intriguing is a section on campus crime statistics." College Is Possible gives answers concerning "common questions about scholarships, the SAT and ACT, and other aspects of the higher education maze, plus lots of links to other college sites." UC Berkeley's: Finding College and University Information is an excellent college finder links page. U-WIRE, "a news service for college newspapers, provides stories about college life and issues on campuses." Public Health Degrees is another site to check out. |
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Totally Free (and Complete) Online College Courses
MIT Open Course Ware is a free, open, publication of MIT Course Materials.
Transferring
University Transfer Guides (Texas) Testing Graduate School First Stop: Crush The GRE |
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Princeton Review The TOEFL Study Guide How to Study for the GMAT |
Emode
is a fun personality testing site. TestPrep.com "analyzes math and verbal skills on a real SAT." College PowerPrep "is one of the most complete online SAT guides." |
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How to Study for the GRE: Example Questions, Resources, and Study Hacks Kaplan Educational Centers, "one of the largest test prep chains in the country lets you download free software for the GRE, CMAT, LSAT, MCAT, and SAT that will analyze your performances, on sample tests, for pacing, guessing, answer changing, and answer elimination strategies. You'll also find math, logic, and vocabulary quizzes as well as a list of the 100 most common SAT words, test dates, and sample questions for various tests. In addition to the specialized test information, the site includes sections on financial aid, relaxation techniques, how to choose the school that's right for you, tips on finding and getting the perfect job, and fun tests (including Mensa brain exercises, math and logic games, fat self-assessment, a political I.Q. test, name that flag, and personality tests)." |
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Books
THOMSON Peterson's "is a provider of learning books and online resources focusing on the educational-search, test-preparation and financial-aid markets. Click on "financial aid."" |
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