6 Great Tech Tips To Beat College On A Budget

• There are some easy ways to get free textbooks, study more efficiently, and cut the time it takes to write a paper in half.

I’m entering my final year of university in a few weeks. For the past three years I’ve seen my peers use sloppy research methods, spend hours worrying over their unpreparedness for an exam, and shell out major cash for textbooks. College is supposed to be fun, not four years of stress.

Despite growing criticisms of the “value” of a degree, this generation has the best chance to make the most out of a course. Technology has enabled us to speed up just about every other industry and create the kind of efficiency man could only dream about two decades ago. So why not apply it to academic life?

There really is no need to spend hours holed up in the library to ace an exam. Check this out.

Test Your Hearing Age & Other Fun Science Videos With AsapSCIENCE

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YouTube and education goes well together with courses, lectures and experiments from the world’s finest educational establishments, but much of the time videos of kittens outdo solid informative efforts. It’s no secret that the best way to make people learn is to engage them with your subject, but this is easier said than done. That’s particularly true on the Internet, where everything is a distraction.

Striking the balance between education and entertainment (go on, use the word edutainment, I dare you) is difficult, but many have achieved it. AsapSCIENCE is another channel that fuses short bursts of truly interesting knowledge into light, hand-drawn videos that attract millions of views. Best of all you’re guaranteed to learn something, even if it’s the fact that you have the ears of a 70-year old rock star.

Use Your Expertise: Author Your Own Money Making Course Using Udemy

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In the age of the Internet, you can often surpass traditional and expensive college and technical courses and learn practically anything online. And if you have a particular expertise in a subject and want to teach others, there is a large variety of online resources you can use to make money by teaching others as well. Udemy is one such example of a popular online teaching and learning site that can be accessed online and from supported mobile devices.

Udemy has over 8,000 free and paid courses on a wide variety of subjects including technology, business, design, arts, photography, humanities, music, and game creation. The site includes a well designed step-by-step process for creating your own course, which you can publish to Udemy’s growing community of nearly 1 million students and about another million monthly site visitors. Creating a professional online course is similar to authoring a book, which once published, can possibly bring you residual income for years to come.

The Best 10 Google Docs Tips For Teachers As They Go Back To School

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Back-to-school time is underway, and I’m sure you teachers are already balancing your lives, your classroom, and your pesky administrations. What could make life just a little bit easier for you? Google Docs, my dear educator friend. Google Docs.

Below, we have ten awesome tips to help you out when handling your students and their parents. Some of them you may know, but others, you very well may not. Bear in mind that the only way this will work is if you are already integrating Google Docs into your classroom. Make sure you establish this before you get started! Also, if you are afraid of cloud computing – never fear. The tips below show the benefits of working on the cloud, and most of them outweigh anything negative.

4 Online Courses You Could Take Instead Of Going Back to School

Graduation is the most important part of any undergraduate’s academic career. I expect that in a couple of years, I’ll be standing outside my university wearing an absurd hat, looking like a slightly more rotund teacher from the Bash Street Kids, clutching a degree and ready to take big confident steps into the real world. Oh, and I would have also accumulated an eye-watering £50,000 worth of debt for the privilege. Ouch.

How To Select The Best Educational Apps As Kids Go Back To School

Kids are precocious and know their way around the app jungle. I guess kids will be kids and they will prefer killing zombies rather than downloading a math app to study the Binomial Theorem. App developers have realized it’s the fun element that’s making edutainment such a big deal today. It is.