[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Play”] Most of the time professors do not worry about what price point a course will sell at, or what amenities might attract a student to pick one course over another. However, the recently created new online platform, Professor Direct, lets instructors determine: how much they will charge for a courses, how much time…
What is CLEP?
The abbreviation of College Level Examination Program or CLEP is a program of exams offered by the College Board, a not-for-profit Examination Board in the United States, formed back in the nineteenth century. The College Board manages standardized tests, such as the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, CLEP, ACCUPLACER, and the subject-specific SAT Subject Tests and Advanced Placement…
MOOCs in traditional education
Massive open online courses have begun to be integrated into traditional colleges — by making them eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses. The American Council on Education, and Coursera announced a pilot project to determine whether some free online courses are similar enough to traditional college…
5 Top ways to deal with semester tough times
Normally, there are a number of events when students have difficult issues in their academic semesters. In order to live a successful academic life students have to become “a-dig-deeper” to bring out the solution of every problem. Fortunately there are some approaches that are best to cope with all issues that stop students to grow.…
1,000,000 Free online CLEP Prep Courses
Education portal offers free video courses to help students prepare for exams, that will earn them college credit. They have reached a million students in its first year of operation. The portal is organized by selecting: – degree – school – career or – course with a comprehensive number of items in each of the…