On the homepage they have a search function pictured above where you can find a college that caters to a course you want to do. Here are some of the search results for a Bachelor’s Degee in Business. As you can see, they’re well presented.

Each school has a full profile with photographs and details of the courses available there. There are also user reviews which discuss the tutoring of the students and how the examination and project system works and about the degrees one can achieve.

They also have ‘Online College Ranking’ which shows the top 25 schools by their merit and results achieved there by the online students.

This website is a great resource for those thinking of doing an online course. It helps to make a decision which would normally be solved by visiting the actual college.

Features:

• Web directory of online schools and courses
• Lists thousands of online colleges and courses.
• Search and browse by categories.
• Provides reviews, rankings and resources for decision making.

Check out GuideToOnlineSchools @ www.guidetoonlineschools.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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Voicethread works with the idea that each picture is worth a thousand words. User can view slideshows, zoom and pan through images, and leave comments through voice, text, audio file, video, or even via telephone). With Voicethread, viewers are encouraged to actively engage in discussions using these commenting tools. All group discussions (or voicethreads) happen on one simple page.

Voicethreads are more organized than the usual live web conferencing interfaces since each comment are posted one at a time and stored in the thread so that future viewers can see them.

The features are designed to work well for educators in a distance learning environment. Students can create digital stories and reports, and teachers can demonstrate their research or prepare remote lectures.

Voicethread demo video:

Features:

• Start group conversations around images, documents, and videos.
• Embed and share voicethreads from your website.
• Comment in one of five ways: voice, text, audio file, video, or telephone.
• Free for educators.
• Draw doodles on top of images and videos.
• Moderator options for voicethread comments.

Check Out Voicethread @ www.voicethread.com

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Like Google Analytics for college applications, AcceptEdge also allows you to track and follow competition among universities using real-time admissions data. This way, you will know where you stand amongst other students hoping to get admitted to the same college.

Features:

• Find schools based on city size, campus setting, school size, academic focus, acceptance rates, and more.
• Admission statistics for every college and university in the United States.
• College predictor gives probabilities (0%-100%) of getting accepted in your choice schools.
• Suggested list of schools that you might be interested in based on your academic and social profile.
• AcceptEdge’s Edge Scores gives you a quick look on your chances of admission into your favorite college.
• Similar sites: Courseopedia.

Check out AcceptEdge @ www.acceptedge.com

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If you just want to feel like you learned something new today, check it out. You will understand a perspective that might have never occurred to you otherwise. It combines what will be the norm in a few years: TV style news and interviews with quality of newspaper articles. The coverage is often light-hearted in tone where appropriate, but hard-hitting in terms of content.

The TV function is good. You don’t get this cheaply done stuff with a washed up presenter, bad graphic effects and stolen clips from NBC. They get exclusive pieces and access to press events that actually mean something within their respective genre. For example, when I reviewed the site they had stories about 9/11 and Google’s CEO discussing geothermal energy.

If you have a Facebook account then you can log in using that instead of registering to make comments etc… To view videos, read articles or just browse it’s completely free and there is no need to register.

This is a very useful site and best of all, it works great on the iPhone for when you’re on the move.

If you liked this site you might also want to see other similar resources profiled in earlier MakeUseOf article, Two Websites to Watch Talks by Great Thinkers and Doers.

Check out FORA.TV @ www.fora.tv (by Dean Sherwin)

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• ZuiTube: Online Videos For Children
• Yubby: Share Favorite Online Videos As A Video Channel
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds

How it works;

1. Build your topic. Organize it by chapters, days, sections or modules.
2. Package contents it into an interactive online learning application (your Genie)
3. Publish and share your Genie online. Charge users for access.

You can always customize the look of your Genie (text, background colour etc), edit sections and reuse your old Genies to create new Genies. You can sell access to your Genie(s) online through integrated PayPal and Google Checkout payment options.

They offer a free account, which lets you create 1 Genie, store up 15 MB of content and unlimited users. Paid accounts starting from 24$/month and let you build more Genies, more storage and Google/PayPal resale options.

Features:

• Organize your knowledge of a certain topic into a dedicated learning portal (Genie), publish and share it with other people
• Easily manage documents (presentations, white papers) and videos within your Genie portal
• Connect your audience with blogs, wiki, online media and social network community.
• Integrated learning goal management tools – helps users achieve their learning objective.
• Invite friends and colleagues to review your Genie.
• Share privately with selected people or with everyone.
• Monitor individual user usage.
• Duplicate, edit and reuse your old Genie.
• All paid accounts can use integrated PayPal and Google Check out options.
• Sell your Genie(s) on Amazon.
• 100% of profits and commissions made is kept by you (Genie creator).

Check out KnowledgeGenie @ www.myknowledgegenie.com

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It uses open-source technology and courseware and incorporates peer-to-peer teaching methods where students form online study groups and help each other with homework assignments and exam preparation. To apply you must have a high-school diploma and sufficient level of English.

Students only pay $15-50 fee for enrollment and $10-100 for exams, with students from poorer countries paying lower fees. However, for 2009 Fall semester all fees have been waived.  For those strapped for cash, or looking to restart their lives, this may be a good option. Worth checking out.

Features:

• First ever non-profit free online university
• Incorporates online peer-to-peer learning methods and social networking features
• Fees: $15-50 for enrollment and $10-100 for exams, with students from poorer countries paying lower fees
• All fees are waived for 2009 Fall semester
• Minimum requirements: high-school diploma and sufficient level of English
• Apply and get enrolled online

Check out University Of The People @ www.uopeople.org

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To make things easier, the stock market is divided into mini-markets like Construction Stock Market, Energy, Entertainment, Food and so on. Click on a mini-market tab to find related companies in that industry. Alternatively, search to find companies based on what you know and like (chocolate, coffee shops, cars etc).

You can also research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying, read investing tips from experts and watch the value of your portfolio.

Watch video intro below:

Features:

• Free virtual investing site to learn trading on the stock market for free.
• Get virtual cash ($10,000), buy company stocks and build portfolio.
• Find companies to invest in, based on what you know and like (chocoloate, coffe shops, cars etc) or browse related companies by industry (e.g. Food, Construction, Energy, Entertainment).
• Research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying and watch the value of your portfolio on the right hand side.
• Sign up to get virtual money and start building your portfolio.

Check out WeSeed @ www.weseed.com

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• Map-Of-The-Market: Visual Stock Market Map
• CakeFinancial: Social Investing
• WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators
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The library currently lists around 10000 bird species. Usres may search for birds, browse them by families, genera, species, regions, and view most popular bird listings. Each bird listing contains a short description of a bird accompanied with related videos and audio sounds. Most of the content on the site is submitted by bird enthusiasts.

Features:

• Lots of information about birds, including bird sounds and videos.
• Search and browse birds by categories.
• Check out most popular and recent additions.
• Rate and leave comments.

Check out ibc.lynxeds @ http://ibc.lynxeds.com

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In addition to watching videos users may rate them and leave their comments. There is also an option to contribute by adding quality educational videos from other video sharing sites like Youtube.

Features:

• Search educational videos online.
• Browse by categories and subcategories.
• Rate and leave comments.
• Check out recently posted, most viewed and highest rated videos.
• Contribute by adding educational videos from other websites.
• Browser toolbar to add videos from other sites in snap.
• Similar websites: Lectr, AcademicEarth and MBAvid.

Check out WatchKnow @ www.watchknow.org

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To search, simply enter a keyword (e.g. marketing, Carpenter, Chinese ) or zip code and hit “Search”, Courseopedia will then list all available courses related to your query offered by different colleges. Clicking on a particular course listing brings more detailed information.

Additionally, if you represent a college/university or offer your own private courses, you can sign up for free online and submit your offerings on the site.

Features:

• Search college courses in one place.
• Browse results by class name, program, school and relevant career.
• Submit and publicize your own courses and classes.
• Lists a 30,000 courses available in  State of California.
• More us cities will be added soon.

Check out Courseopedia @ www.courseopedia.com

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Community features such as groups help you in discussing any of your presentations beforehand by uploading it and getting vital suggestions on their improvement. Plus you can create a playlist of videos you find useful.

Features :

• YouTube like site for educational purposes.
• Helpful for teachers and students.
• Discuss your presentations beforehand and get suggestions.
• Create a playlist of videos you find useful.
• Similar websiter: AcademicEarth and MBAvid.

Check out Lectr @ www.lectr.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• LectureShare : Share Lecture Notes Online

Here’s how it works:

1. You enter a word or text in the big box on the Wordsift homepage and press ‘ Sift ‘.
2. On the next page you get a tag cloud which has important words in the text.
3. You can click on any of the words and it displays Google image search result and visual thesaurus results below it.
4. It also displays more sentences created from that word on the same page.

For more info watch demo video below:

You might also want to check other similar apps for visualizing text and words which we have profiled earlier. These are Lexipedia, VisuWords and Wordle.

Check out Wordsift @ www.wordsift.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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To check your content for plagiarism online, simply paste a block of text inside provided form (or submit its online URL) and then click on the “Track plagiarisms”. Wait until Plagium scans through webpages on the Internet and brings a list of websites containing the identical text.

The site doesn’t require users to register in order to use the plagiarism tracker. However, as a bonus regsitered users are able setup alerts for certain text and receive a weekly email plagiarism reports.

Features:

• Free online plagiarism checker for checking whether content from a website or research paper has been used anywhere else.
• Able to handle checks with large blocks of text.
• Supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.
• Setup alerts and get weekly email reports (registered users only).
• Similar websites: The Plagiarism Checker and Copyscape.

Check out Plagium @ www.plagium.com

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You may download pictures to your computer in different sizes or print them out directly from the website.

Furthermore, you can rate, download and print pictures – all without any registration. Although egistered users get an extra option to bookmark and save favorite pictures to personal album for later use.

All of the drawings and photos are free to use for educational, non-commercial purposes.

Features:

• Free educational photos and coloring drawings for kids.
• Browse pictures by categoriessuch as animals, geography, circus etc.
• Download and save pictures in different sizes (small, average, large).
• Print out colouring drawings online.
• Register to save favorite pictures to personal EduPics album.
• Similar websites: TheColor.

Check out Edupics @ www.edupics.com

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Materials include maps, ancient manuscripts, architectural drawings, films, music scores, photographs and more. You can browse items by place, time, topic, ancient language, type of item or just search with a keyword.

Click on items to get more detailed information such as its description, details (date created, place, original language etc.), watch the related video interview by curator (if available) and view it in larger size.

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

• Discover historical documents and materials from different countries and historical periods.
• View ancient maps, manuscripts, architectural drawings, photographs and more.
• Browse items by time, place, language, type of item or search with a keyword.
• Click to view the item’s description, see related items and watch curator’s video interview.
• Zoom in to view the item in larger size.
• The Digital Library is available in English, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese languages.

Check out World Digital Library @ www.wdl.org

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You can view events for all your classes at once or for each class separately. Along with the web access website can be used from a mobile phone at http://m.trackclass.com and iPhone at http://iphone.trackclass.com.

Dashboard

Calendar

Features:

• Organize your school life online.
• Keep track of your studies – classes, assignments, exams in one place.
• View events for your classes at once and separately for each class on a Calendar.
• Receive reminders for upcoming events (quizzes, exams, assignment deadlines) by email or sms.
• Access your calendar events from any application that supports iCalendar format (Google Calendar, Outlook, Thunderbird etc.).
• View average grade performance for each class.
• Upload files.
• Mobile and iPhone versions are available.
• Free, sign up to get started.

If you’re a student make sure you also check out 10 Online Learning Tools for Students.

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It makes learning hard words both fun and interactive for everyone. Especially useful for those preparing for SAT/ACT verbal tests.

Currently site features a total of 515 vocabulary videos and aims to include videos for several thousands of SAT/ACT level words.

Video content is uploaded by the site and registered users. At first videos are kept in the “Videos” section where they get rated by users. Top rated videos are then promoted to the Study room, which also includes Flashcards for last minute preparation.

Registration is not needed for searching and watching videos, however registering on the site lets you rate, discuss and upload your own vocabulary videos.

Features:

• Hundreds of vocabulary videos for SAT/ACT level words.
• Fun and easy way to memorize words through video illustrations.
• View top rated, most viewed and most discussed videos.
• Wordlist contains the list of words of the uploaded videos. Browse words by letters.
• Free, register to rate, discus and upload your own vocabulary videos.
• Alos see 30+ Online Resources to Expand your English Vocabulary.

Check out WordAhead @ www.wordahead.com

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The application is useful not only for med. students, teachers, but everyone who wants to learn more about the human body. The models were developed by experts with decades of experience in the fields of medical illustration and biomedical visualization.

(Note: You need to install the Unity Web Player browser plugin from the website before you can run the app)

Check out the demo below for additional details:

Features:

• Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model.
• Over 400,000 registered users.
• Detailed models of all body systems and all major organs.
• 1700 anatomical structures.
• Dynamic search capability.
• Easy-to-use, 3D controls.
• Compatible with all popular web browsers

Check out Visible Body @ www.visiblebody.com

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Browse video lectures by business categories (e.g. Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Sales & Negotiation), view recent and most popular videos, search videos by keywords and leave comments. Videos are pulled from YouTube and uploaded by site members. Sign up to upload your own videos.

Features:

• Free educational mba video lectures online.
• Lists video lectures from prominent business leaders and thinkers like Milton Friedman, Carly Fiorina, Guy Kawasaki etc.
• Browse lectures by category (e.g. Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Sales & Negotiation), search videos by keywords, view recent and most popular videos.
• Free resource. Sign up to upload videos.
• Similar website: AcademicEarth.

Check out MBAvid @ www.mbavid.com

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• RotaBoard: Online Schedule Maker
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There is no registration needed for searching and watching videos, however if you register you would be ale add videos to your favorites, rate and leave comments.

Features:

• Watch video lectures online free.
• Video lectures from top US colleges like Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
• Search lectures and browse them by subject, university and popularity.
• Rate and leave comments.

You might be also interested in our earlier article, Two Websites to Watch Talks by Great Thinkers and Doers.

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When you first visit the site you will be presented with a randomly selected quote. In that quote, certain words that are highlighted, clicking on one of those words will open a new quote starting with that word.

You can also set QuoteStumbler as your homepage and get new quotes every time you open or refresh your browser.

Features:

• Interesting tool for random quote discovery.
• Lists more than 18,000 quotes.
• Discover quotes by clicking highlighted words or refreshing a page.
• No registration needed.

Check out QuoteStumbler @ www.quotestumbler.com

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• Spreeder: Learn to Speed Read
• Quotegasm: Quotations By Famous People
• Zinepal: Online Ebook Creator
• ZAPReader : Practise Speed Reading Online
• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting

All the howto video are nicely categorized from arts & media to first aid & safety, food & drink to games, technology to travel and much more. It provides easy sorting based on the most recent, top rated, most viewed etc.

It also allows you to rate each video and leave comment. Furthermore there is an option to upload your own how-to video or set and broadcast you own how-to channel.

Features:

• Giant collection of cool howto videos on various categories.
• Search for how to’s and browse them by category.
• Upload your own how to video or create your own channel.
• Check out most recent, top rated, most viewed etc.
• Email and RSS subscription to receive new how-to videos everyday.
• Also see previously posted post on Massive List of ‘HowTo’ Sites + Search Engine

More on Howcast:

Check out howcast @ www.howcast.com

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• World Freedom Atlas: Global Stats on Freedom, Democracy, Human Rights etc.
• WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information

Features:

• Online plagiarism checker.
• Check as many papers as you like.
• There is no registration required.

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Currently the sites offers podcasts for 12 different languages: Catalan, Danish, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Russian. For each language you get about 10 short easy-to-digest podcasts.

Features:

• Learn basics phrases for 12 languages (mostly European languages).
• You will get 10 free couple of minute long podcasts for each language.
• More languages will be added in the future.
• Premium option with more features also available
• No sign up or registration needed.

Check out OneMinuteLanguages @ www.oneminutelanguages.com

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• ZimRide: Carpooling Website To Find & Share Rides
• YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds

Search for tutorials, browse them by category (3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect etc.), leave comments, rate and so on. Registered users can further bookmark and store favorite tutrials in their account area.

Features:

• Free photoshop tutorials
• Bookmarks and store favorite tutorials in your account (registration needed).
• Check out Most Viewed and Highest Rated tutorials.
• Tutotial categories: 3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect, Texture & Patterns and User Interface Design.

Overall it’s a pretty good source if you’re looking for some step-by-step Photoshop HowTo guides. For more tutorials you can check out Good-Tutorials and Youtube (lots of video tutorials).

Check out Photoshop Lady @ www.photoshoplady.com

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• Wiredness
• VunkySearch: Lists Cool GIMP And Photoshop Tutorials
• Tutzor: Top Notch Photoshop Tutorials Collection
• RoundMyCorners: Make Pictures with Round Corners

Features:

• Get Statistics on GDP Per Capita, Education, Country’s Growth Rate, Number of Conflicts, Political rights, etc. for any country.
• Over 300 different data variables (covering the period from 1990 to 2006).
• All the data provided by QOG Institute, Goteborg University.

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• KmlFactBook: Maps CIA World Factbook Data on Google Maps
• Zipdecode: Visualize Zip Code Location as You Type
• ZCmap : Zip Code Lookup by City or State
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile
• Xm.my: Create Short Map Links for Any Location

BibMe – Feature List:

• Search for a book (title, author or ISBN), magazine, newspaper, website, journal or film.
• Choose between different bibliography formats: MLA, APA, and Chicago.
• Reference entry modes: Autofill mode or Manual mode.
• Get list of related sources that you can include in your bibliography.
• Download ready bibliography as a Microsoft Word document.
• Save and keep up to 10 bibliographies in your BibMe account.
• Citation guide: View rules and guidelines for different citation styles.
• BibMe database leveraged from following services: Books (Amazon Books), Magazines (LookSmart FindArticles), Newspapers (Yahoo! News), Journals (CiteULike Academic Papers), Films (Amazon DVD and VHS).
• Got more questions ? See BibMe help page.

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“Reading with speed. ‘Nuf said. Actually, the idea behind speed reading is that we can process information much faster than we actually do in real life with a book in our hands. Several factors affect our reading speed, like subvocalization (the little voice inside our heads that reads along with us and slows us down), backtracing (rereading parts over and over again), etc. The purpose behind apps like these is to train our minds to get rid of all the other crap.”

Feature List

• Customize: preferred reading speed, chunk size (number of words per view), font color and size, background color and text alignment.
• Speed variability: Slow down for larger and speed up for smaller text chunk sizes.
• Option to skip over the words that have no additional meaning.
• View real-time stats to see where you stand against other spreeder users.
• Browser bookmarklet (Firefox / IE): Easily copy text from any webpage and instantly load it to spreeder.

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Feature Overview

• For Tutors:
• Earn money by offering online lessons.
• Accept any popular payment method (Credit Cards, PayPal, Western Union, etc.).
• Display class schedules and available time slots.
• Receive lesson request notifications on your mobile phone (free).
• For Students:
• Get private lessons from qualified professionals.
• Browse tutors by topic (Art, Spirituality, Business, Humanities, Language, and Science).
• View individual tutor profiles, read user feedback (if available), schedule a lesson, take a test lesson (if available), etc.
• Store chat history and session notes online.

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Teachers:

- Easily publish and share lecture materials (notes, assignments, audio, video, etc.) online.
- Make class announcements.

Students:

- Easily follow-up on announcements and notes via email, SMS (mobile text-messages) or RSS.
- Download attachments, Stream audio/video enclosures, etc.

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Browse Online Degrees:

• by Subject (Business, Design, Legal, Science, Technology, Healthcare, Nursing, Political Sciences, etc.)
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“Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content.”

Gabcast Features

• Publish podcasts directly from your phone (or using your PC).
• Automatically share your recordings with others by embedding Gabcast player into your website/blog.
• Let others subscribe to your shows via RSS feeds.
• Users are able to download MP3 version of any recorded episode.
• Browse through all published Gabcast shows by category (Arts, Business, Comedy, Technology, ..), by popularity (Hot Channels), etc.
• Free account is limited to 200 MB of storage space.
• More information and dial-in numbers available in the video below or here.

Creating an Audio Podcast with Gabcast

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