How
schooling for a bachelor degree could cost $1 a year or less
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Democrats, and Republicans, screwing students, and
Taxpayers?
How do schools, businesses, and Doctors misuse
governments to eliminate their competion and increase your prices?
How
could we, the
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university degree training
down to $1 per year or less by all
countries,
and states sharing podcast course costs, and to
provide
links to thousands of free courses from many
countries,
for all ages, to improve course learning, and to
implement
the success of this economic concept. The
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your ideas and comments will be created on this
website.
Together, and by countries and states cooperating
in this
way, we can reduce the cost of education to all people.
(Today's enemy is
tomorrow's friend.) The math and
reasoning
for this conclusion is simple.
How
schooling for a bachelor's degree could cost you $1 a year or less
The
typically highest wages that a U.S. professor gets is
$212,000.
per year (salaries vary from $30,000 to $212,000) for
teaching 1
to 6 courses. (Professor salaries:
External link http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/%29
Professors
Salaries Worldwide--Exterior Link
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/03/22/new-study-analyzes-how-faculty-pay-compares-worldwide
Some professors get $1,800 for
teaching one course, but in
our case more is needed and
expected from each one course
professor.
College textbook writers rarely earns more than $100,000 total
for one
textbook, ($25,000 would be the total earnings for a
very
successful textbook. and $10,000 is a typical total
earnings
for a textbook). (Occupational Outlook Handbook,
2010-11
Edition External Link--Copy and Paste in Google
-http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos320.htm
Authors
Salary External Link
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070928105106AASUK5n
Software
for this same course could cost $200,000, more or
less, and
management fees to tie all this together could cost
$100,000
for each course. Thus, the potential one-course
cost of
$600,000 dollars. Forty courses are required for a
bachelor's of science, and
40 x $600,000 = $24,000,000 is the
estimated cost of forty
courses.
But, if you
had 80 courses you could cover many of the
population's
requirements for various bachelor degree
courses,
and this would mean $48,000,000 would need to be
spent, each
year, with added translations costs, to educate
most of the
world's population to the bachelor level. This cost
would
include on line textbooks, in print, braille, or voice.
(These
stated costs, are speculations, which can be
experimentally
determined)
There
are about 313,000,000 people in the U.S. If each person
paid about
15+ cents, each year, for the right to be educated
throughout
his or her life, and took all or any, of the right
combination
of 80 selected podcast courses, to get her/his
desired
accredited bachelor's degree, these people would have
paid an
amount equal to the cost of their podcast courses.
($48,000,000
/ 313,000,000 = 15+ cents.) The courses could be
taken in
the comfort of one's home, in high schools, or
elsewhere
over the Internet from a podcast. This procedure
would
decrease the cost of living to everyone, including
people who
never had any schooling, because the educated
could then
charge less for their work, the supply (number of
educated)
would be greater, and the cost of life would go
down, and
the quality would go up.
Or, there
are 1,500,000,000 English speaking people and
1,300,000,000
Mandarin Chinese. If each of these
2,800,000,000
people wanted to be educated in English the
cost would
be paid if each of these people were taxed less
than two
cents each year, for his/her bachelor's degree.
Incidentally,
there are more English speaking people in
China than
in the U.S.A.
Now there would be additional student access and
processing fees that would be needed to be met if all these
people actually signed up as every costs must be paid.
Experimentation would determine a final cost, hopefully
nominal.
Other-language speaking countries
could translate podcast
courses, modifying them to
suit their individual language and
cultural needs, and if their
citizens took these same podcast
courses, much of the world's
education problems would be
solved, and cost would no
longer prevent people from getting
the job they wanted which is
now blocked because people do
not have the money or time to
go to college, and blocked by
licensing laws which require a
degree before one can go
further in school, or
even get a wanted job. This, to some
degree, happens in all
nations.
How would you test these
students so they could get an
accredited degree? After
studying each individual course,
taking their lesson
tests on that course, and feeling ready
for that final, each
student could be tested on their home
computer, or at high
schools, etc, while being photographed
with face, iris, finger,
or key stroke identifying software.
Chronicle article on finding
cheaters—Exterior Link
http://chronicle.com/article/High-Tech-Cheating-on-Homew/64857/
Ways to stop online
cheating-External Link
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pace-u-researchers-work-on-new
-way-to-stop-online-cheating/31421?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
The many final test questions
of a large bank of questions,
would be randomly re-mixed
after each test taker. The
course software would
notify the accrediting entity when
each person had passed
individual finals, and when the
required number of
course finals have been passed each
student would get their
bachelor degree from a course
accrediting entity recognized by all countries, state
and
federal government, and hopefully
by all educational
institutions as meeting their school requirements, life would
be enriched, simplified, and cost drastically less. (More
educated males and females have fewer children.This could
eliminate population runaway growth, and cause less global
warming, and the oceans from rising over our heads)
Currently people travel to
their universities, or schools to get
their education. Much gas,
money and time is consumed that
could be saved to learn. In
their 10 minutes to two hour trip to
class and back, lives are
risked in traffic, on average, wasting
a half gallon of gas traveling
back and forth, spending up to
2 hours daily in traffic,
walking between classes, waiting for
class to start, and getting
back home.
In a modern, efficient podcast
world this waste is eliminated.
Now thousand of professors
give the same lecture on the
same subject, in the
same type of buildings, needing grounds
and building
maintenance, police service, administrative
controls, plumbing,
etc. One podcast can replace this
expensive duplication of the same courses, waste, and
all these thousands of
then unneeded trips, buildings,
administrators, sidewalks,
grounds service people, and
professors, then would be
freed to do other important work
elsewhere and this would
save trillions. This reduced cost
would make it possible for the poorest of poor to be
educated.
In some countries up to 19 %
of their budget is spent
because of wasteful
education methods, and this prevents
people from fulfilling
their other equally important personal
needs. (Of an estimated
$l.l trillion being spent nationwide
in the U.S. on education,
at all levels, for school year 2009
-2010, a substantial
majority came from State, local, and
private sources. External
Link http://www.ed.gov/
Podcasts could cut educational cost dramatically. It is the
customers of students who finally,actually pay for the
students high education costs and this makes the cost of
life very expensive. A study being carried out by the
geographer, Ronald Dorn at Arizona State University
suggests that students
who use free online textbooks
perform as well academically
as students who buy expensive
copies from traditional
publishers. India, China and other
countries could also
create courses and software. South
Korea already has Robots
do some of their teaching.
How much money would
international students attending
U.S. schools save
every year if the total number of English
speaking people (1,500,000,000
of them) shared the cost of
80 course podcasts
($48,000,000) and the international
students used those
courses for their education by
studying, on their computer,
in their home instead of going
to brick and mortar U.S.
schools? Answer:
Total spent by
U.S. International students
/ number of international
students equals amount spent
by each student =
$17,600,000,000 / 671,616 = $26,206 = (spending per student
rounded ). But with all English speaking people sharing the
cost of podcasts the total spending would have been =
number of students times the yearly cost of educating each
student = 671,616 X $.03 = $20,148. If the podcasts were used
= $17,600,000,000 - $20,148 = $17,599,979,852 would have
been saved by people sharing the costs of podcasts, and
this saving is just for international students. Total savings
world wide would be trillions if people studied at home and
used podcasts instead of going to brick-and-mortar schools.
(source of total spent by international U.S. students is
Peggy Blumenthal, executive vice president of the Institute
of International Education, who notes that international
students spend an estimated $17.6-billion in the U.S.
economy in 2008-9.
If
this same podcast system was used for courses from
kindergarten
through 12th. grade, assuming 5 podcast
courses,
per year, per grade at $600,000 per course, the 65
additional
podcast courses would cost $39,000,000 for a
total cost
of $39 + $48 million = $87,000,000 to educate each
individual
with podcasts from kindergarten through college.
(This
includes the cost of all e-textbooks) If all the
2,800,000,000
combined Mandarin Chinese, and English
Speaking
people paid $87,000,000 / 2,800.000,000 people =
3.1+ cents.
Each person would have payed 3.1 cents per year
for their
total education. But, if only U.S. residents paid the
$87 Million
divided by 313,000,000 residents, each U.S.person
would pay
27+ cents, each year for their total podcast
education
from kindergarten through college.
Primary and
Secondary teachers could have their students
listen to
these podcast courses, and spend their own class
time
clarifying the subjects. Classes could be larger, of much
higher
quality, substitutes could be mostly eliminated, and as
much more
research and money would have been put into
each course,
quality would be higher. Parents, students,
home schoolers
and prisoners could listen to that days class
repeatedly,
on the Internet, that night, while sick in bed, or at
any time.
A Universal
Internet Language would then have been created,
trillions
would have been saved, (populations and world
warming
would have been decreased because educated
men and
women have less children), and the possibility of a
more
pleasant life would occur. All this because of world
group
buying, and a cooperative, loving spirit. Now 50 states
and all governments are duplication each other efforts and
wasting and loosing billions of their taxpayer's money by
duplicating the same courses 17,036 times in that
many world-wide colleges, and there are over 16,000
school boards in the U. S. with much duplication of
work--External Link
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_district
An
interesting video indicating how teachers time could be
saved
insuring quality teaching with podcasts thus class
teachers
time could be used for in-class clarification instead
of just
lecturing, and the software in these interactive
courses could immediately
tell the teacher what the student
had not understood, and
courses would also be available for
home study. External link Let’s
use video to reinvent education
MIT,
UNESCO, Goggle, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, India, China,
Wickipedia,
You Tube, Mark Zuckerberg, Alfred
P. Sloan
Foundation, U.S.A., U.K., , Netflix, or a consortium of
Professors not aligned
with a university, PUBLISHERS,
the
cooperative efforts of
the students themselves, etc. could
also
provide these same courses, but much faster than
PodcastInternationalUniversity.org
would be ready to do.
The
average 4 year degree student spends $1916 dollars just
for
gas in their 1095 days of travel back and forth to school,
(at
a half gallon of gas per day with $3.50 gallon gas,) These
same
brick-and-mortar students waste 2190 hours in their 4
years
of schooling, at 2 hours per day, while traveling back
and
forth to school and waiting for class to start. This is more
time
than the average student spends in study to get their 4
year
degree. All
governments are wasting their
citizens
money by colluding with their educational lobbies to
prevent
educational competition against the brick-and-mortar-schools.
A partial ultimate Course content
wish list
a. The lecture vocabulary
would be given before a lecture with
the pronunciations and
definitions of terms, that can be
skipped or clicked on.
b. The preliminary background
knowledge required for
understanding the lecture, and
a link to this knowledge
provided in the
lecture text, can be clicked on or skipped.
c. Possibly many more than the
number of course lectures
than the average
school provides with much more detailed
background knowledge which can
be discussed (or linked
to).
d. Intelligent Software that
all by itself can answer a student's
questions on a particular
subject and an awareness, by the
software, of the student's
missing background knowledge
from the questions
asked, and a direct link to that source.
On the TV game show
Jeopardy, a computer called "Watson"
was used to challenge
the best human minds, and with
questions limited to
one course, (instead of 10,000,000
documents that "Watson"
was programmed with) why can't
this goal be achieved?
This would eliminate the need to ask
questions personally
to a frequently unavailable professor
or teaching assistant.
e. Each computer course links
to websites so that questions
can be asked on the Internet,
with other students answering
when the questions have not
been answered by course
software.
f. All textbooks would be
included online and any word that is
clicked on would be defined,
and pronounced. If a page number
in the index is clicked on,
you are taken directly to that page.
g. Interactive software could
be available.
h. Public laboratories available to citizens and
students (to complete course exercises given by schools
for credit) in many cities. (one such lab exist in New
York City now}
h. -2 A podcast virtual
teaching laboratory
in which one learns much
as is learned in an MIT Laboratory,
but possibly more, and
with video displays.
i. Your favorite Icon as your
virtual teacher, Albert Einstein,
Isaac Newton, Madam Curie,
etc.
j.
In your comments, you could add to this course content
wish
list your additional wish list items.
It would be ideal that a course language could be
translated to all languages at
the click of a key, and this might
someday happen. If all 1.5
billion English speaking people
shared the $48,000,000 cost of
these 80 courses all of
Harvard's 6,700 undergraduates
could be educated for a total
cost of $215 or about
3.2 cents each year instead of $50,000
or a total cost of $335,000,000. (Harvards
undergraduates would save, in 4 years, $1,339,999,140.
Any university, primary, or high school could not afford to
pay the course cost of
this ultimate course
education wish
list for just
their own in school use, but with countries
sharing these costs
are affordable. Education for
bachelor degrees, primary, and high school podcasts
courses can be provided for pennies that would be superior
to existing courses in the current brick-and-mortar schools,
and China's, India's, and the world's educational problems
would be solved.
There is a shortage of high
school science teachers. Podcast
courses would solve this
problem, and provide, podcast
lessons to replace
absent teachers, as well as providing
courses on unavailable
subjects, or courses too short to
take a whole semester.
Sick people, people that cannot leave
their homes, the
prison population, and trades people,
(including vocational training)
could all learn in their current
location, and very advanced
high school students could get
their bachelor degree before
finishing the 12th grade.
Legislators
are now protecting brick-and-mortar schools
from competition by now
requiring that school have a campus.
This gives the legislatures
money or other awards for this
criminal act but robs you of
the opportunity of a reasonable
cost education, which anyone
could afford.These laws need
to be overturned.
What do you, we,
need to do to provide inexpensive, quality
education, and overcome any
educational lobby or other
political resistance to this
change? To
start, you could
advertise
by spreading the word, on the social media of this
educational
method and website, (to get people started!!!!!!)
Or,
you could walk, at your college campus, on the PUBLIC
sidewalk,
adjoining the PUBLIC street, and exercise your
PEACEFUL,
free speech rights with this sign. How schooling
for a
bachelor degree could cost $1 a year or less as
explained in:
PodcastInternationalUniversity.org
How do schools, businesses, and Doctors misuse
governments
to eliminate their
competition and increase your prices?
If
governments, states, Democrats, Republican,
and Independents, would let people share course costs,
and not block
people from getting an accredited education,
or a wanted job,
which they all do now, (encouraged by
most professions, trades,
and labor unions promoting
obstructive licensing to reduce their
competition,
(in their own trade or profession) by requiring irrelevant
education, delayed field entry,
unnecessary high entry costs,
and thus increase their charges
to you), all people
themselves could afford
to get an accredited education
without
government help. With K-12 and college podcasts
teacher's homework and grading
would be drastically
reduced and teachers would be more rested for their
important school teaching)
Examples
of deceitful rules at all occupation levels, that also
prevent
employees from starting their own business, raises
unemployment,
and increasing your cost of life:
a.
State law requires House painters in Massachusetts to work
for
a painting company for 4 years before they can take a
rigging test
that allows them to use ladders and staging, this
can be learned
in 1 day. (This legal ruling prevents students
from competing, earning summer money, and
cheaply
painting your house.
b.
Roofers in Florida must work 4 years with a contractor
(before
it was no years), and prices were as low as 8 cents per
square
foot) to pass a test that many roofers who worked 30
years,
in other states, can't pass, and learn all types of roofing
work,
instead of just the kind they want to do, (result after
legislation:
prices are 3 times higher and many people learn
to do
their own roof in two hours. Of course, none of the then
existing
Florida roofers had to take any test at all, and all the
finished
roofs continued to be inspected after completion, as
before,
indicating no need at all for prior testing.)
c.
Dentists are required to have 9 years of education to do
some procedures
that Alaska, New Zealand, and many other
countries allow
with 2 years of training (with equal skill, as
research proved), as indicated in Exterior Link
http://www.medicalcountries.org/
MedicalCountries.org $1000
to $3000. U. S. root canals can
cost as little $65
dollars in India.
(In fact, a few Indian dentists
do root canals for $18., as one Indian dentist told me.)
d. Automobile labor
unions forced wages up to $70.
dollars
per
hour (including benefits),
while minimum
wages were around $7
dollars per hour) thus U.S. car
manufactures could no longer compete with foreign
manufactures and we lost our car inductry.
e.
U. S., and Canadian Doctors and dentists are required to
pass tests
that in many years, only 1/3 pass, and to have 4
years of college
before medical school while in most
countries students start
medical school after high school,
learn everything they need to
know, and thus get 4 more
years of practice in their lifetime as doctors,
and U.S.
technicians are prevented from doing simple medical
procedures that the Veterans Administration, and many
other countries encourage. (All this is how they, and the
colluding government,
keep your prices high, get their treats,
and eliminate competition from low cost sources).
My father,
board certified in 2 specialties, would play
golf 3 days a week
while I , at 17 years of
age, would put a green liquid in his
patients eyes, fold their eye
lid over and remove any irritating
particles from these patient eyes,
free of change. (Anyone
can do this with 2 minutes training, and
not need the 24 years
of education he had. Many other daily done procedures
are
just a simple)
f.
Legislators are now protecting brick-and-mortar schools
from competition by now requiring that
school have a
campus. (What grass are they smoking?) Total spending on
U. S. education, from
all sources, and including all levels is
about 1.13 trillion yearly,
mostly for buildings and
administration. Exterior link
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html
g.
U.S. citizens are taxed to support a military industrial
complex that
consumes 6.61 times more of its dollars than
the 2nd biggest spending
nation does. (661 billion for U. S.
and 100 billion for China).
Just the cost of one air craft carrier,
5 billion, cost the
same as 104 years of 80 bachelor degree
podcast courses).Exterior
Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
h.
Or, the U.S. Government could educate 2.8 billion English,
and Mandarin speaking people for up to 858 years
with the
$41.2 billion in Pell Grants that were scheduled
to educate
only 9.6 million U.S. students for 1
year. ($41.200,000,000 /
$48 million, (1 year Pell Grant Funds
/ the yearly cost of 80
bachelor degree podcast courses = 858+ years of
college
It
does not always pay to put yourself, your team, your state,
your country, your religion, always ahead of others, and the
earth. In the end YOU lose.
Cooperation
beats the hell out of
competition in this podcast
case.
I
like my country as much as you do but I am not blind! Is it
any
wonder U.S. prices cannot compete with other countries,
and
that the U.S, is loosing most of its industries because of
these
anti-competitive practices???
Is YOUR Government screwing students and
taxpayers to
eliminate competition for education lobbies, and brick-and-
mortar universities?
The table
shows the yearly
cost, per student of getting a
College
Degree, and the cost of kindergarten through High
School
courses in countries or states of various sizes, (with
group buying.) It
costs $48,000,000 to provide the educational
material,
for 80 Bachelor Degree College Courses, and
$39,000,000
for kindergarten through high school, or
$87,000,000 for both combined if e-books and
lectures are
provided by podcast over the Internet.
The 9,600,000 Pell
Grant Recipients, with sharing, could pay these cost with
$5.00, and $4.06, and $9.06. and save the $41,000,000,000
of the 2012 taxpayers money spent on Pell Grants, but
colleges would object because this money is really used to
fund the wasteful practices of the states and colleges.
Group
Population
size |
Shared
cost
of College
each year |
Shared
Cost of
Kindergarten
through high
school
each year |
Shared
Cost of
Kindergarten
through College
each year |
| 1
student |
$48,000,000 |
$39,000,000 |
$87,000,000 |
Pell Grants
Recipients
9,600,000 |
$5.00 |
$4.06 |
$9.06 |
China
1,339,724,852 |
3.6
cents |
2.9
cents |
6.4
cents |
India
1,210,193,422 |
3.9
cents |
3.2
cents |
7
cents |
U.S.
313,000,000 |
15.3
cents |
12.4
cents |
28
cents |
Indonesia
237,556,363 |
21
cents |
16.4
cents |
37
cents |
Brazil
190,732,694 |
26
cents |
20.4
cents |
46
cents |
Japan
127,950,000 |
38
cents |
31
cents |
69
cents |
Pakistan
187,342,721 |
25
cents |
20.8
cents |
46
cents |
Bangladesh
158,570,535 |
30
cents |
24.5
cents |
54
cents |
Russia
136,739,892 |
35
cents |
28.5
cents |
63
cents |
U.K.
61,284,590 |
78
cents |
63.6
cents |
$1.41 |
World's
English
Speakers
1,500,000,000 |
3.2
cents |
2.6
cents |
5.8
cents |
World's
Mandarin
Speakers
1,300,000,000 |
3.6
cents |
3
cents |
6.6
cents |
World's
Spanish
Speakers
452,480,979 |
10.6
cents |
8.6
cents |
19.2
cents |
World's
Population
6,993,044,579 |
7/10
cents +
translation
costs |
1/2
cent +
translation
costs |
1.2
cents +
translation
costs |
U.S.
College Students
19,700,000 |
$2.44 |
$1.98 |
$4.42 |
U.S
College +
K12 Students
75,200,000 |
63
cents |
52
cents |
$1.16 |
California
37,691,912 |
$1.27 |
$1.42 |
$2.31 |
Texas
25,674,681 |
$1.86 |
$1.52 |
$3.38 |
New
York
19,490,297 |
$2.46 |
$2.01 |
$4.47 |
Florida
19,057,542 |
$2.51 |
$2.05 |
$4.56 |
Illinoia
12,869,257 |
$3.72 |
$3.04 |
$6.76 |
Pennsylvania
12,742,886 |
$3.76 |
$3.07 |
$6.83 |
Ohio
11,544,951 |
$4.16 |
$3.38 |
$7.54 |
Michigan
9,876,187 |
$4.87 |
$3.95 |
$8.82 |
Georgia
9,815,210 |
$4.90 |
$3.98 |
$8.88 |
North
Carolina
9,656,401 |
$4.98 |
$4.04 |
$9.02 |
New
Jersey
8,821,155 |
$5.45 |
$4.43 |
$9.88 |
Virginia
8,096,604 |
$5.93 |
$4.82 |
$10.75 |
Washington
6,830,038 |
$7.03 |
$5.72 |
$13.75 |
Massachusetts
6,587,536 |
$7.29 |
$5.93 |
$13.22 |
Indiana
6,516,922 |
$7.37 |
$5.99 |
$13.36 |
Arizona
6,482,505 |
$7.41 |
$6.02 |
$13.43 |
Tennessee
6,403,353 |
$7.41 |
$6.10 |
$13.51 |
Missouri
6,010,688 |
$7.99 |
$6.49 |
$14.48 |
Maryland
5,838,289 |
$8.23 |
$6.69 |
$14.92 |
Wisconsin
5,711,767 |
$8.41 |
$6.83 |
$15.26 |
Minnesota
5,344,861 |
$8.99 |
$7.30 |
$16.29 |
Colorado
5,116,769 |
$9.38 |
$7.63 |
$17.01 |
Alabama
4,802,740 |
$10.00 |
$8.13 |
$18.13 |
South
Carolina
4,679,230 |
$10.26 |
$8.34 |
$18.60 |
Louisiana
4,574,836 |
$10.50 |
$8.53 |
$19.03 |
Kentucky
4,369,356 |
$10.99 |
$8.93 |
$19.92 |
Oregon
3,871,859 |
$12.40 |
$10.08 |
$22.48 |
Oklahoma
3,791,508 |
$12.66 |
$10.28 |
$22.94 |
Puerto
Rica
3,706,690 |
$12.99 |
$10.29 |
$23.28 |
Connecticut
3,580,709 |
$13.41 |
$10.90 |
$24.31 |
Iowa
3,062,309 |
$15.68 |
$12.74 |
$28.42 |
| Mississippi
2,978,512 |
$16.12 |
$13.10 |
$29.22 |
| Arkansas
2,937,979 |
$16.34 |
$13.28 |
$29.62 |
Kansas
2,871,238 |
$16.72 |
$13.59 |
$30.31 |
Utah
2,817,222 |
$17.04 |
$13.85 |
$30.89 |
Nevada
2,723,322 |
$17.63 |
$14.33 |
$31.96 |
| New
Mexico 2,082,224 |
$23.06 |
$18.73 |
$41.79 |
| West
Virginia 1,855,364 |
$25.88 |
$21.03 |
$46.91 |
| Nebraska
1,842,641 |
$26.05 |
$21.17 |
$47.22 |
Idaho
1,584,985 |
$30.29 |
$24.61 |
$54.90 |
Hawaii
1,374,810 |
$34.92 |
$28.37 |
$63.29 |
Maine
1,328,188 |
$36.14 |
$29.37 |
$65.51 |
| New
Hampshire 1,318,194 |
$36.41 |
$29.59 |
$66.00 |
| Rhode
Island 1,051,302 |
$45.66 |
$37.10 |
$82.76 |
Montana
998,199 |
$48.09 |
$39.08 |
$87.17 |
Delaware
907,135 |
$52.92 |
$43.00 |
$95.92 |
| South
Dakota 824,082 |
$58.25 |
$47.33 |
$105.58 |
Alaska
722,718 |
$66.42 |
$53.97 |
$120.39 |
| North
Dakota 683,932 |
$70.19 |
$57.03 |
$127.22 |
Vermont
626,431 |
$76.63 |
$62.26 |
$138.89 |
Washington
DC
617,996 |
$77.68 |
$63.11 |
$140.79 |
Wyoming
568,158 |
$84.49 |
$68.65 |
$153.14 |
| New
York City 8,175,133 |
$5.87 |
$4.78 |
$10.65 |
|
|
|
|
*With extra
large classes some electronic and processing fees
would also occur, hopefully not large, and these later determined
costs would need to be added to the above chart.
The reason why costs in brick-and-mortar schools, and high
schools is so expensive is
because each type of the same
courses are needlessly being recreated,
each year, about
4,168 times for this many U.S. colleges, 17,036
times for the
worldwide colleges and 18,435 times only for
this many U.S.
high schools, and there are 16,216 various kinds of state
school boards in the 50 states, and the 50 states are also
duplicating each others work, to different degrees. Exterior
Link
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_district
There are 100,000 schools on earth that duplicate education
courses. The class group size is sometimes as
small as ten
students per course, Students, and tax payers are charged
for the real estate and other costs schools incur, as
explained in PodcastInternationalUniversity.org. Re-
inventing, duplicating the education course wheel by all
countries, state, and federal governments, not sharing
course
costs, the 16,216 school boards, and palatial buildings
are the major causes of high education costs. These are the
reason that many people can not get an education. Stopping
this waste worldwide would save many billions of dollars
every year.
If
you care about the students who can not afford to go to
college,
and the waste in taxes at the state and federal level
you will
call the media, your state, federal presidents,
governors, senators, and
representatives and explain how
your state and federal
government could save billions that
are wasted on students, and
governments dupicated efforts,
and thus reduce the taxes in both the state and federal
government and make it possible for everyone to go to
school, no matter what
their income was (as indicated in
the yellow chart). Bring
this issue up at any political
meeting and ask contentants to
respond and tell you what
they can and will do about this
issue. Have some courage
and character and do this! (no matter what
your age is or
the country you live in).
Please don't
tell me that regular college and K-12 courses
would be as good
as $600,000 courses that have thousand
more hours of work
on them, have video, variable audio,
software to answer
question, practice graded tests,
produced in voice, Braille,
in bold, variable print, with the
index linked to the text pages,
words linked to definitions,
are worked on again and
again in every way, are interactive,
have constant peer to peer review, and can be listened to
repeatedly at home, in prison, on the media, yet cost
students pennies with group buying.
Some professors get
$1,800 for their course. How much
time, and money do they
have to do all all this work?
Free
Cell Phone Service, if you qualify, which is good for
light usurers but
to get the triple minutes for life you must
pay, one time,
$49.99 to http://tracfone.com/ to get the
new Touch
Screen Phone #LG800G with a better camera, MP3
player, and free shipping. Its up to you. Then your cost per
minute would be 1/3. To see if you qualify under this
goverment program
click--
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Safelink/program_info/faq/faqOverview
Alaska Communications--Unlimited
phone for $1 per month but
you have to live in Alaska
List: Free Cell Phone Providers for
the Poor"--
http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/
There are 16
of them in various states.
The 6 Regional
Accreditation Agencies (for your
checking of
the college's accreditation)
1. Middle
States Association of Colleges and Schools (for
New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the
District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands)
Click to see list of schools--http://www.msche.org/institutions_directory.asp
2. New England
Association of Schools and Colleges (for
Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Vermont).
External link click link for schools list
http://cihe.neasc.org/about_our_institutions/roster_of_institutions/
3. North Central
Association of Colleges and Schools (for
Arkansas, Arizona,
Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio,
Oklahoma, New Mexico,
South Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia,
and Wyoming.)
click and follow directions--External Link
http://www.ncahlc.org/Directory-of-HLC-Institutions.html
4. Northwest
Commission on Colleges and Universities (for
Alaska, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.)
clink link for list and follow directions
http://www.nwccu.org/Directory%20of%20Inst/Directory%20of%20Institutions.htm
5. Western
Association of Schools and Colleges (for California,
Hawaii, Guam,
American Samoa, Micronesia, Palau, and Northern
Marianas Islands.
click to view list--External Link
http://www.wascsenior.org/wasc/MI_Directory.htm
6. Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools ( Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina,
Alabama, Tennessee and Texas). click on link--
http://www.sacscoc.org/
Free Accredited College for you?
A list of of 100 free
and partially free colleges Exterior Link
http://www.advantageedu.com/blog/2008/100-free-college-rides-you-dont-need-daddy-to-pay-for
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060910/18free.htm
Http://www.saylor.org has an
online Catalogue of 240+,
free, self-paced, non credit college courses, including textbooks
that you could take. No registration or fees are required to
take these courses and you can get a certificate, and badges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saylor_Foundation
Michail
Saylor's personal belief and desire is that education
should be free so everyone can get an education. He is now
paying authors, $20,000 each to create free textbooks for all
of his 240+ courses, and is working with StraighterLine, an
online course provider, to get academic credit for freely
available courses.(How
many people that you know would do
something like that for YOU?)
Students can study these free courses on Saylor.org and
then enroll at StraighterLine to take an exam. After passing,
they will receive American Council on Education
recommended credits. Students could also enroll in a
StraighterLine program, using Saylor’s free course materials
as they go along. You may need to check the transfer-ability
of this offer to determine if it was successful. These
companies will team up with George Mason University and
Northern Virginia Community College to offers students an
easier method of transferring credits between institutions.
A talk by Michael Saylor at the National Press Club:
http://www.microstrategy.com/events/national-press-club/
Free Tuition for
Pregnant single women under 18 and married
pregnant women under 21, at some colleges in some states. Check
your state for this free offer.
Free Tuition for
anyone who got a grant or forgiven loan, for
many reasons. Check our Grant, loan, and Scholarship Tutorial,
check this website www.fastweb.com/
, use these keywords:
Free college , on the
internet, and search your own mind for some
even better keywords. Sometimes your idea is the best one you
will ever hear.
Free Tuition for Vets in most
states under the Department
of Veterans Affairs
Yellow Ribbon Program,
and other programs--U.S. Map links to specific
colleges in each state that provides tuition.
http://www.gibill.va.gov/gi_bill_info/ch33/YRP/YRP_List_2010.htm
Free college for children and spouse's
of California Service-Connected Veterans
Dependents Educational
Assistance --External Link--
http://www.calvet.ca.gov/vetservices/education.aspx
http://www.calvet.ca.gov/vetservices/benefits.aspx
Six
states offer free tuition for Veterans-- Connecticut,
Illinois,
Montana, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Exterior Link
http://suite101.com/article/free-tuition-for-veterans-a59833
Free
tuition
for Vets in Colorado
http://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles/3195-free-college-tuition-for-veterans-at-select-schools
Free college for the
blind information--External Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission
Books-Royal National College for the Blind--External Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_College_for_the_Blind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Royal_National_College_for_the_Blind
Assistive technology for the blind and
impared at RNC on this link
- Hoople
- Mountbatten
Brailler
- RoboBraille
- Talking
Tactile Tablet
- Vinux
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_School_for_the_Blind
Free Tuition for Disabled http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/education/scholarships/
Free tuition for Childred of disabled Vets
http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/education/scholarships/
List of free scholarships for the disabled
http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/education/scholarships/
http://www.freemoneyfornursingschool.com/
Search
for nursing
school grants now.
Nursing Education and Grants http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/
http://www.counterfeitdegrees.com/alternatives/state-funded.htm
Free Tuition for
American Indians
http://www.fortlewis.edu/financialaid/NativeAmericans.aspx
http://www.naihc.net/index.php/training/tuition-free-training/
http://www.ehow.com/info_7826113_tuitionfree-college-american-indians.html
Try these key words in your search engine: Free tuition for,
seniors, university employees, native Americans, nursing students
Tuition Free Colleges--
http://www.uopeople.org/groups/tuition-free-education
Free Tuition Free Music Courses
http://education-portal.com/article_directory/Education_Insider_News_Blog.html
Free High School
http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/hakusho/html/hpab200901/detail/1305888.htm
Check YOUR rights under this law.
164.2842 Free tuition at state-supported school for survivor
of police officer, firefighter, or volunteer firefighter
permanently and totally disabled in line of duty -- Free
tuition at state-supported school for survivor of other
state-administered retirement system participants
disabled as a result of duty-related injury.
Find
your lost Cell Phones, or friend
Lost
Cell Phones are found through triangulation
with
broadcasting
towers or with GPS (Global Positing
System) chips,
which most recent phones have. Free mobile phone
tracking
apps to find
lost cell phone are available.
You
can try these cell
phone
locator app, or download
your favorite one from the Internet by
putting in
these
key words. (Free Cell Phone Locator Apps). Law
enforcement
would need a warrant to send a locating
ping to your
phone for non emergency reasons. This
service is available to
emergency services via a system
called Enhanced 911.
Sprint has a
locating service that costs $5.00 per
month
for
anunlimited number of searches, and a service that
sends you a text message of the location of anyone in
your
cell phone
tracking network at a regular time of
day. Verizon,
AT&T, etc.
have services. Google Latitude,
works with Google maps is also
used by
people.
To download it, go to: http://www.google.com/latitude
You
can set up virtual fences for someone and when
they
go
out of your fenced in area you
get an email, but many
methods of tracking are
explained more thoroughly than
I have
indicated
here
at: http://pattyhahne.hubpages.com/hub/cellphonelocater
How
could we, the students, solve the high-cost-education-problem?
By establishing a crowd-funded 501(C)3
non-profit
endowment to create 145, courses from kindergarten
through a bachelor degree, available free, on the Internet
to all of the world's students, 100,000 colleges, and k-12
schools. These courses, in text, voice, Braille with e-
books could be modified by any school or country,
with some undecided restrictions, to meet their
educational, social, language, religious, needs and
preferences. Start-up schools would already have these
courses ready for their use. Then we could start a coop-
student university, and get prices of a year of bachelor
-degree training down to costs all students can afford.
These courses would be constructed to contain the
spirit and instructional methods intuited, or suggested
in the following article.
Rethinking the Way College
Students Are Taught Exterior
Link
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/lectures/rethinking-teaching.html
Students
can not take in and process all of the info in
a typical lecture. Course content needs clarification,
and technology change, peer to peer review etc.
There are over 17,036 worldwide colleges, including
4,168+ U.S. colleges, and 18,435
U.S. high schools,
with at least 16,000 school boards just in the 50 U.S.
states. Worldwide, the estimated 100,000 k-12 and
tertiary schools are all creating different versions of
the same courses, year after year, reinventing the
education-course-wheel, often in thousands of palatial
buildings, and lots, used only part of the year. This is
wastefully expensive as we now have podcasts, and
the same improved, more complete podcast-courses
can be shared with billions, over the Internet, and thus
eliminate the expense of thousand of buildings,
duplicated courses, and allow education to continue
all year round, costing much less, because of course
-costs-sharing.
Now
huge endowments are collected and wasted with
students typically getting only 1% to 4.6 % of these
funds. ($411 billion is the total U.S. endowments) This
amount could pay for 4724 years of course costs for
most of the world's education from kindergarten to a
bachelor degree ($411,000,000,000/$87,000,000 = 4724
years), or Harvard's endowment ($31.728 billion)
would pay for 367 years, and MIT's endowment,
($9.713 billion) 111 years. (73 colleges could educate
all of earth's students from kindergarten to a bachelor
degree for 11 or more years with the money they have
in their endowment funds. Incidentally, we could save
billions in taxpayers and endowors collective taxes with
the then decreased amounts needed for education with
podcasts, and thus eliminate the 1 Trillion student owe.)
List of endowment amounts held by
colleges:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
Small,
duplicated course classes is the normal way
education has
occurred, and this resulted in a year of
college costing up to $55,000. These practices must be
largely changed if student fees are to be reduced.
For
most students we need only 145 core courses, 80
bachelor courses for the 17,036 worldwide colleges
and 65 courses for the worldwide 82,964 K-12 schools.
Podcasts allow repeated in school and home viewing.
At $600,000 x145 for each of these superior courses =
$87,000,000, equals the total course-cost for the
100,000 worldwide schools, or $870 per school, with
an average cost of only $6 per school-course when
sharing occurs.
But, if
all of the courses are duplicated and recreated,
in each school, as they are now, and these teachers
are paid the lowest I have heard paid to a teacher for
their courses which is $1,800, the yearly duplicating
cost equals $12,159,972,000 instead of $87,000,000
for 145 non-duplicated, more expensive and complete
courses. Course-costs
must be determined by research.
The Math, if you want to review it.
(number of worldwide colleges x the number of college
core courses, x course cost) + (number of worldwide
k-12 schools, x number of k-12 core courses x course
costs) =(17,036x 80 x $$1,800)+ (82,964 x 65 x
$1,800.) =
$12,159,972,000 = the duplicating cost
for the 100,000
schools.
The
U.S.alone gives $41,200,000,000 in Pell Grants to
9,600,000 U.S. college students. This cost could be
largely eliminated with podcasts. So,
$41,200,000,000 + $12,159,972,000 = $53,359,972,000
- 87,000,000 = $53,272,972,000 saved plus billion in
other student cost.
The Internet and podcast technology has
eliminated the need for so many buildings, and
duplicated courses. One does not have to leave
their home, travel to another state to be educated,
or waste 2 hours per day going back and forth to
school, burning all that gas and waiting for class
to start.
The
individual's course-cost of schooling from
kindergarten to a bachelor degree equals the
course-cost including e-books, divided by the
group-size taking those courses.=
Paying Groups
Sharing Cost Yearly
One Person
$87,000,000
9,600.000 Pell Grant Recipients $9.06
19,700,000 U.S. College Students $4.42
313,000,000 U.S. Residents
$ .28
1,339,724,852 China Residents .07
1,210,193,422 India Residents
.07
1,500,000,000 All English Speakers .06
452,480,979 All Spanish Speakers .20
(Some additional fees may be needed as
determined by trial and error.)
We, the students, could start an endowment to
provide
145 free,
updated yearly, core, k-2 to Bachelor degree
courses with, e-books, video, audio, Braille, peer to
peer review etc., for the 100,000 thousand k-12 and
tertiary world-wide schools. These more complete
courses would drastically reduce all of the yearly,
costly course
duplication in these public and private
schools, and allow each school to modify these
courses to fit their language, cultural, and educational
preferences, with some undetermined restrictions, thus
save students and governments billions, over the years.
Then we could
start a coop-student university, and get
prices of a year of bachelor-degree training down to
fees all students can afford.
There is No free
education student's nipple!
A peaceful voters revolt is
needed! Students and parents
should start a student-parents-taxpayers-educational-coop-
University, (their own university) to drive prices from an
unaffordable high of $55,000 per year to less than a $1.00
per year.
Schools use their political power, and treats to buy all
governments, and protect their wasteful practices and
economic interests as most economic groups do. This in
true in China, India, Russia, UK, U.S., etc. Why would you
expect otherwise? Most businesses, trades, and special
interests do the same. Thus, you need to establish an
educational organization that benefits you, the students,
parents, and taxpayers by providing low cost superior
education. This is more possible now, with podcasts,t hat
you see on your computer than it has ever been. By using
technology to eliminate, real estate, teaching, testing,
duplication, travel and labor cost, having huge class
courses, and using group buying these goals can be
easily reached.
There are
19,700,000 U.S. university students, or about
75.200,000 parent of students, and student voters plus
most other U.S. taxpayers whose
taxes would be reduced
by lower education costs, much more than half the
population. This means that a large block of the U.S.
population does not want a
government that purposely
increase education costs and force irrelevant high cost
education that prevents people from working by
denying licenses to work by creating irrational rules
and requirements that are made only for the purpose of
limiting competion for educational lobbies, the graft
and treat providing groups.
We need to get presidents, governors, legislation, and
judges that pevent competition, out of office, and insure
a government that allows education
everyone can afford,
and costs pennies. There are 17,036 worldwide colleges,
each duplicating what the others are teaching, re-inventing
the college-education-course-wheel 17,036 times each year
in that many colleges. This causes expensive wasteful
education that not much effort and content has been put
into. Podcasts eliminates this wasteful practice.
By sharing
course recordings, you could get higher quality,
more complete
college education in your home that is
beneficial, constructive, purposeful, affordable to everyone.
The yearly
SHARED COST per person in the indicated
groups: = cost of courses/
divided by the group size.
1.
$48,000,000 / 19,700,000 college students = $2.43 yearly
cost in the U.S. if only college students paid all the costs.
2.
$48,000,000 / U.S. population = $48,000,000 / 313,000,000
= 15+ cents instead of
$55,000 tuition, if all U.S. residents
paid 15+ cents, everyone could take the 80 courses.
3.
$48,000,000 / 1.5 billion English Speaking people =
3+ cents yearly if all
English speaking people shared the
80 bachelor degree courses.
(Some years
as much as $41.2 billion has been scheduled
to pay for only 9.6 Million U.S.
college student's Pell
Grants with money taken from taxpayers
which mostly
goes to colleges, not to students.) $41.2 billion minus $48
million equals a saving of $41,152,000,000, or a saving of
$464 dollars for each of the 88,568,468 U.S.
taxpayers who yearly recently paid any tax at all.
This is a calculation from information on
Answers.com which you can verify
by re-calculating.
Education with Podcasts this way could educate
313,000,000 U.S.
people instead of only the 9.6
million Pell Grant students that were educated, or
1,500,000,000 English speaking people could be
educated for the same $48,000,000.
A
student-education-coop, not hard wired to be a university,
is needed,
as long as degree granting is achieved. This
could be a: 1. Course
management system, 2. Learning
management systems, 3.
Programmed learning system,
4. Publishers of courses that
include the same course they
publish textbook for, and 5. Yes, and
even organizations
sometimes called a university,
college, or school could
educate and provide degree granting, as
long as they are
not run just for the benefit of the schools and the
government.
These
stated costs would include on-line
textbooks, and
be more complete than any course you have ever
taken,
have thousands more hours of work on them, have
video,
variable audio, have software to answer questions,
practice
graded tests, produced in voice, Braille, in bold variable
print, with the index linked to the text pages, words linked
to definitions, are worked on again and again in every way,
are interactive, have peer to peer review and can be listened
to repeatedly, yet cost students pennies
with group buying.
We need a peaceful students, voters revolt in the U.S.,
China, India, etc., and
a students and parents coop-
University. Lobbies will resist our every effort,
but we will
overcome. Bring this
issue up in political
meetings.
Education does not need to keep you, parents, and
taxpayers in dept for years.
How to Start a College, University, School,
Kindergarten
Exterior
links:
http://melbrown1.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Start-Your-Own-Online-College
http://www.startcolleges.com/buy-sell-colleges.htm
http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2263
http://privateschool.about.com/cs/startingaschool/ht/startaschool.htm
All
Colleges by-- Costs, Age, Size, Statistics, and Rankings for Grad,
On-Line, and K-12 Schools
National Center for Education Statistic
http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
All Colleges by Size, Age, Cost http://collegestats.org/colleges/all
Rankings
for Colleges, Grad, On-Line, and K-12 Schools
World Wide College Rankings
http://en.wikipedia.orgWorld Wide
College Rankings_and_university_rankings
http://www.usnews.com/education
Ranks College, Grad School,
High Schools, and On-line Schools
Exterior Links:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.comm/best-colleges
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings
http://www.collegechoicesforadults.org/
Book- "Bear's Guide to Earning
Degrees by Distance Learning"
Princeton Review Rankings
http://www.princetonreview.com/college-
College
Choices for Adults -Compare 3 college choices,
included are student
demographics, satisfaction rates,
retention and completion rates.
Law School
Rankings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_School_Rankings
Business
School Rankings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_business_school_rankings
Ranking
K-12 Schools
http://schoolmatch.com/ppsi/txtweb.cfm
Global Rankings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings
http://www.newsweekshowcase.com/education/global/articles/the-best-of-global-universities
http://www.webometrics.info/
Student Loan , Grant , and Scholarship Tutorial
lf you start
studying student grants, scholarships, and loads
early you may save thousands. Colleges get a kick-back so
your college may not be the cheapest source for your loans.
Funding Education beyound High School-- A Federal Student Aid Guide
--http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/2008-2009/english/typesofFSA_grants.htm
Sources of Free money for you
to go to College--External Link
http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarship
Free
student grant money that does not have to be paid back,
(up to $5500 ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell_Grant
"Secrets to Winning a
Scholarship" by Mark Kantrowitz"
(9781456459949) book with
advice about how to find and win
a scholarship or fellowship,
paperback, $9.95.
He also publishes two websites
about financial aid
Exterior Links
http://www.fastweb.com/ and
http://www.finaid.org/
Search Engine Search Terms
to try: 1. financial aid, 2. grants,
3.financial aid+(your state name); 4. grants+(your state name);
5.scholarships+(your state name); 6.loans+(your state name);
7.foreign student financial aid; 8. international financial aid;
9.student loan+(your state name); 10. (cheap student
loans);
12. (Scholarships by
Major, Grade level,+your state name)
13. (Scholarships by financial need, race, religion, gender)
14. (Scholarships by medical history or aboriginal history)
15. (Scholarships by other student factors by whether you
study at home or abroad by specific field of study by personal
& athletic achievementetc) for more info and ideas
see:
Exterior Link http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarship
+ (Try your idea and term,
it may work better that anything
I have listed, but read my list first and you may get a
better idea from your own brain, haven't you noticed that
your idea is sometimes the best one you have ever heard?)
Sources of Free money
for you to go to College
External Link--http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants/
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarship
Scholarships for the Disabled
http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/education/scholarships/
Free
student grant money that does not have to be paid
back (up to $5500) Exterior Link
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell_Grant
Nine Student Federal-Aid Programs Exterior Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAFSA
Six hundred five (605 State Aid Programs) Exterior Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_aid_programs
For grant programs
from various states like Cal Grants from
California http://www.csac.ca.gov/doc.asp?id=20
use this search term: financial aid + state name
http://www.csac.ca.gov/doc.asp?id=111
Financial Aid Exterior
Links
http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/index.jsp
http://www.direct.ed.gov/parent.html
http://www.fastweb.com/
http://www.finaid.org/
"Secrets
to Winning a Scholarship" by Mark
Kantrowitz" (9781456459949) paperback, $9.95. He
also publishes two websites about financial aid
Loans from
0% to over 14% exist. You just have to find them!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_States#Stafford_loan_aggregate_limits
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Student_loan&oldid=494732872
Federal
PLUS loans- parents
can borrow up to the full
cost of attendance at a college, minus any other aid
the
family is eligible for.
http://www.direct.ed.gov/parent.html
Perkins
Loans
Federal Perkins 5% Loan with no payment due till 9
months after graduation and no payback at all for
some students. On
$5,000 of Perkins-loan debt, the
monthly payment is $53 over ten years. Perkins loans
can be discharged (cancelled) in full or in part when
you are employed at certain kinds of work, including
these full time jobs: teacher, when your school serve
a low-income area, you teach special-education
students, or you teach math, science or other subjects
with a shortage of teachers; nurse or medical technician,
enforcement or corrections officer, full-time employee
of a child, or family-service agency in a low-income
community, or full-time Peace Corps volunteer. (Certain
loan forgiveness is considered as income by the IRS.)
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/fpl/index.html
Private Loans
Home-equity and
private lenders loans
may be useful.
Nellie
Mae,(Braintree, Mass., 800-367-8848
http://www.nelliemae.com/) offers parents
EXCEL
education loans at variable rates that are
calculated monthly or annually. The annual rate
is prime plus 2 percentage points, the monthly
rate is prime plus 0.75 percentage point, at the
beginning of each month.
Sallie
Mae makes supplemental student loans, called
Signature Loans, for up to the full cost of college. The
interest rate is variable, the prime rate plus zero to two
percentage points. A
fee of 0% to 6% is subtracted
from the loan proceeds.
https://www.salliemae.com/
TERI
offers the loans through several lenders, Bank
of America, Bank One, First Union and PNC Bank.
etc.
The rate is prime minus 0.5 points. TERI charges a 5%
to 6.5% origination fee. (800-255-8374;
http://
www.teri.org
Free College course credits by taking Tests
College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) , developed by
the College Board, the people behind AP and SAT, is a 40
year old examination program, accepted by 2,900 colleges
and universities and administered in over 1,700 test centers.
These 20 tests, each an hour long, examines your mastery of
college-level material acquired through general academic
instructions, independent study or extracurricular work, in
five general subject areas: English, history, languages,
mathematics and science, and will allow a college to give
you college credit in each passed subjects, if they are
willing. You could reduce the cost of your education by
studying these 20 subjects, on your own, and thus save
the course charge for the passed course subjects, and
could verify this by calling various colleges of your choice.
Then, register for the tests online.
If you speak more than one
language you could also get college
credit by taking a tests for the
additional languages. In your search
engine put :(where to take
CLEP exams) Also, check colleges to
find out if any will
give you degree course credit for any
free Internet course
you have taken from MIT, Standford,
Yale, ect.
Very little of Endowment Funds go to Students.
What
could
YOU do to change this, or reduce student costs?
Total Value of U.S. Endowments
to colleges and
Universities equals $411
billion, with 76 of these
institutions having total
endowment assets of more
than one billion.
Harvard University alone, has $32 billion.
The average payout to
education issies is 4.6% per year
of the total endowment assets, with the larger endowed
colleges paying only 4.4% on average, but some pay much
less of their total endowed assets. Students get very little
of the money given.
List of U.S. Colleges and
Universities by endowments
Per
college, Per
student, and by
growth. Each of these
73 colleges could provide the courses to educate all of
earth's students from kindergarten to a bachelor degree
for 11 or more years with the money they have in their
endowment funds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
The Purposes and
Uses of Endowments vary with giver and
receiver, with students
getting very little of the money given.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=Use+and+purpose+of+college+and+university+endownments
Various measures of PellGrants
spending, through the years Exterior Links
http://trends.collegeboard.org/student_aid/report_findings/indicator/310
(PellGrant Recipients
increased from 1.9 million in 1976-77 to
9.6 million in 2012-13, and
spending increased from 5.6 billion
in 1976-77 to $41.2 billion in
2012-13.
Publishers could create $1 a year, and
less bachelor degree + K-12 courses
Publishers could be contracted
to yearly produce state and
federal government accredited
podcast courses in the same
education specialty in which
they currently produce textbooks.
Each superior, more complete
podcast course would be in voice,
bold clear print, or braille,
changeable to other languages with
each chapter being able of
being instantly updated from new
knowledge, have peer to peer
review, and from learning from
the students question how text could be improved to increase
understanding. Software could
answer questions and provide
lacking knowledge indicated
by student queries. E-book
indexes could be linked to
text pages, interactive text to
pronounced definitions, have art work, and practice chapter
tests.
A course accrediting agency
could give the student credit as
each course is taken and
passed at home, at their local high
school, or on a computer
linked to anti-cheating software.
After each student has
taken a test the large bank of final
questions would be
remixed, and when the required number
of courses is passed
each person would get their degree.
Universities could not afford
and do not produce a course of
this quality for their few
hundred people, but with group buying,
podcast education would have a
quality not now available in
any University that
could be listened to repeatedly. This would
dramatically reduce the cost
and improve the quality of
education to people
and their governments, and save trillions.
Ideally, these courses would
not be copyrighted, could be
modified to suit the use of
any people, country, business, or
person, thus have much greater
utility, and not be required to
be totally created again and
again for different users.
With 80 bachelor degree
podcast courses covering many of
the needs of various
college degrees, and 65 K-12 courses,
from kindergarten to
12 grade costing $87,000,000 @
$600,000 each, many peoples educational
needs would be met
at a cost of only pennies with large cooperative buying by the
1.5 English speaking people or the 313,000,000 U.S. residents.
Open
Source Education
Open Education reduces barriers and costs to entry.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
Example:
Open University
in Britain and Athabasca
University in Canada
http://archive.org/details/education
Open Source Books
= http://www.archive.org/details/opensource
Open Source
Movies = http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies
Open Source
Audio = http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
Browse by Subject
/ Keywords =
http://archive.org/browse.php?field=
subject&mediatype=education&collection=adminofyourowncollection
Public Library of Science open access http://www.plos.org/
MegaReader
iPhone App Gives Access to Internet Archive's 1.8 Million Free Books in
a Personalized Reader
750 free, or low cost textbooks by category, and subject:
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-by-subject
Creative
Commons Keywords:
Creative Commons, Creative
Commons images,
Creative
Commons music, Creative
Commons license
Creative Commons pictures, Creative
Commons definition,
Creative Commons attribution, Creative
Commons Youtube,
Creative
Commons music library
Carnegie
Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative –
a portfolio of highly interactive
multi-media courses
http://oli.cmu.edu/
Copy and paste in search engine
100 Intro Open Courses on Everything
You’ve Ever Wanted to Learn
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/05/12/100-intro-open-courses-on-everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-learn/
100 Excellent Open Courses on Green Technology, Development, and Design
http://www.onlineschools.org/study-hall/100-excellent-open-courses-on-green-technology-development-and-design/
Internet
"Archive" Software, Music, Art. etc. External Link:
http://www.archive.org/about/terms.php
Digital Library all links are external
Important Chronicle of
Higher Education Article:
Place the following
text in search engine to get the article:
"Free-Range
Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How
Students Hunt for Educational Content Online"
Information about Digital
Libraries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
The Internet
Archive (IA) is a recorded memory of all the web
pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.
The Waybackmachine, http://archive.bibalex.org/
stores this
digital memory, plus U.S. television broadcasts, archival films and
digitized books, on 1636 computers having a capacity of 3.7
petabytes. I petabytes = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. This same
information is stored at the New Library of Alexandria in Egypt at
http://www.bibalex.org/InternetArchive/IA_en.aspx,
or
http://www.archive.org
Internet
"Archive" Software, Music, Art. etc. External Link:
http://www.archive.org/about/terms.php
MegaReader
iPhone App Gives Access to Internet Archive's 1.8 Million Free Books in
a Personalized Reader
World's
largest digital library of education literature
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Internet
Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
International Children's
Digital Library, 4643 children's books in
61 languages,free with texts, pictures, and some
audio.
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory
en.childrenslibrary.org
http://www.similarsitesearch.com/alternatives-to/en.childrenslibrary.org
Public Library of Science open access http://www.plos.org/
NSDLorg-National Science Digital Library http://nsdl.org/
asme online digital library asmedl.org/
Journal
Index 1999 till present
http://www.eric.ed.gov/journals/
Research and Documentation Online
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/
PBS system-wide
online library contains video, audio, images,
games, and interactive simulations, etc.
University
of Iowa School of Library and Information Science.
http://slis.grad.uiowa.edu/
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eresources/indexes.html
World Digital
Library, Home Library of North America,
Latin America, Europe, Middle East and
North Africa, Africa,
Central and South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania
and the Pacific http://www.wdl.org/en/
HathiTrust
Digital Library, millions of free books
http://www.hathitrust.org/
African
Digital Library http://www.africandl.org.za/main.htm
Journals http://www.inasp.info/
Open Education in Africa http://www.africaeducation.org/
China Digital Library http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk//
Open Education in China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Open_Resources_for_Education
Digital Library of India http://202.41.82.144/
Low
cost schooling in India for remote areas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Open_Schooling
http://www.wyomingpbs.org/education/library/
Social
Studies PK-12 - K-12 Education Content Areas -
Library
Research Guides at Boise State University:
http://guides.boisestate.edu/educationcontentareas
Open
Library-a Lending library 9313 works, and 10,784+
ebooks, more coming External Link
http://openlibrary.org/subjects/lending_library
Classroom for teachers, news,
exhibits
http://www.18thconnect.org/news/?p=49
1.
World-wide Free Courses
Exterior Links to 5910+ free University Courses (any link
that does not work copy and paste it in YOUR SEARCH
ENGINE)
Free online Education
-External Links- grouped by
Language
| Institution
Name | Country
| Courses |
Advanced Course
Search | OpenCourseWare
Websites
Countries with Open Course
Ware (free online education):
Click Country, school, course,
Language External Links from:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/members/country/AF
Low cost
schooling in India for remote areas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Open_Schooling
Carnegie
Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative –
a portfolio of highly interactive
multi-media courses
http://oli.cmu.edu/
http://oli.cmu.edu/get-to-know-oli/learn-about-our-courses/
- tab-open-free
MIT free course list
of 2100+ courses by subject
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
website-tools.net/google-keyword/word/mit+free+courses
MIT's free
courses for self learners--Exterior Link
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/
http://www.oercommons.org/browse/keyword/gateway-courses
MIT Media Lab (To explore for general interest ) Exterior Link
http://www.media.mit.edu/
MIT Course resources
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/
Free Courses Harvard
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative
http://cmeonline.med.harvard.edu/index.asp?CurrentSection=2
Free Courses Yale
http://oyc.yale.edu/
Free Courses Princeton
http://www.virtualprofessors.com/directory/university/princeton
Free Courses Stanford
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/march/online-courses-mitchell-030612.html
Free Tufts Courses http://ocw.tufts.edu/Schools/1
Hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and
supplemental materials from universities in the United
States and China
http://archive.org/details/education
100 Excellent Open Courses on Green Technology,
Development, and Design
http://www.onlineschools.org/study-hall/100-excellent-open-courses-on-green-technology-development-and-design/
Copy and paste in search engine
Nova
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Free Courses use these key
words in your search engine:
free courses Yale, free courses
Princeton, free courses MIT,
free courses
Stanford, free courses, free online courses + your
subject, free video online courses, free video lectures, engineering
courses, management courses, courses + your favorite words,
video courses + your
favorite words. death, genetics,
astronomy (audio
video science lecture courses)
Free software, put in (download itunes)
Top
10 Free Open Courseware Directories
MOOC Courses List
To get mooc courses put each of
the following in your
search engine and put any of the following key words:
mooc harvard, mooc mit, mooc stanford,
mooc
courses, free mooc
courses, etc.
U. of Illinois at Springfield
Offers New 'Massive Open Online Course'
Exterior
Link http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/u-of-illinois-at-springfield-offers
-new-massive-open-online-course/31853?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Interesting video external link
Let’s
use video to reinvent education
PBS system-wide
online library contains video, audio,
images, games, and interactive simulations, etc.
http://www.wyomingpbs.org/education/library/
Free software listing many
educational sources at, (put in):
"download itunes"
in your search engine."Podcasts for
Preschoolers", K-12, all sorts of podcasts, university lectures
and courses are available to your computer and from your
portable devices.
Thousand+ free popular courses Exterior Link
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Free Flash Card Software for remembering and reviewing.
External Link http://ankisrs.net/
Free wonderful TV Education Sources External Links
Wonderful Info
with video and audio on technology, entertainment
design, business, science and global issues--Exterior link
http://www.ted.com/
NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/programs/--Programs A to Z
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
http://www.pbskidsplay.org/promo/CKH222--For Kids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/-For Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archive/
-Listed A to Z by year and
categories
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/schedule.html-Listed by Future TV Schedule
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/resources/title.html--Listed by Title
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/resources/subject.html-Listed by Subject
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/listseason/28.html
- 2811 Listed by Year Made
http://www.pbs.org/topics/history/
List by History
External Links http://www.intelligenttelevision.com/A
Annenberg Media http://www.learner.org/
Article External Link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/10/web-technology-degree-future-online
50 Best OCW Collections External Links
http://onlineuniversityrankings.org/2009/the-worlds-50-best-open-courseware-collections/
Top
10 Free Open Courseware Directories
YouTube Edu External Link http://www.youtube.com/edu
Textbook Developer Adds YouTube
Videos to E-Books Exterior Link
instructional videos from
e-textbooks sold by Kao
Inc.
Students will be
able to access Khan Academy's
External Link 10
Best Uses of the Internet for Academic Purposes
2. Free Textbooks and info to lower your
Costs:
Textbook
Sources: Free and Pay
Open textbooks are free or inexpensive, on the web
and modestly priced for downloads, use on eReaders,
or in bound format.
Public Library of Science open access http://www.plos.org/
MegaReader
iPhone App Gives Access to Internet Archive's 1.8 Million Free Books in
a Personalized Reader
750 free, or low cost textbooks by
category, and subject:
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-by-subject
150 free textbooks of various subjects copy and paste
link
Exyrtior Links http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks
Free
textbooks list
International
Children's Digital Library, 4643 children's books in
61 languages,free with texts and pictures.
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory
en.childrenslibrary.org
New
at iTunes U: Free E-Books-Oxford, Rice, and the
Open University have added digital books to the lectures
and other materials available on the education-content,
creating forums for reader interaction.
Five
million books to preview or read for free http://books.google.com/
Google
3 Million ebooks External Link books.google.com/ebooks
National Academies Press announced it
would offer its
entire PDFcatalog of books for free, as files that can
be
downloaded by anyone (4000 Books) The National
Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/
Examples of
some available open textbooks, which
generally are free, if used for noncommercial purposes,
are on this Website. External Link:
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.com/
Copy and paste in search engine
Art History e-book http://smarthistory.org/
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Free
E-Books (33,000): External Link ProjectGutenberg
In your search
engine put in: free ebooks
Free but not open textbooks
http://oerconsortium.org/copyrighted-digital-textbooks/
Eighteenth-Century
Collections Online (ECCO),
Early
American Imprints (Evans). Collections of old books online
E-book sharing sites such as:
External Links
http://www.scribd.com/
Ebook sources CourseSmart.com
enter ISBN, Title
author or keywords, copyright year, edition, or subject (on
line or down loadable, 12,496 items+) $6.95 & up for 360 days.
External Links
Literary Classics, etc, etc, etc
External Link Google Books
Open Library -a Lending library 9313 works, and 10,784
ebooks, with more coming External Link
http://openlibrary.org/subjects/lending_library
Chronicle
of Higher Education Article:
Professors
Put Textbooks Online to Reduce Costs
Experimenting
with online publishing, three professors offer
their textbooks free to help students.
World's largest digital library of education literature
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Journal Index
1999 till present
http://www.eric.ed.gov/journals/
Apple’s
iBooks
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
Buy cheap textbooks
External link
http://www.sccbooks.com/
Link to learning material external link
http://www.oercommons.org/
Compare online bookstores, Amazon,
Barnes and Noble,
eBay, Varsity Books, and eFollett.com.
Textbook Developer Adds YouTube Videos to E-Books Exterior
Link
instructional videos from
e-textbooks sold by Kao Inc.
Students will be
able to access Khan Academy's
Publisher External Link http://www.FlatWorldKnowledge.com/
promised free access to all of its E-textbooks.
Compares your potential supplier's prices by subject,
author, or ISBN & etc. External Links
http://www.cheaptextbooks.com/
http://www.half.com/Textbooks
http://www.textbooksrus.com/
http://www.chegg.com/
http://nationalbookrentals.co/
Use a comparison shopping service such as: Exterior Link
Best Book Buys (lets
you compare the availability of books
from up to 20 bookstores, including shipping, handling and
taxes)
Four of the largest textbooks publishers in the U.S.
Exterior Links http://www.pearsoned.com/
http://www.cengagelearning.com/
http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/
Houghton Miffin Harcourt http://www.hmhco.com/
Additional Textbook publishers: External Links:
http://www.Bookboon.com/
F. A. Davis
Company exam review Products
http://www.fadavis.com/
Flat World Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
Jones and Bartlett Publishers http://www.jblearning.com/
John Wiley & Sons http://www.wiley.com/
Sage Publications http://www.sagepub.com/
W.W. Norton & Co. http://www.norton.com/
Publishers Costs:
64% to 67% of the cost of a new textbook goes to the
publisher, 9% to 12% to the author, 2.5% to the freight
company, 9% to 22.7% to the store or college, and 12.5% to
the bookstore, (University of Phoenix converted to electronic
books years ago, to reduce costs and compete for students.)
Many publishers costs could be eliminated by countries,
states, cities, public and private school joining together to
select an author and produce the same online, open course
textbooks in the millions, which could be modified to satisfy
local requirements, and cost could be much, much, much less.
Textbook finding
Suggestions from Students
1. Provide multiple copies of each college assigned
textbook in the library.
2. Students donate their used course text at the end of the
course to the library. (if the library will shelf your book)
3. Share your copy on different study days. Ask professors
to put their copy for students in the school library.
4. Search through the free OCW (online course ware) for
textbooks used in the course area of your interest, and learn
from that on line textbook used in the free course, so you will
have the knowledge you need in your textbook-less course:
Example: Calculus
Online Textbook, (with instructors, manual,
guide and video, from "MIT OpenCourseWare")
5. Students, themselves should provide master lists of
online free textbooks in all subject categories.
6. Faculty should know and consider costs of their
assigning books and identify book costs in syllabi.
Students could inform professors that violate this rule.
7. Faculty should list books early so that students can
investigate all purchasing options, and avoid ordering new
editions when they do not contain significant changes from
past editions.
8. Buy books on the international market.
9. Gamble by not buying the required books.
10. Use on-campus bookstores as a resource to gather price
information and ISBN codes for early buying, for shopping
online.
11. Compare online bookstores, Amazon,
Barnes and Noble,
eBay, Varsity Books, and eFollett.com.
12. Search each vendor individually or use a comparison
shopping service such as Best
Book Buys (lets you
compare the availability of books from up to 20 bookstores,
including shipping, handling, and taxes), or Big Words.
13. Meet students in your major through campus clubs
organizations and buy books through those acquaintances
and friends.
14. Many of the classics such as Shakespeare's plays, are
available or free online at sites like ProjectGutenberg, that has
thousands of free e-book titles available for downloading.
15. Consider buying an older, used edition of a particular
textbook.
16. Some colleges have a book recycling bin outside their
bookstores, (suggest one).
17. Some colleges and
alumni associations offer small
scholarships to help
needy students with textbook costs.
18. Some textbook publishers offer online versions of
textbooks that students subscribe to for a semester or more
without having to buy a copy of the book.
19. Ask professors to use free, online, open-source
textbooks whenever academically appropriate. Online
textbooks-Pearson Education, which operates online as
SafariX Textbooks Online has online versions of
some of its
titles. Several
widely used economics textbooks are available
online at Aplia. Ask your
professor if there is an online
version you need.
20. Check out the Student PIRGs- Public Interest Research
Groups: Exterior Link http://www.studentpirgs.org/
from
which many of these ideas came from.
21. Examples of some available open textbooks, which
generally are free, if used for noncommercial purposes, are
on this Website. External Link:
http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.com/
Copy and paste in search engine
22. Put the list of required texts in registration materials so
students would have time to shop.
23. Use a publishing house that offers books in the public
domain for $10 to $30s.
24.Free textbooks list
25. Lobby Congress to establish a grant
program for open textbook authors.
26. Promote open source, free
source textbook with students
searching for such authors, (and
giving professors lists.)
27. Provide your list of online free textbook sources which
others should add to.
28. There are 16,000+ U.S. school boards, duplicating the
work and decisions of each other (on buying, picking
book, and courses), could there be less and save billions
of your tax dollars?
29. Public, private schools, and different countries could
work together, hire authors, and publish identical textbooks,
by the millions, and cut costs by 90% or create open course
books that each country could modify to suit their own
preferences. Example: China, USA, India, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan all could use the same modified open course
textbooks, online or paper. (Make love, Not War!!)
Textbook Articles:
Will professors build their own textbooks?-External Links
-http://chronicle.com/article/As-Textbooks-Go-Digital-Will/124881/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
3. (You) Create a College Problem Solving
Think Tank
How else can students do anything they do? Use Internet
Group Sourcing (Group Brainstorming) to solve, and provide
ideas for other ways to do anything you do. Can you get to
school a different, cheaper way? Buy food the same way small
groceries do for 1/4 the cost, in boxes, and divide it with other
students, (Many of these suppliers will sell to you, and
frequently deliver, as I have already checked). Have a buying
coop. Rent a
house with others, and reduce your rent cost by
more than half, but protect yourself by planning how to deal
with problem people. Are there IT solutions to deal with
parents, or grandparents to help them solve their problems?
Can you convince the CEO of the company you want to work
for that you can already perform needed tasks with your
current education? Start
your own company, hire someone
with the needed educational credentials and hire yourself.
List everything you and others do and want to do, and find a
better way!!! Idea Example: Are some citizens willing to let a
student live rent free, for work that does not take much time
so you have time to study? Some house bound people need
people to shop and do other tasks that do not take much time.
(You have to check to find out and some years the answer
will be yes, or no. You could put an add in the paper or ask
the paper to take your add free.) Going to college, including
summers could cut some of your cost by 25%.
Student loans in the
United States , check our tutorial
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_States
Sources of Free
money for you to go to College External Link
http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants/
Free student grant money that does not have to be paid back,
(up to $5500) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell_Grant
Funding Education beyound High School-- A Federal Student Aid Guide
--http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/2008-2009/english/typesofFSA_grants.htm
4. Learning and teaching tech aids
Subscribe to the free"Tech Therapy"
podcasts by Chronicle
of Higher Education listed in itunes (which is
free software
on the Internet that you download using the key word
"download itunes"
in your search engine.
Shortcut to above: External Link
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chronicle-higher-education/id261225205
an MP3 file (on evaluating IT)
Important-- Chronicle of Higher
Education Article: Place the
following text in
search engine to get the article:
"Free-Range
Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students
Hunt for Educational Content Online"
Free Flash Card Software for remembering and reviewing.
External Link http://ankisrs.net/
MIT Media Lab (To explore for general interest ) Exterior Link
http://www.media.mit.edu/
Example of a free learning tool that is a better teacher than you
get in colleges. (words are pronounced, defined, explained, etc.)
We need 80 such tools in core courses that are paid for by all
English, and Mandarin Chinese speaking countries and translated
into other desired languages. External Link
http://www.genome.gov/glossary/index.cfm?
With Skype videoconferancing services ("Skype in the class
room"), guest speakers, professors, and students can attend
lectures remotely via the web.
Teachers share tips, experts, resources, links, teaching ideas,
pair classes, and chat. With standard videoconferancing,
homeschoollers could share with each other, in other countries,
in all kinds, and levels of formal and informal schools.
Exterior Link http://education.skype.com/cam
http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
Exterior Link
It is like Skype but allows for multiple video chats simultaneously.
Support Forums are
being used to help students help each other,
creating chat-rooms,
extending classroom discussions, answer
questions, and
assisting with homework. Look for them.
CourseSmart, http://www.coursesmart.com/,
Alternative Media Access Center,
http://www.amacusg.org/about.php,
and AccessText Network,
http://www.accesstext.org/, are translating digital
Textbooks
into braille and
scanning with text-to-speech computer
software, so that
they can be read out loud.
Instructure will make most of its software platform available
for free under an open-source license. Instructure is a
course management software company. External Link
http://www.instructure.com/
Chronicle Article about Bill Gates prediction External Link
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/bill-gates-predicts-technology-will-make-place
-based-colleges-less-important-in-5-years/26092
Will professors build their own textbooks-External Links
-http://chronicle.com/article/As-Textbooks-Go-Digital-Will/124881/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Chronicle article on teaching large classes Exterior link
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-
extra-large-classes-and-the-role-of-technology/30046?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Journal of Digital
Humanities, a free journal
showing “the
best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by
the digital humanities community” in the last three
months.
5. Home schooling
Home schooling, home learning, home
education, by tutors or
parents is legal in all 50 U. S. states, but not in all countries, and
it is regulated by laws. On average, the home schooled
outperformed public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points
across all subjects, with almost no performance gap between
minorities and genders. On average, homeschooled children
score eighty-one points higher than national averages on the
SAT scores, are better socialized and have more self confidence.
External link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling
A list of virtual school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_schools
(
If this link does not come up when you click on it
copy and paste it in your search engine)
Free Online Accredited Worldwide K-12 Education
--http://www.flvs.net/
A list of U.S. states with k-12 online virtual schools
for your
study and evaluation.
External Link-- http://www.k12.com/schools-programs/online-public-schools
Key words to look for K-12 U.S. Schools
virtual k-12 U.S.
schools
Online, Public Schools
Online Private schools
free U.S. K-12 schools
K-12
School Directory
Wonderful Info
with video and audio on technology,
entertainment, design, business, science and global issue.
Exterior link http://www.ted.com/
With video conferencing your
students can remotely attend
classes, formal and informal, in many countries, languages,
and educational levels. Your effort, and imagination is your
major limit. Also, check out. External Link http://education.skype.com/cam.
http://education.skype.com/projects/384
which is about remote video education in the U.S. states.--copy
and paste links in you search engine is they do not come up.
http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
Exterior Link
Is like Skype but allows for multiple video chats simultaneously
Free software
listing many educational sources at,
"download itunes"
in your search engine."Podcasts for
Preschoolers", K-12, all sorts of podcasts, university lectures,
and courses are available to your computer, and from your
portable devices.
Interesting video external link Let’s
use video to reinvent education
Important Chronicle of
Higher Education Article:
Place the following
text in search engine to get the article:
"Free-Range
Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How
Students Hunt for Educational Content Online"
Digital Libraries
World's largest digital library of education literature
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Journal
Index 1999 till present
http://www.eric.ed.gov/journals/
PBS
system-wide online library contains video, audio, images,
games, etc.
http://www.wyomingpbs.org/education/library/
Social
Studies PK-12 , K-12 Education Content Areas -
Library
Research Guides at Boise State University:
http://guides.boisestate.edu/educationcontentareas
Open
Library-a Lending library 9313 works, and 10,784+
ebooks, more coming External Link
http://openlibrary.org/subjects/lending_library
Internet "Archive" Software, Music, Art. etc. External Link:
http://www.archive.org/about/terms.php
Free Flash Card Software for remembering and reviewing.
External Link http://ankisrs.net/
Free wonderful TV Education Sources--External Links
http://www.pbs.org/programs/ Programs A to Z
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
http://www.pbskidsplay.org/promo/CKH222 For Kids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/ For Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archive/
Listed A to Z by year and
categories
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/schedule.html Listed by Future TV Schedule
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/resources/title.html Listed by Title
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/resources/subject.html Listed by Subject
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/listseason/28.html 2811 Listed by Year Made
http://www.pbs.org/topics/history/
List by History
Keywords to find education on the web for students
free education websites
free teacher websites
free school websites
free teaching websites
education games
course education
"teaching courses"
homeschooling
homes schooling
homeschooling information
homeschooling facts
advantages of homeschooling
homeschooling articles
against homeschooling
online homeschooling
Homeschooling in the United
States
If you and your student picks from the choices, they and
you, are frequently happier.
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