Check out a great educational resource we found online: Oculture has an incredible listing of podcasts, videos and other materials on every subject you can imagine. It’s all free! Visit our online degrees site and scroll down to “highlights of the blog” in the right column for more info.

Here’s a good blog, and a good site in general about online degrees. This post is an interview with a gentleman from Texas A&M’s Office of Distance Education. If you’re trying to learn about online schools, there’s good info here about accreditation, getting internships, financial aid and how the school approaches master’s and doctoral degrees. According to this higher ed professional, Texas A&M’s online courses may be better structured than the school’s live classes. Not too many schools will step up and say that!
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Here’s a good blog to keep an eye on if you would like the know what distance educators are doing to improve their programs, and how they’re using technology. Today’s piece is an interview with a woman who does corporate and adult education for Duke University.
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The Distance Learning Interest Group is more for professionals who actually work on e-Learning, but it can provide worthwhile information to students as well. Subscribing to their RSS feed is a good way to keep your ear to the ground about new reports and issues that affect you and the school you may want to study at.
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I’m not sure who bposton is, but his “Online Degree Dorm Room” is a pretty good source of new facts and developments in the online learning world. Check out his writings and ruminations here

Bet you didn’t know that online courses use 90% less energy and produce 90% less CO2 emissions than traditional courses. I certainly didn’t! I’m not sure if they counted all that electricity usage for computers into the stats, but here’s a fun blog entry on the environmental correctness of distance learning in the UK.
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Education should make you smarter, not poorer, right? Here’s a very smart blog by a writer who looks in a very in-depth way at not just how you can fund your higher education, but how you can do it without creating unnecessary tax burdens for yourself. This information is great, regardless of whether you’re studying online, in a traditional class environment, or looking to fund your kid’s education.
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e-Learning Pundit is a good site about all the various aspects of online learning. One of their articles can take some of the work out of your process of choosing an online school. Their writer spent some time looking around the websites of major online business schools and public universities, and came up with this great list of prices being charged for credit hours, total tuition, individual courses and more.
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High school kids all over America (and their parents) have a long history of dreading the SAT. Millions are spent on prep courses from Princeton and other companies to get students ready to get a high number on this all-important test. But the SAT has long been criticized for favoring rich kids, and even for being totally irrelevant. Here’s an article by a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who says that even though he got into Harvard because of a high SAT score, it’s time to abolish the test. Read More…

This self-described “E-Learning Queen” has been blogging since 2001 - a long time ago in distance learning terms - about the methods and technologies of online study. Ms. Nash presents lots of interesting viewpoints on issues from K-12 on up through higher education. One recent post here offered a particularly good overview of how corporate e-learning methods today fall so far short of those in colleges and universities. Check out her blog here