All good things must pause.

We’re doing a comprehensive redesign of the blog, which is good news: our vision for the blog-future is grand and we’re excited about it.
But it’s going to take a few months; that’s the bad news.
Meantime, we’ll lightly post fun stuff and items of interest here, but most of our work will be behind the [...]

Branding Your Class, Part 2.

by Vincent Kovar
If twentieth-century marketing had a problem with supply, the twenty-first is having a problem with demand. Every day new, online colleges are being established and with so much information being constantly streamed at your students, it can be difficult for them to find the classes that are right for them. Every instructor should [...]

Online or overseas, for students, it’s a wide, wide world.

The latest in the New York Times’ Global Education series is an interesting article called Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required).
Worth a read, but here’s the fairly straightforward main point: “Expatriate education is expanding. This fall, at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling conference in Seattle, where admissions officers from American universities [...]

covert mission: earnmydegree infiltrates lubbock, tx on college football game day.

In this Special Report, learn how EarnMyDegree Agent Cao went behind enemy lines to demonstrate how we can bring education to the masses. Namely: how the masses can efficiently earn their college degree. While two casualties were suffered (two prominent flags were captured before crossing into enemy territory), Agent Cao & Co. ultimately succeeded in [...]

it takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

as we all sit and wait for the election results to beginning sweeping in, roughly east to west, let’s take a breath and see if we laugh at some jokes. up right now on the Psychology Today blog is a post by Elisabeth Malin and Dan Ariely about a study they did: Who Enjoys Humor [...]

waiting: for the election; for news of your college tuition.

At this time tomorrow, voting venues on the East Coast will have begun to close, and the anxiousness and hype and honest, urgent concern for America’s future will be at its fever pitch. While tomorrow is merely one day in the future, it’s still the future. The future of yesterday is today, somebody once pointed [...]

educate yourself to THIS reality.

 
if you didn’t know about baconsalt, the salt that tastes like bacon, this could be a bit of a jump for you–but here it is. go ahead and digest the image for a moment.
yes, it’s true. reality is finally starting to pay off: everything should taste like bacon*, and now there’s a mayonnaise that does. baconnaise is the new sibling of [...]

online learning opportunities extend to adults at all stages of life.

Education is a lifelong pursuit that gives us the opportunity for intellectual growth and discovery. But, traditionally, adults interested in continuing their education—on any level—would be obligated to attend evening classes at a college nearby, or to put much of life on hold for 1-2 years while earning their degree.
Not anymore. The [...]

“There have been flame-ups” : an interview with Link Hogthrob

EarnMyDegree Blog: So, first off, a hearty welcome to Captain Link Hogthrob, of Pigs in Space fame from the internationally renowned Muppet Show.
Link Hogthrob: Glad to be here.
EMDB: I understand things have been tough for you since your ship’s been permanently grounded.

LH: Um … permanently? I don’t think so. Nothing is permanent. But, yes, and [...]

“I'm not going to kill anybody else” : an interview with Boba Fett.