Posted by huntsmanic on Thursday, April 2, 2009
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Monday, March 30, 2009
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Monday, November 3, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Thursday, October 30, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Monday, September 29, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted by huntsmanic on Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted by christie on Thursday, June 19, 2008