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Flevy: The Business Documents Marketplace

1 Comment Posted by on October 27, 2012

FlevyFlevy is a marketplace for business documents specifically the ones that are used by people who work in a business function. The documents varies from Excel Financial Models to customizable PowerPoint Templates to “How- To” Business Frameworks. It basically helps those who are in the Marketing, IT, and Corporate Finance industries explore and access vital documents like:

  • Blue Ocean Strategy Primer
  • LBO Valuation Model
  • Cost Drivers Analysis Framework
  • Research Report-cum-Financial Model
  • Crawl Walk Run PowerPoint Template Read more of this post
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Practutor: Adaptive Learning Platform

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 29, 2012

PractutorPractutor  is an adaptive learning platform to help students excel in Math and English. Basically, Practutor is established to focus on the students. Since most students find it difficult to love these subjects, Practutor aims to solve this challenge and make students be more enthusiastic in learning Math and English.

Indeed, Practutor is virtually effortless and very intuitive for students to use. Read more of this post

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CodeAvengers: Learn Javascript Through Interactive & Addictive Lessons

1 Comment Posted by on June 15, 2012
CodeAvengers

CodeAvengers

Code Avengers is a site where you can learn Javascript. The platform makes it tremendously easy for anybody to learn the programming language.

Code Avengers makes difficult things easy. You might be wondering how easy learning a programming language can be. Apart from the perseverance you need to learn any language for that matter, Code Avengers makes the learning quite simple. It has interactive lessons and games apart from clear instructions that makes it easy and interesting to learn Javascript. Read more of this post

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WordSteps: Enrich Your Vocabulary, Learn New Foreign Words

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 31, 2012
WordSteps

WordSteps

WordSteps is the newest and the easiest way to learn new foreign words. With the help of WordSteps, you can learn words using your computer, phone or mobile device. That means no matter where you are, you can always learn new words and improve your vocabulary.

This service is for all those who would love languages and would like to learn new words of any language. It also helps you to learn effectively. You can take reading, writing, listening and visual exercises whenever you have time.

WordSteps also helps you to remember what you have learnt. Its built-in algorithm is created to help you remember the words forever and recall them instantly. Read more of this post

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MindSnacks: Language Learning Is Now Fun

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 25, 2012
MindSnacks

MindSnacks

MindSnacks makes it possible for you to have mobile learning games on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

It offers you exciting learning games that help you to learn something new. There are over 1,500 hand-picked words, phrases, audio clips, and pictures jam-packed into 50 lessons. There are six games in one that helps you to become a language wizard. You can learn vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and conversation skills.

On MindSnacks, you can track your progress. It accurately personalizes your experience based on your progress so that you know exactly where you stand. MindSnacks is not a time-waster like other games. It lets you have all the fun you want and in the process allows you to learn. Read more of this post

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Fixoodle: Online Language Translation Service

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 14, 2012
Fixoodle

Fixoodle

Learning a new language is now in the tips of your finger with Fixoodle.com. This service allows you to study English by connecting to people around the world. It is basically a social website where people help each other to learn a language.

Fixoodle is a community based online language translation service. You can make friends who can help you learn your target language. In this site, you can practice accordingly by posting in the language you are trying to learn. Once you submitted a post, you simply have to wait while people try and correct your post. So, you can quickly learn by your mistake by learning from a native language speaker. Read more of this post

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ThinkBinder: Collaborate On Studies Online

1 Comment Posted by on February 19, 2012
ThinkBinder

ThinkBinder

ThinkBinder is a service that allows you to create a study group online.

Every student knows how boring it is to study alone. You have a hard time concentrating and you have nobody to help you when you get stuck. ThinkBinder is a platform that allows you to study with your classmates, friends or anybody whom you think would make a perfect study buddy. Read more of this post

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MentorMob: Cut Out Internet Junk, Search for Relevant Content

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 14, 2012
MentorMob

MentorMob

MentorMob is a free platform that allows you to organize the best educational content from the Internet into an easy to use learning playlist. In other words, MentorMob makes online learning accessible and simple for the world.

The problem is not that in today’s world information is accessible all the time, but that good content gets lost in the heap of terrible content. Mostly, bad content is used to get on top of the search engine results while great content sometimes Read more of this post

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Medify- A helpful Resource to find Reliable Research Information in the Health Sector

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 31, 2011
Medify

Medify

Medify is the Wikipedia of the Health Sector. It makes your study interesting on any particular disease, its condition, research or treatments. Most of the times, we are unaware of many uncommon diseases and do not know how to manage the health of a patient. We may not know the number of patients suffering from that particular disease around the globe or any studies that were done on that subject or the latest conducted research and treatment on that disease. Sometime, these information can make a major difference in how we deal with our patients.

Medify brings you all the information, research work and treatments about conditions that you can easily access. It simplifies complex answers through charts and graphs so that you can, in a jiffy, know almost everything about a health problem so that you can know in which direction to proceed.

Making informed decisions is very important when health is concerned. Take, for example, asthma. Medify will tell you the total number of studies conducted till date, total number of patients studied, different views of experts on the disease, learning more about different treatments and compare treatments for asthma.

Medify makes it easy for you to grasp information by displaying the results of research in interactive graphics.

You can personalize your search by adding filters like the stage of your diagnosis or structured filters that are pre-populated. By clicking on a bubble, you can access more information such as the use of a treatment on a specific condition, the rank of a particular treatment for a particular condition, find the research by connecting directly to a list of studies and personalize your search by adding it to your binder.

Medify is a storehouse of medical information that is relevant for everybody. After all, nobody remains untouched by ill health. It is a one-stop resource for anybody wanting to know more about conditions, research work in healthcare and availability of treatments.

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Tutorhub – Online Tutoring Platform For School Going Kids

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 24, 2011

tutorhub logoTutorhub is an excellent UK based online tutoring platform focused on supporting school age kids with their homework. Tutorhub provides private one-to-one tutoring over the internet using instant messages which kids are familiar with and enjoy. All the tutors in Tutorhub are both CRB checked and experts in their chosen subjects and many of them are teacher and university graduate or undergraduate students. Tutors set their own rates based on their area of expertise. Parents can control their kids account if they wish and can view tutor’s performance on passed sessions.

Tutorhub‘s amazing web based learning platform is for both tutors and school going kids. Tutors can have a profile providing all the necessary information about the themselves such as name, charging rates, area of expertise etc.  Parents or kids can choose their tutor seeing tutor’s profile and select how much time they want to spend with the tutor. This way, people can easily get tutor from this website. If parents feel that tutoring session did not go as expected, there is a refund policy which is applicable if called withing 72 hours. According to Tutorhub, most of the tutors are available from 4 pm to 9 pm at weekdays and from 2 pm to 6 pm at weekends.

Another important feature of Tutorhub is, it provides the opportunity to ask free questions to all and answer to those questions. This helps people to learn many things by asking and answering. In addition, Tutorhub also provides necessary child safety features, so parents can be ensured about their child safety when they are using this platform and they can also report any inappropriate conversations. Tutors are allowed to get payment once a month and they can not request for payment until five weeks after the session.

Feature at a glance:

  • Create a free or paying account
  • Hourly charging rates
  • Payment once a month
  • Child safe design
  • Refund Policy

Finally, we can say that students can improve themselves doing homework, coursework, revising their study and other activity though proper use of this wonderful platform. So, we welcome you to try it yourself and let us know your feedback.

For more information, Learningfy and Kidzmet are two similar platform we have already reviewed about. You can also have a look at those two platforms and compare yourself.

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Youspeakit – Fantastic Online Platform For Learning English Language Easily

2 Comments Posted by on March 18, 2011

youspeakit-logoYouspeakit is a fantastic online platform for learning English language easily and attractively as well as with fun. Nonetheless there are lots of English languages learning platform but Youspeakit is distinguishable for its user’s interactivity and enormous resource.

Youspeakit lessons are categorized in various level such as easy, medium, advance and business level. You can choose any level to start your English learning. If you are not very good in English you should start from easy level.  Its video based interactive lesson not only ameliorates your English but also improve your English listening capably. Form resource tab you can also learn basic to advance level English language grammar as well as having lots of quizzes to pick up your grammar knowledge. Quizzes also help to evaluate your progress. From magazine section you will be able to read various magazines and regular reading practices to boost up reading ability. In TV section you will find some link of famous English Channel and that helps you recognize what language trend using in formal English speaking. Joining community on Youspeakit, you can post videos about English learning and able to send message to other members.  Moreover Youspeakit helps you to get resources from other members and you can share your resources with them.

All great features of Youspeakit at a glance:

  • Learning based on Videos
  • Develop your vocabulary
  • Exercise to evacuate your progress
  • Grammar learning

The beta version of Youspeakit is free for all and members can follow the videos lesson, grammar lessons and vocabulary section to develop their vocabulary easily. Youspeakit is proving great help to non-native English learners to learn English in an interactive way.

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Collaborize Classroom – A Free Online Learning Platform For Students And Teachers

1 Comment Posted by on February 9, 2011

Collaborize-Classroom-logoCollaborize Classroom is a wonderful innovative approach to help teachers to go beyond the boundaries of their physical classroom to interact with their students in an online collaborative learning environment. Collaborize Classroom offers a wide range of flexibilities for online discussion that are designed to support ground-breaking teaching and promotes higher level thinking skill to produce more powerful and innovative learning opportunities. Unlike other web based online education site, it offers great range of features making it a user friendly and easy to use educational broadcasting platform. This is a web-based application and thus does not need to be installed at you computer and can easily be access via personal URL from anywhere across the globe. The teacher student conversation is also very transparent, one can easily interact using various types of questions method including:

  • Multiple choice
  • Yes/No
  • Vote or Suggest
  • Forum

Some of the key features that we have identified are stated as follows:

  • Teacher can easily attach photo, videos, documents which in return the students can view directly
  • Teacher can send messages to his/her students via built in messaging service.
  • Teacher can view student participation report like number of logins, votes, comments, replies and many more to keep track of his/her student activities.
  • Custom build in search option for both teacher and student

It’s a wonderful site and we totally recommend it.

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Learningfy – Connects Teachers and Students Through Webcam Classes

1 Comment Posted by on January 29, 2011

Learningfy logoLearningfy is an online learning and teaching platform that allows students to get private tutor online and learn over Webcam classes. The idea behind the website is good enough and reduce geographical differences between students and teachers. It will also allow students to learn a wide variety of topics and skills remotely from teachers of different regions.

At Learningfy, a teacher can create $5 trial class of his/her choice. Then he can share his class with the world. If a prospective student find a teacher’s class interesting then he/she will order the class paying $5 fee. The class will take place on Webcam over the internet at a convenient time of both the teacher and the student. After the class, the student can submit his/her feedback or review about the instructor. When the class is successfully delivered, Learningfy will credit your balance with $4 and the teacher can withdraw the money using Paypal. After that initial success an instructor can create more customized classes on his/her own rates.

Learningfy provides SEO friendly teacher profile for each instructor where a teacher can highlight his/her expertise and publish his/her availability so that a prospective student can engage easily. Learningfy charges a flat rate of 20% for each class and price is always private between student and teacher to keep the competition low over price.

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