 The best increase in accessibility to education in decades was online education. Online courses have been fairly traditional college courses offered for credit directly by universities which eliminated distance barriers to college enrollment.Massive Open Online Courses or MOOC's take online education to a new level offering the opportunity to learn to a much wider office accross institutions. MOOC's operate off of platforms like Coursera, edX and Udacity. Each platform makes it possible for multiple universities such as the Penn State University and the University of Tokyo to offer classes to a wider audience. |
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Whether a teen is behind in academics, activities or college prep, summer provides a second chance to catch up and move ahead. Parents should set summer goals with teens. At the very least, every teen should set a goal to read a minimum of six books over the summer. The best schools often require summer reading for a very good reason. Students who do not read over the summer actually lose what they gained during the school year.
For many high school seniors, there is little to do at this point but celebrate. Exempt from exams and only weeks from graduation, they are celebrating high school graduations plus college acceptances. Most think there is little to do now but go shopping for dorm decor.
Financial aid offers are in for fall 2013 and parents are surprised by the gap between the financial aid offer and the bill for the freshman year. Families manage to pay the difference through a variety of strategies. 
Facing multiple tantalizing college offers, how does a teen decide which college offer of admission to accept? Hopefully, with the assistance of family members, the soon-to-be high school graduate is weighing the pros and cons of each offer and not letting emotion decide.