Struggling with homework or critical science project in hand? The World Wide Web could be your ideal personal assistant to address back to school blues. Here is a roundup of websites to ease and address different challenging phases of student life. Keep these top websites bookmarked and handy to search information to grasp a complex topic, to search for epub or PDF copies of books to save money on textbooks, to get ideas and tips on financial matters, jobs, coupons and discounts, university details, and to deal with bullies.
1. OpenCourseWare Consortium
In 2002, MIT created OpenCourseWare to publish their courses online and later, they came up with the OpenCourseWare Consortium by partnering with other universities to bring online access to free education. Whenever you are searching for a course, the fastest and easiest way to find that is through OpenCourseWare Consortium. It has a vast range of courses from more than 22 universities including MIT, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, University of Michigan and many more, with subjects ranging from architecture, business, physics, economics, engineering among others.
2. Textbook Revolution and Chegg
Planning to save bank balance by sourcing epub or PDF copies of textbooks? Then, keep Textbook Revolution and Chegg bookmarked at your browser. Textbook Revolution has a massive database of free textbooks which you can browse by subjects. Similarly, Chegg let back to school students rent textbooks for a particular term to help them alleviate expenses of buying textbooks. You can also resort this website to buy used books at much lesser rates than new books. And, you can also sell the book at the end of the term at Chegg.
3. Prevent Bullying Now and Teach Anti Bullying, INC.
Occurrences of bullying in school and college campuses are the toughest part of back to school campus life. That’s why we have picked these two sites Prevent Bullying Now and Teach Anti Bullying to aid students and families in preventing and cope up with bullying blues. The Prevent Bullying Now offers effective tips from Dr. Kathy Seifert, prominent bullying expert of America on how to stop and address situations that are happening. Teach Anti Bullying provides support to students and families in handling bullying that occur in schools and communities.
In addition to these top websites, we recommend back to school students to bookmark these following sites
4. Purdue Online Writing Lab – Purdue OWL is a top educational website for formatting research papers irrespective of any college or student you are studying in. This site offers all the formatting details, tips on writing and a Google-powered search engine to search for tutorials.
5. Mint – Get a complete picture of your banking and credit accounts and how much you should spend in back to school essentials. You can download Mint apps from the site.
6. Glassdoor – Get detailed advice and research on careers, employers, industries and in sending resume.