College Learning

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of college-level molecular biology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate molecular biology course.

From best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and expanded for the pandemic era. Combining vivid and powerful personal stories with deep, authoritative reporting, Paul Tough explains how we got into this mess and explores the innovative reforms that might get us out.

As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich.

AudioLearn’s College Level Courses presents College Level Archaeology. Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of Archaeology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate course in Archaeology. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are quizzes and key takeaways following each section to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

The College Devaluation Crisis makes the case that employers and other learning and development entities are emerging to innovate new approaches to training talent that, at times, relies on the higher education sector, but increasingly operates independently in order to satisfy talent needs more agilely and effectively. Targeted primarily toward managers, the book focuses on case studies from leading companies, including Google, Ernst & Young, IBM, and Marriott, to illustrate their innovative strategies for talent development across education, age, and background.

Getting into college is just as hard as figuring out how to pay for it. In this original audiobook, prospective students and their parents will learn how to think like informed consumers as you make this very important - and costly - decision. National expert, Reyna Gobel, MBA, provides you with money-saving processes to determine which colleges are right for you, which ones offer the best financial-aid package, and how to plan for this expense.

You must have heard stories of people who you think earn enough money to live comfortably but still find themselves in debt, living paycheck to paycheck, or having to take loans to meet up with their expenses. If you take the steps highlighted in this audiobook, you will be well prepared for that stress-free retirement. These steps are so simple anyone can do them, even if you feel you are disorganized.

For every college-failure-turned-success story, there are countless less-inspiring ones. The real reason why most people don’t make the grades they need or become so disheartened that they drop out of college early has nothing to do with the subject they’re studying or their drive to succeed…. It’s because they lack essential study skills and inside knowledge. Your courses focus on your subject—as they should…. But there’s a wealth of other information you’re missing out on that could make the difference between a pass and a fail.

After a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom experience and the most persuasive research in contemporary composition studies, he devised an innovative new framework: a step-by-step method that moves the student through a series of writing problems, an organic, bottom-up writing process that exposes and acculturates them to the ways writers work in the world.

Jack Edwards has spent the last three years figuring it all out and is here to impart his wisdom to other potential freshers. From university applications to socials, this book is filled with helpful tips and tricks, real advice and fun anecdotes and is perfect to turn to for any questions you have about university!

AudioLearn’s College Level Courses Presents Genetics. Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of college-level Genetics. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate Genetics course. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are quizzes and key takeaways following each section to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

For more than a decade, Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years—from senior year in high school through college graduation. Based on research and real life experience, and recommended by colleges and universities, Letting Go, Sixth Edition, has been updated and revised, offering even more insightful, practical, and up-to-date information.

Do you need listening practice for the TOEFL test? Have you taken the TOEFL iBT before and been disappointed by your score? TOEFL Listening Practice Tests by Exam SAM can help! The book contains three complete TOEFL listening practice tests. Each of our practice test has six tasks each, just like the real exam, so there are 18 listening tasks in total in the audiobook.

This CliffsNotes study guide on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, and critical commentaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.

Much more than a collection of cool tools and apps, The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction mobilizes decades of Visible Learning® research to reveal those evidence-based strategies that work best in an online environment. Supplemented by opportunities to self-assess and reflect, the book addresses every dynamic that must be in place for students to learn, even at a distance.

What does it take to embark on the journey towards a career in medicine? Dive into the world of aspiring medical professionals with our comprehensive guide, designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to conquer the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and pave the way for success in medical school. We unravel the mysteries of the MCAT through a series of engaging chapters that delve into the core subjects tested on the exam.

Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.

What does a college have to do with presidential elections? If it's the electoral college, a lot! Listeners will learn all about the electoral college and how it plays a part in our elections.

Law School. Those two little words are probably all you’ve been thinking about since you made the decision to become a lawyer. Good for you! If you’re seriously considering law school you know that there’s one big hurdle you still have to leap - in addition to graduating - the Law School Admissions Test. One of the more troubling questions you probably have on your mind is when - and how - to study for this oh so important test. Well, we have the answer.

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.