From research to languages and from organizational abilities to the basic maths and sciences, iPhone has an app for it all. The following list of 25 free iPhone apps for e-learners offers the most basic and essential tools for anyone who wants to learn on the go — and, these apps can prove essential in earning your online degree or in obtaining a job once you’ve earned your degree.

The list below is categorized, and each app is linked to a page at Apple app store or to the company that produces the free app. The links are listed alphabetically by the app name within each category.

Research

1. Associated Press: Get the news anytime and anywhere from the AP news agency that is everywhere at once. Use this app to stay on top of news as well as to learn more about various topics from a local to international level.
2. iDictionary: Enter any word to get definitions from up to 16 dictionaries at once. Tap once to expand long definitions, and tap again to close the search. The new version has searched word linked to the Thesaurus and to a Rhymes app.
3. iQ Mobile Search: Use this app to find answers through popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Amazon.com, eBay, Wikipedia, Flickr and more. Country support available for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.
4. Powerset Wikipedia Search: Use this free app to enter keywords, phrases or questions and find answers to your search at Wikipedia articles. This app also enhances Wikipedia articles with features that help you read the article, and an outline helps you to navigate directly to the section you need within that article.
5. Reader: Recoded from scratch, this new eBook reader app functions completely offline. Open Reader, sync with your account and launch books instantly. All of your books are always available on your book shelf and can be easily opened with a single touch.
6. uGuX Multi Search Engine: Type a search query, then select a search engine. This app provides users with multiple ways to find the answer to a query.

Languages

7. Five A Day: Improve your vocabulary by practicing five words per day. This app improves listening, speaking, reading and writing as well.
8. Instant Translate: Translate Spanish, French, Italian, German, and more to and from English instantly as you type. The translation appears as you type without a need to press a button.
9. Learn 10: power up your language: This app is updated daily with 10 new words to learn in up to 20 different languages. Listen to videos and recordings from native speakers, play a score game that you can post to their scoreboard.
10. Mobile Glot Translation Dictionary: This free translation dictionary was designed exclusively for the iPhone. it contains the ability to translate six languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch and Swedish, along with spelling suggestions, verb conjugations and top 10 lists.
11. Spanish V: Learn five basic Spanish words per day, including numbers, animals, body parts and much more.
12. Translate2Go: If you can get online, you can translate using LEC’s browser-based online translation service. Fast, easy, affordable translation of documents, emails, web pages, blogs, and instant messages (IM) in 21 languages is as close as the Internet.

Organization and Productivity

13. Evernote: Use this tool to take photos of white boards, business cards and other objects or simply use it to store notes and recordings and synchronize all this information with your Mac or Windows desktop.
14. Google Mobile: Use this app to gain access to maps, search, Gmail, YouTube, Buzz and many more Google tools. It’s like having your desktop on your phone.
15. Noter2: This amazing little app allows users to create, share, email and sync notes between users and other computers. Manage appointments, notes and more with this simple application.
16. Voice Memos: You don’t need to look far for this app, as it comes standard with iPhones. This is a top-drawer voice recorder for notes or lectures, and you can transfer all the audio onto your computer.
17. Zoho Office Suite: This app offers six online applications including email, calendar, word processor, spreadsheet and presentation and database applications for the iPhone.

Sciences and Math

18. Analog Scientific Calculator: This retro calculator replicates the Mannheim Slide Rule used by scientists, engineers and students for over a century.
19. Chemical Elements: View all the chemical elements in two interfaces with general features of all the elements included.
20. iFXRates Currency Conversion Calculator: Use this app to calculate currency conversion rates between the most popular currencies. Calculate currency conversion rates between the most popular currencies.
21. Physics Dictionary: Tap into definitions and meanings of common terms. A quick reference which is useful for Physics exams and tests.
22. PhysOrg.com Science and Technology News: Learn about physics, earth science, medicine, nanotechnology, electronics, space, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics and other sciences and technologies through this powerful free app.
23. Scientific Calculator: This easy-to-use calculator contains advanced functions — cosine, sine, tangent, square root, exponents and more.
24. Unit Converter: This app contains the most common units of measurement used in the United States and Europe, for area, speed, distance, temperature, volume and more.
25. Weighted Attribute Balance Evaluator: This app allows users to make decisions based upon comparative analysis by listing weighting or valuing pros and cons on a single grid.

This list is divided into those three categories, and each link within those categories is listed alphabetically. The links lead straight to the recently updated blogs, and the descriptions supply information about that blogger’s achievements, including careers and jobs.

Movers

1. Always Learning: Kimberly Cofino is in her ninth year of teaching technology in international schools around the world.
2. Artichoke: Peering into the artichoke for better models and designs for teaching and learning.
3. Confessions of an Aca-Fan: Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
4. Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Vicki A. Davis Talks about teaching content with new tools, enthusiasm and the “belief that teaching is a noble calling…”
5. Creating Lifelong Learners: Mathew Needleman is the founder of nearly twenty popular educational destinations on the internet and he offers practical tips for elementary teachers in teaching traditional and new media literacy.
6. Digital Writing, Digital Teaching: Troy Hicks, an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University, explores the variety of issues related to teaching writing with new media for K-16 teachers and teacher educators.
7. dy/dan: Dan Meyer enjoys graphic design, filmmaking, motion graphics, and infographics, most of which have found their way into his math teaching in some way or another.
8. education + emergent literacies: Melanie McBride is a Canadian educator, consultant and speaker specializing in Web 2.0 social and participatory media strategy for education and publishing.
9. Generation YES Blog: This is the official voice of Generation YES, a company that facilitates change in schools that are interested in their potential as inclusive learning communities.
10. Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: Kathy posts thoughts, discoveries, and ideas here as she discovers them, primarily on educational technology topics.
11. Looksee Fishy Fish: Marcie Hull works as an educator at SLA, one of Philadelphia’s newer high schools in partnership with the Franklin Institute.
12. Practical Theory: Chris Lehmann is the principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia.
13. Sue Waters Blog: Sue Water’s passion for technology has lead to her transition from aquaculture lecturer to her current role as editor of The Edublogger and working for Edublogs as community facilitator.
14. Teach 42: Steve Dembo currently works for Discovery Education, serving as the Online Community Manager for the Discovery Educator Network.
15. The Story of My “Second Life”: This is one K-20 educator’s grant-funded immersion into and exploration of the “Second Life” (SL) experience to validate that 3D world of SL is the future of the web.
16. The Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht is interested in administration but more interested in leadership and how he, one person, can help educators prepare students for an unknown future.
17. think:lab: Considering ideas, environments & tools that shape the future of learning & engagement.
18. Weblogg-ed: Will Richardson is “Learner in Chief” at Connective Learning and the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.

Shakers

19. Absence of Limitations: Through over two decades of IT experience, Mr. Klein has become widely renowned as an aggressive technology leader, particularly in the areas of open source and social media.
20. Blue Skunk Blog: Doug Johnson is the Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato (MN) Public Schools since 1991 and has served as an adjunct faculty member of Minnesota State University since 1990.
21. Clive on Learning: Clive Shepherd is a consultant with an interest in all aspects of technology-assisted learning and communication.
22. Connectivism and elearnspace: George Siemens is founder and president of Complexive Systems Inc., a research lab assisting organizations to develop integrated learning structures for global strategy execution.
23. David Warlick’s 2 Cents Worth: David, a 34-year educator, opens himself up to criticism, deconstruction, recombination and more as he offers his ideas and an occasional widget.
24. Drape’s Takes: Darren Draper is the director of technology services for the Canyons School District. This blog contains his takes on the world of educational technology.
25. edu.blogs.com: Ewan is one of Europe’s foremost experts in digital media for public services, particularly in education.
26. Ideas and Thoughts: Dean Shareski is a digital learning consultant with the Prairie South School Division in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. He specializes in the use of technology in the classroom.
27. Leigh Blackall: Leigh specializes in developing open educational resources and practices, facilitating online courses, and developing educational uses of social media.
28. OLDaily: Stephen Downes works for the National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He specializes in online learning, content syndication, and new media.
29. Open Thinking: Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina.
30. The Fischbowl: Karl Fisch currently is the Director of Technology at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado.
31. The Strength of Weak Ties: David Jakes’ interests in educational technology include digital storytelling, the application of geography-based systems for learning, and developing online communities of learning through blogging, wiki and other connective technologies.

On the Ground

32. Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Steven Anderson is a teacher, and he was one of the first recipients of the NOW Award, recognizing the “Movers and Shakers” in the world of Social Media at the 2009 #140 Conference in Los Angeles.
33. Educational Technology: Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield, has published this blog daily since 2002.
34. EduWonk: Delivering educational news, analysis and commentary since 2004. Andrew Rotherham is the writer, and he is co-founder and publisher of Education Sector, as well.
35. Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF is a small, grassroots legal advocacy nonprofit supported by member contributions. They provide pro bono legal assistance in cases where they believe they can help shape the law.
36. Free Technology for Teachers: Richard Byrne, a Google-certified teacher, offers reviews of free technology resources and how teachers can use them.
37. iLearn Technology: This is an edublog about integrating technology into the classroom.
38. Infinite Thinking Machine: Through an active blog, an Internet TV show, and other media resources, the ITM shares a “bazillion practical ideas” for turning the infinite universe of information into knowledge.
39. Information Wants To Be Free: Meredith Farkas is head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont and is an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science.
40. mLearnopedia: Judy Brown has been involved in technology for learning for over 25 years and with mobile learning since 1996. She currently works on mobile learning with the Immersive Learning Technology Team at ADL.
41. Moving at the Speed of Creativity: Wesley Fryer is a digital learning consultant, author, digital storyteller, educator and change agent. He uses this particular blog to teach others about available resources and how to use them.
42. Nik’s Learning Technology Blog: You can find tips, resources and teaching materials to help EFL and ESL teachers use ICT and new technology at this blog.
43. Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog: This blog is all about teaching and learning using 21st-century tools. Be sure to stay on top of this blog’s daily picks.
44. ResearchBuzz: This blog has been around a long time (since 1998), and it covers the world of search engines, databases, and other online information collections.
45. Teachers Teaching Teachers: This blog follows a weekly Webcast on the EdTechTalk channel of the WorldBridges network.
46. TechTicker: Mike Bogle, educational technologist at the University of New South Wales, offers a blog that’s all about educational technology, e-learning and emerging technology.
47. The Education Technology Blog: Jonathan Wylie, an elementary school teacher, focuses on relevant news for teachers who use technology.
48. The Rapid E-Learning Blog: Great tips for teachers and students on learning, learning online and on using online tools for learning.
49. The Whiteboard Blog: Danny Nicholson is a freelance educational consultant who focuses on the use of interactive whiteboards. This blog shows various ways to use those tools effectively in teaching and learning.
50. Using ICT in Further Education: Patricia Donaghy is an ICT Teacher in Dublin, Ireland, and her blog focuses on resources that are freely available on the Internet and which may be used in education.

Law Student Blogs

Law is one of the most challenging subjects. If you are looking for help through law school, these blogs can help you.

1. JD Law Students Blog: Different JD candidates at Vermont Law School share their thoughts on being law students.
2. On a Case by Case Basis: This Boston College law student shares insights on life and law.
3. A New Kid on the Hallway: Look at the ups and downs of law school, and learn how to cope.
4. Non Traditional Law Student: An interesting look at what it’s like to be a non traditional law student.
5. First Movers: A look at the opinions of tomorrow’s legal scholars.
6. Dissenting in Part: A law student’s look at how politics and religion intersect with law.
7. Law is Cool: This law student offers information on law school and issues in Canada.
8. Nuts & Boalts: Stories from law students at the University of Berkeley.
9. Social Media Law Student: Shares insights with an emphasis on the legal issues surrounding the rise of social media.
10. Law Student: Law students share ideas, videos and tips about working on a JD.
11. Butterflyfish: This mom just barely finished law school. You can read about her adventures in finishing law school in the archives.
12. Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: This blog stopped with new posts in August 2006 when the author finished his law degree. However, you can’t beat the three years’ worth of archives that can help you in law school.

MBA Student Blogs

Business graduate students face their own set of challenges. Here are some insights from students who are working on their MBAs and hoping to be the next business leaders of America.

13. Andrew Choi: Offers insight into getting a health care MBA, and interesting ways to interact.
14. MBA for HairTwirler: A sort-of off beat MBA student. Offers insight into being an MBA student, and what to do when you are done.
15. One Man Band: This MBA student also enjoys music and shares insights about both subjects.
16. Wharton MBA for Executives: These Wharton MBA students share insights into the challenges and triumphs of being a business graduate.
17. JulyDream: Learn about life and more from this MBA student at Darden.
18. This is Not About Me: Learn about life at Darden as Jackie wors on her MBA.
19. Inside HBS: Get an inside view of Harvard Business School from an MBA student.
20. Comfortably Dumb: Another Darden student shares the ins and outs of working toward an MBA.
21. sync: Another Harvard business graduate shares what it’s like to earn an MBA.

Medical Student Blogs

Learn about what it takes to make it in med school. These students go through the difficulties with you, and can provide insights in staying sane.

22. Defying Gravity: Learn about life in medical school in Glasgow, Scotland.
23. Michelle vs the Med Student: Learn about life as a med student, and the sort of work it takes to succeed.
24. Restless Med Student: Insight into medicine and life as one tries to complete a medical education.
25. Dose of Reality: The University of Michigan Medical School has students blogging and sharing their thoughts and tips.
26. Plotzk: Get inside the head of a med student in NYC, trying to live it up while still becoming a doctor.
27. Ahhhh…Medical School. We Meet At Last.: This med student is just about done, and you can read about her adventures while learning to be an M.D.
28. Ah Yes, Medical School: Learn about the freaks one med students meets as she works her way through the system.
29. CCLCM Student Blog: Learn about getting through med school from this student at the Cleveland Lerner College of Medicine.
30. Half MD: While this blog just put up its last post, there are still very valuable archives going back two years.

Humanities and Social Sciences Student Blogs

Learn about life in humanities and social sciences, from psychology to education to history to English to communications and more, learn about being a grad student in these areas.

31. Vox Populi: A Forum for English Grad Students at Princeton: Contributions from English grad students about life and school.
32. Kesmit.com: A grad student in emerging media and communication offers insights into life and communications.
33. UNL Political Science Graduate Student Blog: A look at political science from a grad student perspective.
34. PhD Blog Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences: A look into the happenings of a grad student studying social sciences.
35. History Graduate Students: Various students in history offer insight, news and advice on grad school.
36. Life of a Psychology Ph.D. Student: This blog hasn’t been updated in a while, but it has several years of archives from a student working on a Ph.D.

Physical Sciences Student Blogs

When you work in the physical sciences, including physics, chemistry, engineering, astronomy and more, you have a lot of interesting work to do — and some seriously hard work to get through. Also included here are math grad students, since math is a huge part of physical science.

37. AMS Graduate Student Blog: Math graduate students share their thoughts and insights about school and career prospects.
38. Adventures of a Grad Student: This math Ph.D. student is interested in a number of subjects, including martial arts and dancing.
39. Undulations: This blog is written by a physics grad student who is also a belly dancer.
40. Saket Vora: Learn about the life of an engineering grad student.
41. Survival Blog for Scientists: Learn how to cope with being a scientist in graduate school.
42. Green Gabbro: Maria recently completed a graduate degree in earth science, and her insights are useful and interesting.
43. Michael Nielson: This recent grad student still has great insights into physics and being a student.
44. Miss Atomic Bomb: This post-doc offers helpful insights into science graduate school, and struggling on beyond the Ph.D.

Arts Student Blogs

Learn about what it’s like to get an advanced degree related to the arts, usually in the form of a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). A lot of interesting stories and information in these blogs.

45. Grad Student Madness: These graduate students look at art and culture.
46. MFA Blog: Learn about what it’s like to get a Master’s of Fine Arts — especially in creative writing.
47. A Photo Student: Working on a graduate photography MFA degree, and all that comes with it.
48. PennDesign MFA Forum: Get insight from a number of MFA students at Penn.
49. Fashion School Daily: Fashion design grad students share interesting photos and thoughts about school.
50. Chatham GRADUATE Student Blog: Students at Chatham share their insights and tips regarding advanced degrees in the arts.

The following list is divided into categories that include search engines, directories, bookmarking services and collections. Each link within those categories is listed alphabetically for your convenience.

Search Engines

Beyond Google, these search engines offer some services you may find useful as a scholar.

1. Boolify: This is a great search engine for beginners to use, as visuals are used to create Boolean strings. Results for a search for ‘opencourseware’ are produced real-time under the visual search engine.
2. Carrot2: What appears to be a simplistic search engine may amaze you. Type in “opencourseware”, hit “search,” and enjoy an organized search result that includes categories.
3. eyePlorer: Drag a term into the search box to learn more about various research topics.
4. Google Scholar Beta: Use this search engine to find scholarly papers and journals.
5. INFOMine: This is the search engine you need if you’re seeking scholarly resource collections in a wide variety of topics.
6. Intute: UK universities and their partners created this free online search service with access to education and research resources.
7. MelZoo: If you type “opencourseware” into this Meta search engine, it offers “visual previews” of search results as well as a list of results.
8. Middlespot: Use this search engine to visually discover, collect and organize your scholarly searches with search tools such as annotations, tags and more.
9. OCWFinder: The OpenCourseWare Finder is a search engine that looks specifically for OpenCourseWare classes by topic.
10. Quintura: Search for ‘opencourseware’ by Web, images and video with this search engine and use the result to embed in a Web site or share it with colleagues.
11. stHrt: Pronounced “start,” this search engine is a world into itself. Create a homepage filled with OpenCourseWare site or other sites that you need on a continuous basis.
12. Viewzi: Use this search engine for a visual clue to various OpenCourseWare projects. Just type ‘opencourseware’ into the site to view all available resources visually.
13. World Public Library: Use this search engine to do a full-text search of over 75,000 HTML eBooks.

Directories and Archives

Use these directories to discover new topics and resources.

14. 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos: While some links might prove outdated on this directory, it still provides one of the most comprehensive lists of open courseware around.
15. A World of Ideas: This site catalogs video and audio lectures on academic topics according to discipline, theoretician and topic.
16. Archive Grid: Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to this site.
17. Directory of Open Access Journals: This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
18. Fathom: Use this source for online learning. Provided by Columbia University, it offers a complete range of free content developed for Fathom by member institutions.
19. iBerry: While this site provides an academic directory, it also focuses on networks that hope to bring inexpensive education to anyone in the world.
20. Internet Archive: Scholars can find archived Web sites, moving images, texts, audios and more at this useful site.
21. Open Courseware Consortium: Find all institutions that are members or who cooperate with the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
22. Self Made Scholar: This portion of the Self Made Scholar site offers a directory of all OpenCourseWare resources.
23. Stingy Scholar’s University Podcasts, Webcasts & OCWs: This mashup shows a map of all university podcasts, Webcasts and OCWs.

Social Bookmarking Services

The following bookmarking services focus on services beyond the mere collection of URLs. Look for note-taking abilities and collaboration capabilities.

24. 2Collab: Share, connect and discuss relevant research with peers with this collaboration and bookmarking tool.
25. BlogMarks: BlogMarks is a collaborative link management project based on sharing and key-word tagging.
26. diigo: Save links and build a personal learning network at the same time. This is a powerful tool that also allows users to annotate, archive and organize your online searches.
27. Faves: This is a social bookmarking service that allows you to collaborate and find people and topic groups.
28. gl*am: This service not only bookmarks URLs for you, it can shorten those URLs, store an inifinit amount of those URLs into one link group, and allows you to take notes and share those links.
29. Gnolia: This is a re-launched site based upon the old Magnolia. For now, membership is by invitation only with former members given priority.
30. Netvouz: Organize your bookmarks in folders and tag each bookmark with keywords. Access them quickly on your own personalized bookmarks page.
31. Only2Clicks: This bookmarking site is both useful and intriguing, as it contains numerous features that may become addicting.
32. ShareTabs: Store, organize and share links as tabs. Open one tab to reveal all links within that tab.
33. Sitemark: Save, organize, share and discover Web sites with this tool.
34. Tizmos: With Tizmos, you can open your browser on any computer, go to Tizmos.com and see the sites you usually check and get to them easily.
35. Viewista: This bookmarking tool actually helps you build a personal search engine. Collect URLs and view them as a slide show or in various formats.
36. Web2Wave: Create an account to gather thematic URLs, attach notes and transmit or share your collections with colleagues.

Collections

If all else fails, use the following links to go straight to the sources of some top-level OpenCourseWare sites. Be sure to bookmark them so you can return to them at any time.

37. Capilano University OpenCourseWare: This site offers online free courses for faculty, students and self-learners.
38. Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative: This set of OpenCourseWare courses is offered by Carnegie Mellon.
39. Center for the Study of the Public Domain: This set of videos, podcasts, lectures and modules is offered by Duke Law.
40. Columbia Interactive: This is your gateway to selected electronic learning resources developed at Columbia University.
41. Gresham College: Enjoy a series of lectures on various topics offered by Gresham College.
42. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: This site carries Johns Hopkins’ most popular courses on health, disease and disease prevention.
43. MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the originator for OpenCourseWare, offers more online free classes than any other university or college.
44. Notre Dame OpenCourseWare: Notre Dame offers a growing resource of free courses for faculty, students and self-learners.
45. Open Michigan: This is a University of Michigan initiative to create and share knowledge, resources, and research with the global learning community.
46. Open University: The OpenLearn Web site offers free access to Open University course materials.
47. Open UW: Enjoy these free online courses from the University of Washington.
48. Tufts OpenCourseWare: Tufts shares medical and online resources with a global community through courses and materials.
49. UCIrvine: The University of California, Irvine, offers a continually growing resource of free courses online.
50. Utah State OpenCourseWare: Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses.

TweetDeck
This is on one of the most popular Twitter applications that can be used by anyone irrespective of their profession and area of working. However, for teachers it plays significant role to remain connected with students for communication and teaching purposes. It helps one to be connected across Twitter, Facebook and other utilities. It is an Adobe Air Desktop application.

Twit Tangle
This tool is very helpful for teachers as they can rate their students as well as their friends and associates on basis of merit and put some of the best on the top to have quick and easy communication with the selected list.  More, this tool can offer is the selected list of filtered tweets which are more important to you than any other things.

TweetBackup
As teacher when you are delivering something important to your students as in form of tweets and at the same time students being sometimes careless may not lose instructions provided by you, can have backup of your Tweets at TweetBackup that provide great utility in time of emergency. This application restores daily backup of the Tweets.

Email Twitter
Using this utility Twitter updates can be send out on email with the respective post.

iTweetReply
After using itweetreply the direct replies are send to your email in real time without absorbing much time. It is developed with objective to inform you through a notification any activity about you on Twitter.

Splitweet
This application is provided with objective of maintaining multiple accounts so as to keep distinction between educational and personal accounts. Apart from its utility for educational purposes it can also be used for monitoring a brand.  As functionality, it puts all your account at a place then follows contact’s tweet in an easy manner.

Followize
This tool is provided with utilities to read out all of your tweets in efficient and fast way at a single interface. As its stripped down page is specifically is designed for Mobile phones to manage Twitter account with ease on a portable device.

Twazzup
For information which is posted over online social communities like Twitter one can use a search facility to filter the results which they want thus facilitating themselves with relevant data for their study. These facilities offer real time search features which help the user obtain the most current information on the item for which they are searching. Twazzup is a most formidable feature in this sense getting real time feeds from the Twitter timeline on the information desired. Twazzup has a nice interface that is quite friendly to the user and does not necessarily require registration.

Digg
Digg is a social bookmarking feature that is used for the sharing of interesting links and news-worthy information. A user registers to this service giving their bio and interests and the service matches up people who have the same interests as your own. The user is thus able to keep tabs on the latest information coming up in their field of interest. Their site contains titles recommended by users, featured stories and shows recently posted comments.

OneNote
For the search of design features or rather any form of text that catches your imagination, one may use OneNote. This service is offered in a normal and a premium account which has more features i.e. a larger storage space is offered. The service offers both mobile and desktop services; the mobile service however needs special authentification for one to begin using it.

Happn.in
One can also keep in touch with important events happening in their vicinity via sites which keep tabs on what is happening in your states as well as showing updates of people attending these events from several online social sites. Happn.in lets you configure your calendar using their site therefore scheduling your attendance in advance. You are able to know people in your network who are attending the event or follow the happenings from afar as you contribute to the update stream.

MIT
The MIT site also offers a range of good services for anyone interested in getting information in their field of interest. Educational courses on this site only require your participation and do not demand payment. The user is therefore able to gain exposure as they involve in innovative projects and sharing across cultures. This site offers virtual classrooms, notes and necessary tutorials for student’s use.

Possession of a Bachelor’s degree could not be a comfort to some professionals. With that discomfort, here comes the opportunity of enrolling for an online master’s degree. This will depend on where your specialty lies, for instance if you are a teacher; you have the opportunity to specialize in a MAT or MIT degree which will hold you as a qualified specialist in teaching. Some teachers would wish to prosper to higher administrative positions and therefore the best online degree is M.Ed, MSW is also bets suited for social workers, MFA for fine Arts and others like Masters of Science, Masters of Arts among others.

You do not have to worry much about the time that you are going to take to enroll for your Master’s degree, unlike the typical Master’s program that takes two years, the online Master’s program really depends on how much time you are going to allocate it. With a lot of devotion, this period can be shortened to 12 to 18 months. Several online programs are made to commence on monthly basis rather than the onset of a semester. This grants you the convenience to start the program.

The involvement in a Master’s program is quite demanding and this calls for self sacrifice in research and writing. The coursework therefore is more or less an internship or thesis. If you are undertaking the program that entails internship, then the course work calls for a little or no pay but you should bear in mind that this is meant to make you gain a proper understanding in your field of specialty.

It should not be taken for granted that the further you have achieved professionally it is unworthy to go for more but rather, this increases you chances of attracting employers as well as excellent salaries e.g. therapists.