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Software4Students is an online program that provides academic software from leading software manufacturers to students. The program has been running since 2006 in the UK and Ireland. [citation needed] Full software versions from software companies such as Microsoft, Kaspersky and Adobe are available for students at discounted prices.
Website. www .naviance .com. Naviance is an American college and career readiness software provider that partners with high schools and other K–12 institutions to provide students with college planning and career assessment tools. The company reports that its products reach more than 7 million students at nearly 8,500 schools in 100 countries.
CampusBooks.com was founded by Alex Neal in 1998 during the height of the dot com boom. [1] The company started as an online textbook reseller. [3] In 2000, it changed its business model and became a textbook comparison shopping site. CampusBooks served over 1.5 million book price comparisons to students in 2007.
After ending services unrelated to renting and purchasing textbooks, [5] the company adjusted its business model to reflect that of Netflix's rental-based model, concentrating on renting textbooks to students, [6] [9] and Chegg expanded to a national market. [10] It later added goods and student services through corporate acquisitions. [10]
An unpublished computational program written in Pascal called Abra inspired this open-source software. Abra was originally designed for physicists to compute problems present in quantum mechanics. Kespers Peeters then decided to write a similar program in C computing language rather than Pascal, which he renamed Cadabra. However, Cadabra has ...
Average sticker price for tuition and fees. Average net price for tuition and fees. Private nonprofit four-year college. $41,540. $15,910. Public four-year college (out-of-state residents)
Celestia. Google Earth - (proprietary license) Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator. KGeography. KStars. NASA World Wind - free software ( NASA open source) Stellarium. Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America - a game that teaches geography to children. Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series.
The College Board reported that for the 2007-2008 academic year an average student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies. Making high quality open textbooks freely available to the general public could significantly lower college textbook costs and increase accessibility to such education materials.