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The health care industry is growing, generating serious job potential for anyone smart enough to ride that wave. (Thank you, baby boomers!) Not sure you are a scrubs kind of person? Fear not: There are a number of medical careers that require little to no actual patient care, like medical billing and coding. Sure, "I'm a medical billing and coding specialist" is a mouthful, but the field's perks more than make up for a little tongue tie. Here are […]

Former news anchor Tom Brokaw once said, "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." The man knows his stuff. While most of us work in our lifetimes, very few of us become real-world super heroes. That doesn't mean we can't accomplish both. With a little training -- and a lot of passion -- you can make a difference and a living, all at the same time. Here are six careers to help you […]

Did your last IV feel like a game of pin the tail on the donkey? While that scenario makes YOU feel like the ass, it's your nurse who should've been better prepared.

In addition to a gentle demeanor and perhaps a steady hand, the key to entering the nursing field is the right education. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts a 22 percent increase in nursing jobs from 2008 to 2018, a college degree, coupled with solid hands-on training, […]

A sociology professor at California State University at San Marcos turned to advanced mapping technology to help her students learn about themselves and their communities, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Hoping to prod her students into reflecting on how racial and ethnic identities shape their lives, associate professor Theresa Suarez taught them to superimpose demographic data about race and ethnicity onto maps of their local communities. Using digital pushpins, they then marked the places where they shopped, worked, went […]

"There's an app for that!" has become a pop culture catchphrase, and for good reason. Mobile applications, or application software designed to run on smartphones and other handheld devices, have taken the modern world by storm. App development has become a real career path, and now one college is offering degree programs specializing in mobile apps.

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With the U.K.'s IT and telecom industry in need of recruits, and underprepared IT graduates struggling to find jobs, companies including IBM have pitched in to help create new degree programs that they say will give IT graduates the skills they'll need in the workplace, reports Computerworld-UK.

The two new distance-learning degrees in IT and computing at the U.K.'s Open University were developed in partnership with a technology-sector skills association. Representatives of IBM, Logica and Capgemini […]

Although online education knows no borders, some countries have taken to it more quickly than others. Australia’s University of Southern Queensland has launched a fully online specialized degree program in education that it says is the first in the nation.

“Students can study on-campus at Toowoomba, Fraser Coast or Springfield, or study externally from anywhere in Australia or overseas,” said Associate Professor Ken Edwards of the new Bachelor of Education (Sport, Health and Physical Education) program. The program will make […]

Online degrees in computer science can range drastically in price, a recent survey found. Consumer research group GetEducated.com recently posted its list of the most affordable online computer science master's degree programs, Digital Journal reported in June 2011. East Carolina University came in first, with residents paying only $4,860 for an online master's degree. While distance learning programs are typically available to students nationwide, out-of-state tuition was markedly more expensive with students paying $20,040 for the same degree. […]