2 websites every student should know about

The dynamics of education have changed with the information technology revolution, with students increasingly flocking to online resources for different educational purposes.

The inception of digital resources for education has had a tremendously productive effect on students which has resulted in accelerating returns in terms of output.

50 years in the past, this much productivity in education would have been unimaginable because of lack of digital resources.

The best that students could have at their disposal around that time, would have been a basic calculator. Even computers were off limits.

As to how it caused a low productivity was due to the fact that students had to repeatedly do mundane tasks that wasted a lot of their time which they could have used for concrete aspects of education.

Consider this, students that had learned integrals for instance and knew how to solve them and had quite a bit of practice, had to do them by hand every time they had to solve them.

Now you could argue that more and more practice improves learning of the concept at hand, but we argue that it's the case upto a certain point and not beyond that.

Beyond that, it becomes inefficient to keep doing stuff you’ve done 100s of times before. Fortunately, it’s no longer the case due to information technology that is greatly boosting academic productivity.

There are tons of free online apps and websites that help students with various aspects of education.

Some are learning oriented while others are functionally oriented. For instance, there are websites that provide online courses for students or conceptual knowledge through intuitive content.

On the other hand, there are websites and apps that serve the functional side of the spectrum, for instance, websites that provide students tools that are helpful in their academic life.

Tools like different calculators i.e integral calculator or chemical equation balancer for example or other applications like pdf tools i.e word to pdf converter.

The idea is to save students’ time for tasks that otherwise would take a significant amount of time.

With the context established, let’s move on to our top 2 picks for students now.

Calculatored

This website is a haven for math,statistics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Finance students. It packs so much punch with all the mathematical tools related to these subjects.

The website has a total of 125 different calculators that students can use for free in order to prepare for their exams or assignments.

The amount of time this website saves is really unthinkable. Imagine if you had to do all the 125 different kinds of calculations yourself, this would slow you down in terms of productivity.

Coursera

No website has democratized education like Coursera. With indiscriminate access to over 3000 courses, coursera ensures that it plays a positive role in spreading educational equality across the world.

All you really need is an internet connection for this website. If you’re low on budget then that's not a problem either. Since coursera offers over 1600 courses completely free.

Many people from different parts of the world have learned hard skills through these courses which have helped them get jobs or establish their own business.

In this aspect, coursera is not only contributing to global education but also indirectly, to the global economy.

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