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Caltech: Founding Values

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Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage! I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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How to Improve On-Time Tuition Payments

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These options allow private schools to expand student recruitment and help reduce tuition delinquency by increasing payers’ ownership of their tuition cycle. Having that contract roll from the school’s admissions software into its tuition management system helps eliminate chaos and confusion. Paul’s Episcopal Day School. “I

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

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His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software. The biggest turnout was one thousand students for my lecture to engineering and business students.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

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Benetech Labs is where the Benetech team and our social impact partners incubate new software-for-good applications. We established Benetech Labs because we needed the space and flexibility to explore new software-for-good ideas with the potential to successfully meet pressing social needs. Let me explain how this is so.

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New to TechSoup: Autodesk Design Suites

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Autodesk's advanced design software can be used to design buildings, infrastructure, products, entertainment content, and more. Autodesk is perhaps best known for its computer-aided design (CAD) software, AutoCAD. Autodesk's software requires a great deal of specialized design experience to use. What's Available?

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on. Jimmy explained it wasn’t software from the Internet; he had gotten it from his friend Chris who lived two doors down from us.

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Austria conference on access technology

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It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer. talking about their research. And that's just two examples.

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