Northstar Digital Literacy is a self-directed assessment and learning tool that covers a variety of technology scenarios for anyone looking to improve their skills with computers, software, or technology. It comes complete with short lessons and practice exercises to improve skills on a number of common computer topics.
Choose from thousands of online courses to learn in-demand skills from real-world industry experts. Professional development, web design, marketing, coding and software skills, audio recording and editing, photography, and more.
Formerly Lynda.com
Offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. Includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.
For professional educators, this database provides a specialized collection of high quality education journals and educational reports.
Take practice tests, search for jobs, post your resume.
Practice tests for licensing exams (Civil Service, Allied Health, ASVAB, etc.) and academics (SAT, ACT, GRE, MCAT, etc) are found in the Assessment and Training section. You can use access practice tests anonymously, or register/sign in to save your progress and results.
Authoritative research-level medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Free resource for finding job opportunities. No LinkedIn account/profile required. However, having a LinkedIn profile helps you identify personal connections in each job posting, know if a company has hired people like you, and find out who you will work with if you get the job.
Find "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.
