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Abstract

This article introduces the educational solutions module (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/education.html) of the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site (http://www.triplacc.com/), describing competitive offerings, the customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target markets, and product offerings. It concludes that the module is a major contribution to the information superhighway.

Introduction

The aim of this article is to introduce to the world the educational solutions module (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/education.html) of the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site (http://www.triplacc.com/). The article is addressed to those readers who may have an educational problem bogging them and who may therefore be looking for a way out of their predicament. The reader may be a parent, child, or student.

It is a common fact of life that we all have problems and that we are often frustrated or we tend to lash out because of our inability to find accessible and reliable information about our problems. This specialist site fills this need – as our pragmatic friend for solving our educational problems.

The approach that we have adopted below is to describe competitive offerings, the customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target markets, product offerings, and usability features.

Competitive Offerings

The following are the top educational sites on the Internet, along with their offerings.

US Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml). It defines the US education policy and provides information on financial aid, educational research and statistics, grants and contracts, and teaching and learning resources.

Educational Testing Service. It provides a range of test resources.

FunBrain.com (http://www.funbrain.com/). It provides educational games for K-8 kids.

PrimaryGames.com (http://www.primarygames.com/). It provides fun learning tools and games for kids.

GEM (http://www.thegateway.org/). It provides educational resources such as lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources.

Education World (http://www.education-world.com/). It provides advice on lesson plans, professional development, and technology integration.

NASA Education Enterprise (http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html). It provides educational materials and information relating to space exploration.

Spartacus Educational (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/). It is a British online encyclopedia that focuses on historical topics.

Department for Education and Skills (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/). It is a UK government department site that offers information and advice on various educational and skills topics.

Times Educational Supplement (http://www.tes.co.uk/). It offers teaching news, teaching & educational resources, and active forums to help UK teachers.

All these sites are useful in the domains that they cover. Their main limitations are as follows:

1.They tend to cover only a very narrow segment of the educational market.

2.They do not take as their starting point the daily educational needs of the typical family.

3.They lack a problem focus; i.e., they do not formulate the typical learning and educational problems that pupils, students, and parents face on a daily basis.

4.As a result of the preceding point, the solutions offered are not as incisive (i.e. as problem-centred) as they could be.

5.They do not offer merchant products that deepen the visitor’s understanding of her problem and of the consequent solutions.

The educational solutions module (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/education.html) of the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site (http://www.triplacc.com/) addresses these problems by targeting a multiplicity of market segments, adopting a customer profile that fits the typical education-pursuing family, considering the specific needs or problems that this family may face, offering incisive (problem-centred) solutions to the various problems, and offering a range of merchant products that deepen the visitor’s appreciation of her problems and of the solutions that are applicable to them.

Customer Profile

The customer profile or target visitor characteristics of the educational solutions module (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/education.html) is the same as for all specialist sites of the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site (http://www.triplacc.com/). The site has been designed to meet the needs of visitors who have an educational problem bogging them. It is designed for both males and females, even though it is often convenient to refer to just one sex when writing.

This visitor uses search engines to research information about her personal or professional problem, with the intention of finding solutions to it. The visitor is serious about solving her problem and is therefore willing to buy products that help her to achieve her mission, provided that she can find reliable and honest information about relevant products so that she can make an informed decision about which ones to acquire. This information will help her to apply her finances economically, and hence avoid wasting money.

The visitor will want a money-back guarantee so that if a product does not live up to expectations or if she were misled into buying a product she can get a refund. Such a guarantee absolves her of purchase risks.

The visitor is intelligent (without necessarily being a genius), educated (without necessarily being a PhD), computer literate (without necessarily being a computer guru), and money-minded (without necessarily being a freebie hunter or an unemployed person). This of course does not mean that freebie hunters or unemployed persons cannot gain a thing from the site. To the contrary, there is a great deal of free information on the site. Just that it is hard to see how anyone can gain the full benefits of the site without buying products.

The visitor wants high quality information products (usually in digital form) and wants to pay the cheapest price for these (without paying so much emphasis on price that she compromises quality). The visitor also wants free bonus offers that are attached to the purchased goods.

The visitor is self-reliant and can cope on her own by reading, digesting, and applying advice about her problem until she solves it or discovers that she needs help from a professional, at which point her acquired knowledge will help her to reduce her consulting fees. As a result of the knowledge gained, the visitor will be able to assess consultants in order to avoid incompetent or fraudulent ones.

Problem-Centred Solutions

Our free solutions are organised in the form of pragmatic articles that are written by top experts. Each article addresses a specific daily problem, but does not go into detail. It explains the problem and tells the visitor what she must do to solve her problem. However, it does not tell the visitor how she must solve it – this is too much for an article. To find out about the how, the visitor must buy a product (usually an e-book or e-book set) that goes into greater depth.

The set of educational articles that we have chosen, to provide initial solution to a visitor’s problem are as follows:

Signs of a Gifted Child (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/signs.html) – Informs parents on how to identify whether or not their children are gifted.

Essential Parenting Lessons for Enriching Your Child’s Education (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/parenting.html) – Teaches parents how to enhance their child’s education.

Using Positive Affirmations to Be a Better Student (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/positive-affirmations.html) – Teaches students how to use positive affirmations to improve their performance.

They Are Just Afraid of Writing (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/writing.html) – Teaches writing skills to students

How Can Parents Encourage Their Children to Read? (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/encourage.html) – Shows parents how they can improve their children’s reading skills.

Test Preparation Tutoring (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/test-prep.html) – Discusses the topic of tutoring students to prepare for tests or exams.

Test Taking Strategies (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/test-taking.html) – Discusses various strategies for taking and passing tests or exams

Playing and Winning the Scholarship Game (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/scholarship-game.html) – Describes how to win scholarships.

How to Get a Scholarship to a UK University (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/uk-scholarships.html) – Describes how to win scholarships to a UK university.

Saving Money for College (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/saving-money.html) – Instructs students on how they can save money in preparation for college.

Student Loans: When Your Educational Dreams Can’t Compete with the Cost (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/student-loans-0.html) – Explains to students the benefits of a student loan.

Education Loans Can Fund a Higher Degree to Boost Your Career (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/higher-degree.html) – Also explains to students the benefits of a student loan.

The Secret to US Department of Education Loans (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/usdoe-loans.html) – Teaches students how to get a US DoE loan to finance their higher education.

Student Loan Consolidation - Save Money, Pay Less, Spend More (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/student-loans.html) – Explains to graduates how to make use of loan consolidation to reduce their student loan repayments.

Higher Education: Finding the Right College for You (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/higher-education.html) – Explains to students how to find the right college or university for their higher education studies.

Mobile Learning – An Alternative Worth Considering (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/mobile.html) – Explains the concept of mobile learning and its place in education.

Online Degrees - Is Online Education Right for You? (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/online.html) – Analyses the merits of online learning as compared to traditional learning.

An Online College Education Overview (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/online-college.html) – Reviews the whole concept of online learning.

Finding the Right Quotation for Your Paper or Speech Online (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/quotation.html) – Shows writers and speakers how to find the right quotation to use in their writings or speeches.

Collaboration: An Important Leadership Development Skill (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/collaboration.html) – Explores the useful concept of collaboration and its role in leadership development.

At the end of each article is a list of merchant products that supplement the article’s content. A link is also included for accessing the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Target Markets and Product Offerings

Now let us turn to the target markets and their associated product offerings. We have positioned the segments to address the various needs of a visitor over a period of time, and at any given time a customer may belong to one or more of the market segments. There are three general classes of products offered: ClickBank products (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html), Google products, and eBay products. Google and eBay products are presented on each page of the site. ClickBank products are grouped into product categories that match the target markets. These categories and their markets are as follows.

Children and Parenting. This consists of visitors who want parenting solutions for improving their children’s upbringing. Their needs are met through the Children and Parenting section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Difficult Admissions. This consists of visitors who want to learn how to get admission into top universities. Their needs are met through the Difficult Admissions section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Esoteric Needs. This consists of visitors with unusual needs. Their needs are met through the Esoteric Needs section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Financial Aid. This consists of visitors looking for scholarships, grants, or loans. Their needs are met through the Financial Aid section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Leadership Skills. This consists of visitors looking to develop their leadership skills. Their needs are met through the Leadership Skills section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Learning. This consists of visitors who want to improve their learning ability. Their needs are met through the Learning section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Mental Speed. This consists of visitors who want to explode their mental speed. Their needs are met through the Mental Speed section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Positive Affirmations. This consists of visitors who want to transform their negative dispositions into a positive mindset in order to improve their performance. Their needs are met through the Positive Affirmations section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Speaking. This consists of visitors looking to improve their speaking skills. Their needs are met through the Speaking section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Tests and Exams. This consists of visitors looking to master exam technique. Their needs are met through the Tests and Exams section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Writing. This consists of visitors looking to improve their writing skills. Their needs are met through the Writing section of the educational product catalogue (http://www.triplacc.com/products/educational-pc.html).

Conclusion

This article has introduced the educational solutions module (http://www.triplacc.com/educational/education.html) of the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site (http://www.triplacc.com/). The article has examined competitive offerings, the target customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target markets, and product offerings. It concludes that the module is a major contribution to the information superhighway.

Problems Around The World

But also most alternative energy sources give problems for the environment. Some of them take up vast areas of land, like bio-fuel production, extensive solar cell plants and wind mills. Extensive use of croplands to produce bio-diesel, methanol, ethanol or other bio-fuels can cause a chronic hunger catastrophe. Others, like nuclear power stations can accidently destroy the environment of vast areas and potentially kill millions of people. Also leakage from deposits of nuclear waste can give the same effect. But nuclear power is very clean if everything goes well.

As it seems, there is no easy or elegant political or technical solution to the problem. The problem must be challenged with a clever combination of several means.

An important module in the solution is energy economization. Where it is possible one must use engines, technology and logistics that utilize the energy as effectively as possible. One must also stop using energy on activities that do not result in any added comfort, do not give gain of any sort, or give only marginal resulted value. By using the energy sources more effectively, the World's energy need will perhaps drop by so much as 30%.

Then the use of oil and coal must be replaced with all kinds of alternative energy sources, but no alternative must be used in such an extend or such a way that it cause new problems.

One part of the solution is using bio diesel or other bio-fuels made of waste from croplands. In the process of converting the waste to fuel, the content of minerals in the waste can probably also be extracted and sold as fertilizers. But it is unethical to grow crop just for making bio-fuel, since that can cause food shortage and rise of food prizes.

Use of solar energy to make electricity will be a great part of the solution. Theoretically every roof and outer wall in the world can be covered by solar cell panels, even though it will not be estheticly or practically possible to go so far. Wastelands that have little other value can also be used to mount large solar cell plants. There is however a limit on how much solar cell panels you can mount before the environment is disturbed.

Much more electricity can be produced by wind-mills than today, but there is a limit on the number and extent of wild-mill parks you can set up before the environment is heavily disturbed. In areas like Denmark and Northern Germany the disturbing effects can already be seen clearly.

In many areas the waves in the sea or the stream of tide water can be used to produce electricity in a commercially economical fashion, but again there is a limit on how far you can go in building wave or tidal power plants before you destroy the environment.

The wind can also be used more directly, as it were in former periods. Sails can be mounted on large ships, especially on large cargo carriers. However, the sail rigs will probably look quite differently than those of the old vessels, and be operated automatically by computers.

Many countries have special natural energy resources that lend themselves to easily exploitation. Geothermal energy is one of these. Iceland is extensively using geothermal heat directly or to produce electricity. This technology can probably be extended for use in areas where the geothermal heat is somewhat more hidden, but still relative close to the surface.

Heat pumps are installations using a reversed refrigerator technology to carry heat from the outside environment to the inside of a building where it is concentrated to a higher temperature. The heat can then be used for warming the building or other applications. Heat pumps need some electricity to work, but extract more energy from the outside that they consume. More extensive use of heat pumps can give a great amount of the energy needed for heating,.Heat pumps can also be used to fetch geothermal energy of low temperature and concentrate it to a higher temperature without digging very deep.

Hydroelectric power plants using the natural fall of water from high to low areas have long been a major source of electric energy, and many of the existing plants can be made more efficient. To some extend new plants can also be built, but there is a limit also on this technology before the impact on the environment gets too heavy.

Unfortunately it is not possible to avoid using more nuclear power than today if the energy crisis shall be solved. There are however new developments in this area that makes nuclear power less dangerous. Scientists are right now developing a new type of reactors that will use thorium as a fuel and that will be work subcritically. The reactions in these reactors cannot go out of control. The waste also will cease to radiate after some hundred years, and not many thousand, so the storing of waste will be less problematic. But still there will be waste that must be handled safely.

Most alternative energy sources produce electricity, but it is not always practical to use the electricity directly. It is however possible to use the electricity to produce hydrogen, and the hydrogen can then be used as a clean fuel in applications where electricity does not fit.

In the long run, use of fusion power will probably be the permanent solution. But commercial fusion plant will probably still not be available in the next forty years.There is however a joker that might show up to be salvage of the world's energy problem, namely cold fusion. This seems to be a real phenomenon, and not a misunderstanding as many thought and still thinks. But one does still not know if this phenomenon can be used practically to produce useful energy.

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