It is without doubt today's Generation Y uses the web prolifically. From keeping tabs on friends and accessing entertainment, to managing course work and researching for their future its evident the web is new the norm. But while paradigms are shifting most university websites cannot keep pase and lack in useablity. From department to department sites are inconsistent in aspects of content, design, navigation and reliability. This is a result of a publishing frenzy, unavoidable but damaging. When hundreds of faculty/departments create webpages a lack of cohesiveness occurs creating confusion that is passed onto the student.
These issues hinder students' ability to gain a coherent perspective of all their academic options. And worse, if unsatisfied with university pages students typically venture onto third party career planning sites where information is often outdated, stolen for monitary purposes, or irrelevant to their specific academic structure.
The bottom-line is large universities need a better method for discovery of majors and their corresponding careers, student organizations, key faculty and new programs.
Academic Explorer, created by four Penn State graduates (06) answers that call by providing a riveting tool for major and postgraduate exploration and planning.
5 Reasons Career Services Should Adopt Academic Explorer
- Affordable. AE is a solution that can be used out of the box, no longer will your department have to suffer through lengthy IT planning, or designating large budgets for outsource development.
- Engaging. Our interactive flash interface offers an playful and focused atmosphere to an otherwise boring noise driven task. Based on mind-mapping data visualization design techniques you might even find yourself toying with the idea of returning to school for a new degree.
- Real Time. A content management system comes standard with every AE package. As long as you can send e-mails you can create, edit and publish (real time) content for students.
- Impact. Our application can be leveraged by any students at any point during their education. Create excitement and become a leader for at your university.
- Serve. It is your duty to provide students with the best tools necessary to achieve success. University pages are not cutting it, fill the void engage students where they are the most, the web.
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