–By Sagar Satapathy

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the first edition of the "Carnival of Online Education". I received a large number of entries out of which 12 posts managed to make the cut. I hope that this carnival helps the students who want tips on online education. Let me take you through the posts that are featured in this carnival.

Royce Wells presents Stanford?s EPGY Online High School posted at Wells On Education. Royce gives useful information about Stanford’s EPGY Online High School.

Alvaro presents What do successful Traders and Students have in common posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution. The answer: "portable skills" or executive functions. What are these? Well, keep reading…online education will be a very important vehicle for their development.

Jimmy Atkinson presents 10 Advantages to Taking Online Classes posted at OEDb: Online Education Database. Jimmy argues why taking classes online is becoming popular and what are its real advantages. Some great tips you cannot afford to miss.

Allan Wallace presents An Online College Degree At BFU posted at BFU – self directed learning for visionaries. If you want to earn an online college degree, learn more about Bastiat Free University.

Phil presents Why Public Schools are Failures to the Best Students « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity. Phil admits that the public school system has a plethora of success stories. However he strongly believes that there are at least an equal number of contradicting stories on how the schools failed individuals, especially gifted and honor students.

Michael Nelson presents Online Construction Courses – Iowa State University « C-School – Construction Management Education posted at C-School – Construction Management Education. Learn more about the online courses available from the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at Iowa State University.

Michael Blachford presents Online Courses posted at University in the Eyes of a Student. Michael tells us about the benefits of online education.

Phil presents What does Zero Times Infinity Equal? « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity. At first, you may think that zero times infinity equals zero. After all, zero times any number is equal to zero, however infinity is not a number.

Travis Wright presents The Next Millionaires posted at Cultivate Greatness. Get educated, so you can be one of the Next Millionaires… 10 million new millionaires will be created from 2006-2016, you want to be one?

Vahid Chaychi presents Online Education Works for Most People posted at Online Degrees and Universities. There is no doubt that online education works for most people. Vahid has come up with some strong arguments in favor of his statement.

Marian Heddesheimer presents Rent a Tutor Blog – Category: Podcasting posted at Rent a Tutor Blog. This blog is a collection of tutorials (most are screencasts) about Internet stuff. In this category, you will find tutorials about podcasting and how you can use it for education.

Vahid Chaychi presents Thanks to Internet For HomeSchooling posted at Online Degrees and Universities. Is it really possible to receive diplomas like high school diploma over the Internet? The answer is yes but before that you need to participate in high school courses online.

With this, the first edition of the Carnival of Online Education is concluded. I expect to see more interesting, informative posts on online education in the future editions of this carnival. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our readers!