Digital Financial Advice Tools and eLearning Accommodate Multiple Learning Styles Online instruction, also called EdTech or eLearning, is the order of the day for many institutes of higher learning as they work to bring educational opportunity into the digital age. And according to the financial professionals we interviewed, eLearning has great potential for delivering financial [...]

Everywhere we Look we See Technology - Financial Education is no Exception You see it everywhere, every day: people focused on their screens, peering at their gadgets, oblivious to the world around them. Technology intrudes into every aspect of our lives. And our financial lives are no exception. Financial education, information gathering, account monitoring, online [...]

College CNBC Article with Vince Shorb In a recent CNBC article, Money Skills Your Teen Needs for College, the NFEC’s CEO Vince Shorb made some comments that some readers found controversial. Among those views are instilling financial skills into future college students that may seem like difficult lessons. Shorb believes that starting to learn about [...]

Organization Spotlight: Center for Financial Education Community College Financial Literacy Program Starting in Fall 2013, the NFEC designed, developed and deployed the SunTrust Foundation Center for Financial Education at Wake Technical Community College aimed at raising financial literacy competencies among Wake Tech students, staff, and community members. The community college financial literacy campaign designed by [...]

Financial Professionals Promote Reading to Financial Success What does financial success mean to you? For some it means getting rich quick. For others, just having enough to pay the bills with a little left over for fun. Still others define it as setting up a secure retirement. Whatever your personal financial definition, there are books [...]