Earning a degree online can be a daunting proposition, and it’s easy to get discouraged by all of the work, but sometimes all you need to become recharged is to read about people in the same position as you who’ve succeeded in achieving their educational and career goals. Here are a few inspirational stories of online students who’ve stuck with their programs and improved their lives through e-learning — and believe it or not, you can too.

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And by “earns” we mean “pays for.” In an eye-opening experiment conducted by education watchdog GetEducated.com, the site’s pug mascot Chester applied for a Masters degree in Business Administration from the online school Rochville University.

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This video has been around for a while, but it’s still a powerful and engaging argument for the increased use of technology in classrooms. Although it’s aimed at teachers and school administrators, the potency of the message isn’t lost on the rest of us, and while not all of the suggestions might be feasible, it’s this sort of out-of-the-box thinking that will hopefully fuel education in the 21st century. Plus, it’s got purty music.

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Every day, more and more websites are offering free books to read online, but rarely do they feel like true substitutes for real-world libraries. The prestigious Massachusetts prep school Cushing Academy begs to differ, however.

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Nobody likes to write a research paper, but there’s this great thing called the Internet (or if you’re my grandmother, “tha Internets”) featuring an abundance of resources that have made the process easier and have made trips to a brick-and-mortar library less and less necessary (unless you have a crush on the librarian, which would explain your front-row seat at story time). Here are 17 of the very best websites when it comes time to research that big school paper.

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