If MIT is giving it away, why should I pay for it?
The question is often asked of us. By way of background, several years ago MIT launched its Open CourseWare Initiative in which all their faculty are required to post their curriculum online for the world to share and use. Students, instructors from other colleges, in fact, anyone can browse through the lecture notes […]
Should Second Life Be First on Our Agenda Now?
These are exciting times to be working in the world of instructional technology, some would say daunting. Every day some new software product debuts and every week someone proclaims they have seen the future and x product is “it”. And, more often than not the product is cool, it has value, but does […]
“Dad, We Don’t Use Email Anymore!”
The headline for this post is a direct quote from my son who is 19, attending college, and responding to my inquiry, admittedly made with some pique, over his lack of timely response to my recent emails. Apparently email these days to the contemporary college set is the rough equivalent of the actual, long, […]
Dean Dirk Messelaar: A Visionary Builder of Bridges to China
[Editor’s Note: Dirk Messelaar is Dean of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston.]
Next month, accompanying UMassOnline CEO David Gray, Dean Messelaar will be making his fifth trip to China on a ten day mission that continues a visionary journey of cultural and academic discovery he started in 2001 and has […]
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