UMassOnline Launches More than Ten New Blended Learning Offerings

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Jennifer Brady

In case you missed all the recent coverage of this news in the mainstream media, in articles like this one in the Worcester Business Journal and this one from the Worcester Telegram here’s a link to the original news release issued November 6^th, 2007, and which gives a more complete description of our new blended learning offerings and the year-long development initiative leading up to their release.

In framing the importance of these new offerings for UMassOnline and its students and faculty for the news release, CEO David Gray said:

“We set out to be among the first to define and develop learning options that acknowledge long-standing and well-known preferences among some students for at least some element of campus connection and community, and we’ve done that… Secondly, we wanted to recognize and adapt our online offerings to the fact that some online students and faculty benefit tremendously when an element of face-to-face learning time is offered as part of any online course, but especially in evidence when content benefits from interaction or hands-on application. We have met this benchmark, too. The overall result is that the UMassOnline staff, our campus-based faculty, and our academic development professionals across all the campuses have achieved a ‘best of both worlds’ solution in these programs.”

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One Response to “UMassOnline Launches More than Ten New Blended Learning Offerings”

Mark on December 4th, 2007 10:58 pm

The blended learning option is a great idea! I hope that UMass has success with these programs and expands them to other areas.

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