UMass Dartmouth Study Shows College Internet Adoption Faster than Fortune 500

Here’s a story this week from the Boston Globe in which  Dr. Nora Barnes, the director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth is featured and which, based on the Center’s research, notes that …colleges are adopting Internet technologies such as podcasts, message boards, blogs, and social networks faster […]

Chronicle Brainstorm: Going Public

Gina Barreca, a subject matter expert author on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s new blog and professor of English at the University of Connecticut, recently added her thoughts about the quality of a public education and why she teaches at a public university.  Her “Going Public” post walks you through her path to a realization […]

Online Learning Brings Young Students Back to the Library

Here’s a surprising stat:
Young adults are the heaviest users of public libraries despite the ease with which they can access a wealth of information over the Internet from the comforts of their homes, according to a new study.
That’s from this news item found in the Star-Gazette by Anick Jesdanun of The Associated Press who is writing about […]

Inspirational Story for Other ‘Jugglers’?

As many do, thinking through the previous year looking towards the next, I think back on stories that opened my eyes or even just caused me to stop for a minute or two to reflect and look through a new lens.  This story in the Plano Courier found its way to my desktop because it makes reference to getting an […]

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