Tips For Online Learning Success
The professors at UMassOnline have been excellent and have gone well beyond my expectations in most cases. I have learned so much from taking classes in this program, but it has certainly been a challenge! For this post I thought I would give you my view of what it takes to be a success as […]
Podcasts 101: Podcasting Publishing Software (Part 2 of 3)
In the world of teaching and learning with technology, podcasts have become part of everyday life. A professor can create podcasts for students to subscribe to and listen anywhere, any time, or anyplace. A student may post comments on last week’s Biology lecture, upcoming housing availability, or what’s happening while on Spring Break. All […]
Distance Learning and the ‘Right’ to an Education
This link takes you to a special edition of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, an e-journal published by Athabasca University in Canada. The central question in the spotlight of this special issue: “What is the Role of Distance Education in the Implementation to the Right to Education?”
With specific reference to […]
Online Learning Good for Grad Students, Bad for Undergraduates?
In this article appearing in The Huffington Post, by C. L. Max Nikias and entitled, “Learning for a Lifetime,” the author makes an eloquent, although somewhat narrow, case for limiting distance learning options in higher education to graduate students. To summarize his view, using his own concluding words, he says, “…the great American universities would […]
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