UMassOnline Named a Mass Technology Leadership Council Award Finalist
We learned late last week that UMassOnline has been named one of only four finalists in the ‘Public Sector Organization’ category in the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s annual recognition program. This is a very big deal for us for at least three reasons: One is because the Technology Leadership Awards recognize outstanding achievement in both […]
High Performers Seek Continuous Learning
Courtesy of a well-known corporate training online publication called Human Resource Executive Online comes an interesting opinion piece authored by Kurt Ronn. He is the president and founder of HRworks, a national recruitment firm. Mr. Ronn has identified five characteristics in people that are, or become, so-called high performers on the job. One of the […]
Online Education Gives Rise to the ‘Mini-lecture’
I love this quote below by Dalton A. Kehoe, an associate professor of communication studies at York University in Toronto. It is so honest, and so revealing of the fact that great teachers are learning new things all the time. By way of introduction, Mr. Kehoe has been teaching communications studies for decades. His traditional […]
Results of U. of Minnesota Study on Educational Benefits of Social Networking
I want you to meet Mr. Bora Zivkovic, but first, this news:
On June 21st, Science Daily published this item about the University of Minnesota’s study to determine if social networking technologies provided any educational benefits. In case you don’t have time to read the report, the researchers concluded social networking is making a positive difference: […]
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