A Contemporary Discourse on Free, Open Source, Online Texts vs. the Alternatives

There was a time not so long ago when no one questioned the long-term viability of the mainstream print media. Now newspapers nationwide are suffering. Some visionaries predicted this outcome, but either their positions weren’t heard, or they were heard and routinely discounted or dismissed.
So what are we to make of those few who are […]

Island Hopping in Second Life

This guest post was written by my colleague, Kitty Galaitsis, Director of Online Education, Division of Corporate, Continuing and Distance Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus. Kitty is known in Second Life as ‘Circe Miklos’ (shown in the post image).
Second Life has come a long way in a year at the University of Massachusetts […]

The Online Student Survival Guide

Some public relations people and marketing advisors would tell me I’m doing something ill-advised in this post: I’m saying something positive about an initiative by an institution which on some level I suppose competes with UMassOnline. I believe that strong institutions like UMassOnline with extreme confidence in our offering can, from time to time, without […]

Zogby Poll Finds Distance Education a Sign of Transcendent Change

Courtesy of yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education news blog comes this report of a new book by well-known pollster John Zogby. I can’t wait to share many of Mr. Zogby’s most relevant findings with you. While Mr. Zogby’s new book identifies attitudinal trends among Americans in reference to a broad spectrum of transformational cultural developments, […]