November Webcasts Feature 3 UMass Experts; Techniques Used to Develop “Green Jobs” Programming
Techniques for Developing “Green Jobs” Programs is the name of a two-day web conference November 17-18 that is being sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and hosted by Academic Impressions. For this event the three most important sources of information will be UMass professionals with significant credentials and a […]
Forbes’ Latest Report on Best-Paying Jobs Below C-Level Roles
This article, “In Pictures: America’s Highest-Paying White-Collar Jobs,” is courtesy of Forbes online. It features a slide show of ten top jobs that pay the most without having to run the company. Here’s how Forbes positions the piece and describes the source of their information:
Want to make the most you can without actually running a […]
Should College Textbooks be Available for Free Online?
Well, who is going to say no to ‘free.’ Maybe for starters, the authors of educational texts may have an issue with it, but maybe not. More likely than not it will be traditional publishers. According to this recent article in the Edmonton Journal, most professors write texts for fame and a sense of contribution […]
Professional Training through Online Education
Recently, a journal article in the latest issue of Distance Education in China, a journal supervised by the Ministry of Education, caught my eyes. According to the excerpt of the article (in Chinese), which can be accessed here, professional training through online education is rapidly on the rise in China with the popularization of the […]
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