What is Learning Design?

The UMassOnline team welcomes Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie ELearning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) Macquarie University Sydney, NSW Australia as a guest blogger and to the extended UMassOnline community for an event featuring Professor Dalziel on July 8th. For those local to UMassOnline or planning to be in the area, please join us Thursday, July 8th at 9:30 at the […]

Test, Test, Test – Is It That Important?

Any student growing up in China understands the importance of tests. Starting from an early age, students are judged solely by how high they score in tests, especially in standardized tests. They are ranked after each test: mid-term, final, or even unit test. This experience of being “enslaved” by test scores continues until they graduate […]

From Ideas to Implementation: Getting There in a Distributed Community

One of the fantastic benefits of my new position at UMassOnline, is the ability to attend the great variety of conferences, presentations, meetings and discussions going on throughout the University of Massachusetts, within the State, and among our peers throughout higher education. Looking forward into the upcoming academic year (and the summer), it’s exciting to […]







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