Know your learner…
These past couple of months I’ve been reading a number of articles on the current generation of college students. There are a lot of names to describe this generation, but the terms that seem to have caught on the most are: Millennials, Digital Natives, and Net Generation. What all these descriptions have in common is […]
Preparation tips for the successful student
The new semester is about to start here at UMass Boston and while I should have posted this quite some time ago, better late than never! For the first time, in quite some time, I am no longer an active student having recently graduated from the MA in Applied Linguistics at UMass Boston (great […]
Making Services Accessible
My last blog post, on the topic of the library and what a great resource it is, brought a lot of comments my way, mostly by way of the water-cooler, when speaking with colleagues; I also got comments by way of email and before-the-class chatter, when talking to classmates far and wide. Anecdotal evidence, […]
The Library: Your Hidden Gem
OK, so we’ve passed the mid-semester mark, and any midterm exams are now probably done. This means that you’re probably starting to write a term paper, or you’ve started already. Have you been to the library yet? As an online student you might think “but the library is where the books are! What value […]
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