President Jack Wilson Launches ‘The Future I Imagined’
University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson is not only our great global ambassador for the entire UMass system, not only the educational visionary most often sought for setting our mission and establishing our goals and quality standards, but he is also the person who, as my boss, mentor, and friend, I have come to […]
Some Global Implications of Your Distance Learning Experience
I’ve just returned from a week in China as part of our ongoing initiative to be one of the first foreign educational institutions to be approved by the Ministry of Education to offer online learning programs in China for China’s students. I’ll have much more to say and report about this in subsequent posts. For […]
Work-Life Balance China Style
BEIJING - Much has been written about the elusive concept of “work-life balance.” There’s a Wikipedia entry for it and even whole web sites devoted to the notion (see worklifebalance.com for one example). We Americans are often accused of being out of balance. Too much work, 24 x 7 schedules, and the stresses of contemporary life […]
“It can’t be done online…”
No recent article – and comments posted in response – has in my opinion so aptly captured the learning online versus on-ground debate as this opinion piece, entitled, A Defense of In-Person Education, published by Inside Higher Ed, and written by Jane Arnold, who is the reading specialist and assistant professor of English at Adirondack […]
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