Rent a Textbook, Plant a Tree?
This is about a new online site at Chegg.com offering over two million used books and 800,000 new book titles for students to rent, rather than buy. If you use this service, they’ll plant a tree for every text you rent. Thanks to the Environmental graffiti blog for bringing it to my attention.
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The Four Most Common Questions of Applicants
As the Marketing and Customer Service Manager here at UMassOnline, I’m usually the one who fields most of the initial inquiries from prospective students seeking to know more about our offerings and admissions requirements. I’ve found that four questions are asked most often when students are investigating whether or not we represent the best fit. […]
10 Top Myths About Online/Distance Learning
Lots of generally helpful articles like this one, entitled Top 5 Distance Learning Myths are available online from independent third parties. This one by Jamie Littlefield at About.com is a good one. But I thought it might be valuable as well to have an insider's more specific view of UMassOnline. None of this is about whether online is better than face-to-face […]
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