Philosophy Professor Argues for Evidence-Based Educational Approaches
Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and author of The Brain and the Meaning of Life. This month, on a Psychology Today blog site he has posted an article with the headline “Education, Evidence, and Ethics: How should university students be taught?” Professor Thagard, by the way, has examined both […]
New Life Science Masters Degree Initiative Announced
The details are still in development but more will be forthcoming in the summer and fall months with respect to an exciting new venture in the UMass system, which includes UMassOnline…On July 8, 2009, University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson announced a new initiative in the life sciences involving all five campuses in the […]
How Will Your Online Degree Advance Your Career?
I’ve been thinking about a weekly series of posts in which various faculty experts and others outline how completing a degree in any one of the many programs we offer could help a person advance his or her career. For example, how might a master’s degree in nursing help someone who is today a nurse […]
Are You Learning on Empty: Parts II, III, & IV…
You may recall this post we ran mid last month about the effect of rising gas prices on students’ choice of online college options versus commuting to and from campus? Well, the story is getting a lot of ‘mileage’ of late.
On July 9th, for example, Associated Press writer Nancy Kelsey filed a report with a […]
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