UMassOnline Blog To Be Spotlight of May 7th Marketing Conference
With our search engine consultants Nowspeed, who be represented by Creative Director Bob Cargill, I will be participating as a co-presenter at a May 7th session during the 2009 Annual Conference of the New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) to be held at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. The topic, “What’s Blogging Have to Do with Direct […]
Textbooks versus Technology: The Right Debate?
Here’s a Texas-sized story about an ongoing debate in the Lone Star state over textbooks and technology. It is a K-12 story but it is all about a major question we at UMassOnline face all the time: what is the best allocation of funds for technology; what is the right balance of new and traditional?
In […]
A Contemporary Discourse on Free, Open Source, Online Texts vs. the Alternatives
There was a time not so long ago when no one questioned the long-term viability of the mainstream print media. Now newspapers nationwide are suffering. Some visionaries predicted this outcome, but either their positions weren’t heard, or they were heard and routinely discounted or dismissed.
So what are we to make of those few who are […]
Island Hopping in Second Life
This guest post was written by my colleague, Kitty Galaitsis, Director of Online Education, Division of Corporate, Continuing and Distance Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus. Kitty is known in Second Life as ‘Circe Miklos’ (shown in the post image).
Second Life has come a long way in a year at the University of Massachusetts […]
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