A Unique Approach to Shaping the Future Vision of Higher Education
An interesting story by Lisa Schencker of The Salt Lake Tribune caught my eye the other day. It is entitled, New website seeks input on higher ed’s future. Basically, higher education officials in Utah, struggling to shape the future of education to produce the kind of educated labor force they foresee will be needed in their […]
The Relevance of Corporate Online Learning and Training Trends in 2010 to Higher Education
The University of Massachusetts and UMassOnline are not corporations. Students, per se, are not employees. But keeping an eye on corporate trends in distance learning can be helpful in spotting some parallel trends or some new directions any online educational institution should consider. To that point, a colleague alerted me to an article in the […]
SmartHistory, Smarter Textbooks
The UMassOnline team welcomes Dr. Beth Harris, Director of Digital Learning at a NYC museum and former assistant professor of Art History and Director of Distance Learning at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Dr. Steven Zucker, a specialist in 20th-century art and theory and chair of History of Art and […]
A 100-Times Faster Internet?
Did you happen to catch Google’s recent news about experimenting with higher speed broadband networks? Here, from a recent report, is what they are planning and just a few of the astonishing implications:
Google announced plans Wednesday to build experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than those of today […]
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