Perception Versus Reality for Online Students
As the director of marketing for UMassOnline I'm very interested in people's evolving perceptions of online education as well as their baseline knowledge of what to look for in selecting a leading institution with an established reputation of quality. While in general I'm seeing an improved awareness and more widespread positive perception, at this Yahoo Answers […]
UMassOnline a Model for Colorado State University?
In the middle of this news story about a plan to launch an online university in 2008 to be called CSU-Colorado, the writers mention an online university system about 2,500 miles away. Presumably trying to make the point that online education options at the college level not only serve the unique needs of adult learners and […]
Higher Education’s Assessment Imperative
Not everyone in academia will agree with me, but in my view we must raise the bar concerning educational assessment at the college and university level, both within the traditional learning as well as online environments. We need more and better across-the-board evaluation frameworks that are fair, valid, compassionate, and qualitative as well as quantitatively measurable and comparable. […]
Online Options Seen as Key To Educational Change in Africa
While this news item, which comes courtesy of allAfrica.com and the Angola Press Agency, is rather quaintly written, its message is anything but old-fashioned.
Angolan deputy minister of Education for the Educative Reform, Pinda Simão Wednesday said, here, that distance learning is one of the tools that will allow the creation of better education and training […]
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