Please Join Us April 4th for UMassOnline Speaker Series Event: Creating Synergy Between Enrollment and Technology Departments
There is still time to register for the upcoming UMassOnline’s Speaker Series event co-sponsored by the EDUCAUSE Community Constituent Group: Blended and Online Learning, featuring guest speakers, Bill Hampton, Becky Vasquez and John Watret of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide. Their presentation, The Power of Partnering Together - Creating Synergy Between Enrollment and Technology Departments That Transforms Performance, […]
Reading Ability, Learning Ability, and their Correlation to Cultural Literacy
Feeling a little under the weather this past weekend and unable to manage any productive work associated with my marketing role at UMassOnline, I turned to my bookshelf for at least a little quiet-time learning. First I turned to a small volume, originally published in 1954, entitled The Great Crash 1929, by John Kenneth Galbraith. My hope […]
A Pivotal Question about the Potential Impact of MOOCs and MOOSes
A recent article in The New York Times is bound to provoke a lot of thought on the traditional university campus and by established providers of tuition-based online higher education. Written by Tamar Lewin, and entitled, “Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls.,” it spotlights resent developments — and success stories - through MOOCs (Massive Open […]
A 300-Year Look at Distance Learning
Think distance learning is a contemporary phenomenon? Think again. Thanks to a recent item published by National Geographic, you can scan the history of distance learning in America and worldwide dating back 300 years. The informative infographic provided in the piece begins in 1728 when it was noted that an advertisement in a Boston newspaper offered courses in […]
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