Dr. Jeannette E. Riley Wins Sloan-C ‘Excellence in Online Teaching’ Award
Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jennifer Brady | Leave a Comment
UMassOnline today announced that Jeannette E. Riley, UMass Dartmouth Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women’s Studies program was awarded the Excellence in Online Teaching Award by Sloan-C, a national consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education. The award recognizes Dr. Riley “For innovative development of learner-centered strategies for online teaching that promote intellectual inquiry, critical analysis, and self-reflection, and inspire students to pursue life-long learning.”
Please go to this link to learn more about Dr. Riley’s work and about this very important national tribute to her online teaching excellence.
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Costs and Course Quality Draw Even in College Selection Choice
Posted on October 22, 2008 by Barbara Macaulay | 1 Comment
This brief post is directed at all college-bound high school seniors and their parents to provide you with insights on college selection and how to deal with choices in this time of financial crisis. You may be interested in reading about how others are managing this. The information comes courtesy of a new survey conducted jointly by ApplyWise.com, an online college admissions counseling service and Next Step Magazine, a publication for high school students and their parents. At this link you can see all the various statistics and the steps people are taking to get an affordable, quality college education. But the one data point that caught my attention was:
The cost of tuition and fees was cited as the factor having the greatest overall influence in college decisions by 27% of the respondents. The academic programs offered by colleges is the number one criteria for college selection among 35% of the families responding to the Next Step and ApplyWise survey… “Academic offerings have always been the number one reason students select a college, but clearly now, the cost of attending college is equally important,” said Katherine Cohen, PhD., president and co-founder of ApplyWise.com.
An important side note is that more than half of the families surveyed also said they were considering in-state public colleges. This, of course, would include the University of Massachusetts and UMassOnline.
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UMassOnline Autism Program Gains National Distinction from Sloan-C
Posted on October 21, 2008 by Jennifer Brady | 1 Comment
UMassOnline Chief Executive Officer David Gray announced today that the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, has selected UMass Lowell’s Online Graduate Behavioral Intervention in Autism Program for its annual award in the category of ‘Most Outstanding Online Teaching and Learning Program’ in the nation. This innovative online program, introduced in the Fall of 2005 and designed to better prepare families and professionals to respond to challenges presented by the growing population of children diagnosed with autism and related disorders, was collaboratively developed by UMass Lowell, the UMass Medical School-EK Shriver Center, and UMassOnline.
Go to this link to see the complete news release and to learn more details about this innovative Graduate Behavioral Intervention in Autism Program available through UMassOnline.
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ECON 101: When a Bad Economy Rules, Go to School
Posted on October 20, 2008 by Barbara Macaulay | 1 Comment
According to this report, a lot of smart people have figured out one of the best things to do in a terrible economy. They’re going to school. While this story is focused on what’s happening in higher education in Washington State, the national statistics provided in the story tend to confirm this is a national trend. Past trends show that continuing education generally does well in a challenging economy. This seems counterintuitive but indeed underscores the value of proactive steps toward building—or re-building—the future.
Depressed, worried, fretful, fearful of the future of our national and international economies? Me, too. But while all of these negative forces seem to be swirling around, taking courses and working toward a certificate or degree just may be the way to prepare for a time when the world rights itself again.
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