Do Men and Women Have Different Online Learning Experiences?
Recently, the flagship institution of the largest university in Malaysia conducted research to see if the online learning experience differed for males and females. More specifically, according to the...
View ArticleDistance Learning: 1892 through 2012
Think distance learning is a recent phenomenon? If so, you’ll want to examine a recent Forbes article that traces distance learning in America back to 1892. This is especially true if you have friends...
View ArticleNew Report: Degrees from U.S. Institutions Highly Valued by Foreign Students
A degree earned through a U.S.-based institution of higher education continues to be a major draw for hundreds of thousands of foreign students… 764,495 in the 2011/12 academic year to be exact,...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
I was reviewing Wikipedia’s New Year’s resolution overview which includes the history of this tradition dating back to the ancient Babylonians. If you have time to scan it, you will learn that men and...
View ArticleOne Perspective on 2013 Career Trends
Writing for VentureBeat, Gary Swart provides a guest blog post outlining his perspective on 2013 career trends. He, by the way, is the CEO of oDesk which is an organization that enables both buyers and...
View Article2012 National Survey: More than 6.7 Million Students Now Taking One Online...
This is from a recent news release about the 10th annual survey of online learning trends: The 2012 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group reveals the number of...
View ArticleColumbia Business School Professor Exposes Three Myths of Online Learning
Hitendra Wadhwa is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School. For IEDP, which describes itself as a publisher of specialist information for leaders and leadership development...
View ArticleUniversity World News Reports on US and Global Quality Assurance Initiatives
There are two points to this post. One, as the headline suggests, is about the growing wave of educators worldwide seeking to continue and enhance quality assurance programs, especially now in the...
View ArticleA Massive OOps Calamity
A planned, tuition-free, six-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) intended to reach more than 40,000 students recently unraveled in six days, the reasons for which are painfully detailed in a report...
View ArticleUMassOnline Founder and Former UMass President Jack Wilson on “Innovation in...
Dr. Wallace E. Boston is President and Chief Executive Officer of American Public University System (APUS) and its parent company, American Public Education, Inc. In a recent blog post, he filed a...
View ArticleBeyond the Stats of Mental Health Month
It first occurred 64 years ago. That’s when, in 1949, the month of May was first officially designated as Mental Health Month. This year, as this Department of Health and Human Services site notes, the...
View ArticleSee and Hear from UMass Online Students at Recent Graduation Ceremonies
This is a wonderful time of year for most no matter where they are or what they are doing. But perhaps no time or place can be more memorable and important than a spring graduation ceremony for its...
View ArticleUMass Amherst Launches Online Master of Science in Engineering Management (MSEM)
On the new online program news front, this just in from UMass Amherst: their online and blended Master of Science in Engineering Management (MSEM). This ten-course program equips engineers with the...
View ArticleUniversity Without Walls Sees Largest Graduating Class in its 40-Year History
UMass Amherst University Without Walls (UWW) has announced its largest graduating class ever. The UWW graduating class of 2011 consists of over 250 online students who hail from 21 states, including...
View ArticleDigital Distractions
An interesting article, “10 IT Skills that Today’s High School Kids Have – Do You?” by Randy Muller offers some of the technologies and tools with which high schoolers are comfortable. Some of these...
View ArticleUMassOnline Speaker Series Guest Jim Fong On Using Data to Drive and Gain...
UMassOnline Speaker Series presenter Jim Fong, at our facility in Shrewsbury on Friday, July 15th, put into words a possibility that many in academic marketing dread even thinking about: a lack of...
View ArticlePreview of August 18th Presentation on Soaring National Use of Social Media...
Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes is Chancellor Professor of Marketing at UMass Dartmouth as well as Center Director of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research. Since 2007-2008, she...
View ArticleArea Industry Leaders, White House Business Council, Convene at UMass...
In a recent article entitled, “In high-tech, another kind of job crunch,” Boston Globe Staffer Katie Johnston reported the view of many in the area that Massachusetts must do more make the area a more...
View ArticleAn Independent 3rd Party Review of Online Courses from UMass
A writer by the name of Shawn Seah has recently posted an article entitled, “Is it a Good Idea to Study at UMassOnline? – University of Massachusetts – An Evaluation.” It concludes with this statement:...
View ArticleMagic College Dust?
Online courses have already become a mainstay of college, and increasingly high school, education. Most colleges offer at least online courses, if not entire degrees. Though the debate about whether...
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