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Online courses have come a long way toward providing a seamless connection to the learning environment and a positive experience for the learner in the virtual classroom. Now, digital video technology helps personalize the instructor’s online presence.Read the Full Story
If you are attending Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke or Smith colleges or the University of Massachusetts, your academic experience is not limited to only one campus. Once you are in the second semester of your first year, you may take classes at any of the other four campuses through the Five College exchange program. Read […]
This year in first grade, he’ll explore the great religions. He’ll read music in second grade, study astronomy in third and manipulate millions in fourth. By fifth grade, he’ll be analyzing Shakespeare. Read the Full Story
“He’d draw a little cartoon on people’s day-timers – a little boy with a mitt – and the caption, ‘Don’t forget the game on Tuesday,’ ” said Steve Unverzagt, director of marketing at the Art Instruction Schools, where Schultz was both a student and a teacher in the 1940s.Read the Full Story
The Illinois school didn’t provide much information, just a name. So Anenberg did what many anxious freshmen heading off to college have done — she went to the Internet and Googled her roommate-to-be.Read the Full Story
Many Cornell students still woke up early on Wednesday to complete the familiar task of adding and dropping courses. This year, however, instead of waiting in line to get drop slips signed, students were able to add and drop their courses online.Read the Full Story
In 1999, Pace University was awarded a $1,000,000, three-year FIPSE Learning Anytime Anywhere Program (LAAP) Grant. The grant focuses on three areas: online testing, enhanced student support services, and mentoring. Funding from the LAAP grant has enabled the University to greatly enhance the student services that are provided to online students.Read the Full Story
Wilson was hired by Bulger in 2001 to create UMassOnline, a distance learning program that has expanded to 39 graduate, undergraduate and certificate programs serving 11,000 students.Read the Full Story