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• UMassOnline Wins 2008 Public Sector Technology Leadership Award

  - 2008-10-28

  Other Public Sector Finalists in the Mass Technology Council Award Program included the City of Boston, BostonFIRST, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center UMassOnline Recognized for Leadership and Excellence in Business and Technology SHREWSBURY, Mass. -- UMassOnline Chief Executive Officer David Gray announced today that UMassOnline has been...

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• UMassOnline Graduate Behavioral Intervention in Autism Program Gains National Distinction with Sloan Consortium Annual Award

  - 2008-10-21

  Most Outstanding Online Learning and Teaching Program Collaboratively Developed by UMass Lowell, UMass Medical School-Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center and UMassOnline Since Program's Online Debut in 2005, Enrollments Have More than Quadrupled SHREWSBURY, Mass. -- UMassOnline Chief Executive Officer David Gray announced today that the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an...

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• UMassOnline's Launch of More Than Ten New Blended Learning Options Caps Year-Long Strategic Research and Development Initiative

  - 2007-11-06

  Evolving Learning Solutions to Have Longer Term Global Implications Flurry of New, All-Campus Course Offerings Leverages UMassOnline's Regional Strength as the Largest Online Provider in Massachusetts; For UMass, a Collaborative, System-Wide 'Best of Both Worlds' Solution is Pioneered SHREWSBURY, Mass. -- Fueled by a $650,000 development grant...

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• Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America.(Book review)

  - 2007-06-22

  Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. By E. Jennifer Monaghan. (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. 504. $49.95.) This is a deceptively complex book about a deceptively simple subject. One of the modernization theorists' central claims about the British...

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• UMassOnline Chief Academic Officer Unanimously Elected to University Continuing Education Association's Distance Learning Community of Practice

  - 2007-03-20

  SHREWSBURY, Mass. -- UMassOnline, University of Massachusetts' virtual campus offering more than 1,300 accredited courses within 66 degree and certificate programs, announced today the appointment of Barbara Macaulay to Vice Chair/Chair-elect of the University Continuing Education's UCEA Distance Learning Community of Practice. "UCEA is thrilled to have Dr. Macaulay...

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• Licensing dollars boost higher education's bottom line

  - 2006-01-01

  ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS, WHO SPEND HOURS TOILING AWAY IN LABORATORIES and libraries, can be credited for more than just academic gains, according to the latest survey of the Association of University and Technology Managers. Each year the association tracks how much money colleges, universities, and other institutions are being paid in...

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• UMass Lowell's Online Education Program Receives Three National Awards

  - 2005-10-26

  LOWELL, Mass. -- The University of Massachusetts Lowell's Continuing Studies and Corporate Education Division was notified this past month that it has received three national awards for excellence in its online education programs from The Sloan Consortium - an association of more than 1,000 institutions and organizations of higher education...

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• Centered on teacher training: at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the innovative Center for Technical Education has established a successful formula for teacher training.

  - 2005-09-01

  If you want to develop an outstanding career/technical teacher preparation program, consider the simple formula that has worked for the University of Massachusetts UMass Boston: provide a comprehensive course of study. But don't stop there--offer your students a wide array of services and resources to help...

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• Success among students in special education.(Brief Article)

  - 2005-02-08

  A University of Massachusetts study found that districts with higher-than-expected achievement by students in special education on the state assessment shared common practices. These districts aligned their curricula with state goals, encouraged inclusion, and maintained a disciplined social environment, among other strategies. Researchers at the...

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• E-mail from our readers

  - 2002-11-01

  LICENSING REVISITED In the exchange of letters in the September 2002 issue of Prism regarding "To License or Not to License," it is instructive to note that all American medical school graduates are required tc pass a national medical licensing examination. Why should engineering graduates be treated any differently? Theodore...

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