Posts Tagged ‘UMass’
CollegeWeekLive to Feature Chats with New England Students, Reps on May 3
by Christine Cassis
April 27, 2011
The world's largest online college fair, CollegeWeekLive, will feature New England Day on Tuesday, May 3.
Attendees may log in to chat with admissions representatives from more than 20 local colleges and hear about campus life from students via webcast. All registrants will be eligible for a $5,000 scholarship available.
Participants will include the University of Massachusetts, ...
Read MoreTags: ACT, Collegeboard, CollegeWeekLive, Princeton Review, Suffolk, UMass, University of New Haven, US Department of Ed, UVM, WPI | No Comments
Will MITx Change How We Think About Higher Education?
by Philip DiSalvio
February 6, 2012
While many colleges and universities are trying to adapt to the forces affecting higher education today, a recent move by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology is about to cause a seismic shift.
The prototype version of MITx is scheduled for launch in spring 2012. MITx is an outgrowth of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), which began in ...
Read MoreTags: disruptive technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MITx, online learning, Philip DiSalvio, UMass | 2 Comments