Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville visited the University Without Walls Nov. 20 to see first-hand how innovations in technology and online learning are opening doors for adult students living and working in the Commonwealth.
Reville's visit was part of his statewide tour aimed at gathering information on best practices in educational technology in K-12 and higher education settings.
During the visit, Reville met with UWW director Ingrid Bracey, who described the program’s model.
Kyle Stephanie Kraus, instructional designer and trainer with CPE E-learning, provided an
The broadcasts can be heard, with one exception, on Sunday afternoons starting at 1 p.m. on WFCR, and will feature conversations on each selection between conductor Kevin Rhodes and New England Public Radio music director John Montanari.
For researchers who study Earth’s past environment, disentangling the effects of climate change from those related to human activities is a major challenge, but now campus geoscientists have used a biomarker from human feces in a completely new way to establish the first human presence, the arrival of grazing animals and human population dynamics in a landscape.
Aura Ganz, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a four-year, $1.6-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue her research on a computerized disaster-management response system. Ganz says the system is designed to quickly organize chaotic, mass-casualty, disaster scenes, such as airliner, bus and train wrecks, and cut the evacuation time of survivors in half.
Building on its success in drawing more women and under-represented minority students to study computer science at Massachusetts public colleges and universities over the past five years, the campus’s Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) has won a major grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and will now take a national leadership role in computer science education.
It may seem like common sense that the quality of online video streaming affects how willing viewers are to watch videos at a website. But until Computer Science researcher Ramesh Sitaraman and collaborators at Akamai developed a way to rigorously study the question, no one had been able to scientifically test the assumption.