Posted: July 31st, 2009 under Education.
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Posted: July 31st, 2009 under Education.
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I am thrilled to report that my former colleague Ken Udas, most recently the Executive Director of Penn State World Campus and before that a fellow escapee from the SUNY Learning Network, has been selected as the new CEO of UMassOnline. Says University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson,

The role of CEO of UMassOnline requires an individual whose knowledge and skills are strong in education, solid in technology, and visionary in management, development, and planning. In Dr. Udas we have clearly met this requirement. Dr. Udas has experienced, and understands, the all-important faculty and program development component which is key to UMassOnline’s future; the all-important technology component that has always distinguished our offering; and, he has been a vocal champion of online learning and teaching throughout his career.

This was a very smart move on the part of the University of Massachusetts. I’m sure Ken will do great things there.

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Posted: July 31st, 2009 under Education.
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I told myself I'd pick one and sit through the first five minutes. If, at that point, it had met certain criteria, I'd bail on it for one of the other sessions.

If you are loathe to leave a session under any circumstances, consider yourself exempt from this writing prompt. Otherwise, if you value your time and you vote with your feet, how do you judge a session by its first five minutes? Again, it's possible the session turned into a winner exactly six minutes in. Under these constraints, though, we don't have the luxury of patience.

I'll post my own criteria to the comments shortly.

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