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This World Traveler Came Back to Her Roots to Pursue Her Online M.Ed.
June 18, 2015Emily Heath LaFon is a UGA graduate student living in Munich, Germany. A native of Georgia, LaFon has been teaching at an international school in Germany for the past four years where she has a classroom of 19 third graders representing 17 nations. When she made the move, she didn’t know…
From Student to Professor, Then Back Again: Dr. Iris Saltiel’s Unusual Journey
June 10, 2015Dr. Iris Saltiel is a dynamic woman who has been teaching online since 1998 at Troy University and Columbus State University. But the switch from professor to student provided a surprising, yet welcome, challenge in the fall of 2014 when she began taking courses online in UGA’s Graduate Certificate…
Online Student Profile: Marissa Munroe, M. Ed in Learning Design and Technology
May 28, 2015Marissa Munroe is completing her first year in the M. Ed Learning Design and Technology online degree program. She is scheduled to graduate after Summer 2016. She is originally from New Jersey, but got her B.A. in English and Psychology at Georgia State
An Education Isn’t All M.S. Pharmacy Student Melinda Smith Gets From Her Online Program
May 21, 2015Melinda Smith, a student of the Master of Science in Pharmacy with an emphasis in BioPharma Regulatory Affairs program, is currently over ten years into her career, and holds the position of Director of Quality and Regulatory Devices at NeoMed, but she’s still attaining her master’s degree. This…
Online Student’s Love of Technology Leads to an Online Program
May 14, 2015UGA online student, Ben Hall, is applying his life-long passion for technology to his studies in the online M.Ed. Learning Design and Technology (LDT) program.
Online Professors Bring Students into the Community
May 1, 2015Tarek Grantham and Meg Hines, online Gifted and Creative Education professors, also teach a First-Year Odyssey semester together that takes UGA freshmen into the Athens community.
Online Music Education Faculty Brings Local Teacher and Students to UGA
April 14, 2015Dr. Legette, faculty member of the new online Master in Music Education program, was recently involved in an on campus event that brought together music education students and local children. Rachel Osborne, music teacher at Whit Davis Elementary School brought her students to the UGA School of Music to…
Online Professor Makes Sure His Classes Have a Personal Touch
April 3, 2015Craig Piercy, online instructor for the Terry College of Business, makes sure that his students get the same amount of attention in an online class as they would face to face. He says that “One of the things you can’t get naturally online is the teacher-student connection. You lose that…
Professor Emeritus of LDT Co-Edited a New Book on Online Learning
April 1, 2015Dr. Thomas Reeves, Professor Emeritus of Learning, Design and Technology in the College of Education at the University of Georgia, has co-edited a book about online learning that is coming out this summer. The book, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World, goes into depth on the different applications of…
Master of Music Education Program Starts Online This Summer
March 26, 2015The University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music will offer its first online program this summer. The Master of Music Education online degree program is already taking applications. Director of the Hodgson School, Dale Monson said “Offering an online degree will open the doors of opportunity to those otherwise…