What’s New at Mason Online

Have you heard about the Online Virginia Network (OVN)? Since May 2017, George Mason University has been a part of this state-supported initiative. In partnership with Old Dominion University and Virginia’s Community Colleges, Mason is targeting adult learners, many of…

When Dr. Melissa Broeckelman-Post joined the Mason community in fall of 2013, she and colleague Lance Schmeidler immediately set to work rebuilding the Basic Course curriculum. Leveraging Schmeidler’s decade of institutional knowledge with Broeckelman-Post’s background in the field, the duo…

This semester, Dr. Margaret Slavin wanted to try something new in her online section of NUTR 295: Introduction to Nutrition. Following a three-day Online Learning Consortium (OLC) workshop, Dr. Slavin was intrigued by the idea of using an interactive syllabus…

Housed in Mason’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), the Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning (ASTL) curriculum focuses on helping K-12 professionals to achieve a deeper understanding of student learning, improve students’ classroom performance, and meet individual student…

Offered online every semester, KINE 310: Exercise Physiology I introduces Mason students to the physiologic, neuroendocrine, and biochemical changes of the human body that occur with exercise. KINE 310 is part of the BS in Kinesiology curriculum. This course covers…

Members of Mason’s Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program have developed and released a series of professional development videos for teachers of writing in all disciplines. These videos are provided below. For more information, please visit wac.gmu.edu. P.A.R.C. Initiative The…

One of only a few science courses that does not require a lab component, EVPP 201: Environment and You: Issues for the Twenty-First Century introduces students to broad aspects of human-environmental interactions in the contemporary world. Partially fulfilling the natural…

One of the first of its kind, Mason’s hybrid online Education Leadership master’s program for mathematics specialists prepares teachers to take on leadership roles and explore school-based leadership issues. A required course for the program, Dr. Courtney Baker’s newly online…

Open to all majors and fulfilling the Mason Core global understanding requirement, RELI 100: The Human Religious Experience allows students to expand their global mindset through the examination of various religious expressions and traditions in the contemporary world. Professor Susan…