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COMING ATTRACTIONS:

WEBCASTS -
March 8: Innovative Education Applications for Badging and Gaming in Higher Education.

March 14: What You Need to Know About State Authorization (Open to WCET and WCET State Authorization Network Members).

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WEBCAST: Fraud and Beyond: Distance Education and New Financial Aid Rules

Join Karen McCarthy and Joan Berkes with National Association of Student Financial Aid and Administrators and Audrey Osswald with Colorado Community College System.

Register today for this February 1 Webcast!

 

WCET Frontiers Blog

Competencies, Badges, and OER top Predictions for 2012

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our call for elearning predictions for 2012.  We received quite a variety of opinions on what we can expect for the coming year. There seemed to be plenty of worries about what others will do to us rather than for us.  The impacts of competencies and badges are on the minds of several of ...

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WOW Award Recipient "Rio Salado College - Peer-to-Peer Plagiarism Project" Succeeds in Tackling Student Plagiarism

This is the second in a series of conversations with the 2010 recipients of the WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award. Rio Salado College's Peer-to-Peer Plagiarism Detector is a home-grown tool that compares student writings with those submitted in previous sections or semesters. Possible infractions are flagged.

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