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Keeping Institutional Decision-Making Up With New Learning Platforms
Published by: WCET | 2/16/2012
Today we welcome Phil Hill, executive vice president at Delta Initiative, as a guest blogger. Phil is a consultant and industry analyst covering the educational technology market primarily for higher education. We have seen a great deal of change in […]
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Test Proctoring: An Old Solution to a (Re)Emerging Problem
Published by: WCET | 2/10/2012
Today we welcome Peg Wherry, Director of Online Learning at Montana State University, as a guest blogger. Peg currently leads the WCET Academic Integrity and Student Authentication Subcommittee on Proctoring Practices and Policies and takes this opportunity to share with […]
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Competencies, Badges, and OER top Predictions for 2012
Published by: WCET | 1/26/2012
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 […]
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WCET’s Top Six 2011 Elearning Predictions
Published by: WCET | 1/4/2012
In the first week of 2011, WCET’s Frontiers blog posted predictions solicited from leaders of our organization and leaders in community of technology-mediated education. We asked them to predict something that will happen in 2011 about teaching, learning, technology, business […]
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Forging the Future: How Much Affordability Can Higher Education Afford?
Published by: WCET | 12/29/2011
Increased affordability is a hot topic for 2012, but just how much affordability can higher education afford? How do we increase affordability and what are the pitfalls? The Forging the Future workshop, developed and directed by Myk Garn, Southern Regional […]
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Onsite and Online learning: A Meaningful Distinction Any Longer?
Published by: WCET | 12/7/2011
Several years ago, it became clear that eportfolios were going to have a lasting impact in higher education. At that time, WCET conducted (now dated) research on the emerging eportfolio products. As an update, we asked Trent Batson of the […]
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Completely Redesigning One Institution’s Online Courses – In Just One Year
Published by: WCET | 12/1/2011
FIRST – Sorry to our subscribers who received the seemingly random post of Jo Kroll’s picture. I was trying a newer version of WordPress and made a mistake. Some parts are not quite as user friendly as I’d hoped. Russ […]
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Dispatch from Denver – Friday
Published by: WCET | 10/29/2011
Hello from the WCET Annual Conference – More fun and learning from Denver. The temperatures outside warmed up and so did the sessions inside. Here are more thoughts, comments, and things we learned today… Mike Goldstein, from the Dow Lohnes […]
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Dispatch from Denver – Thursday
Published by: WCET | 10/28/2011
Hello from the WCET Annual Conference – We are having fun with our friends here in Denver and wanted to share with you some of the thoughts, comments, and things we have learned thus far… On Monday we had record […]
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Prepping for a Smackdown
Published by: WCET | 10/12/2011
Our guest post this week is by Ritchie Boyd, Academic Technology Specialist at Montana State University, long-time WCETer and one of the best Smackdown’ers from our inaugural Smackdown powered by Pecha Kucha (learn how to pronounce it here) at the […]