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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 […]
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Learn. Do. Connect. Enjoy. In the Mile High City.
Published by: WCET | 9/13/2011
WCET’s 23rd Annual Conference is just around the corner. The office is a buzz with the coordination of speakers, logistics, and details for the conference. I like many of you, am wondering if we lost a month of summer, because […]
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What’s Ahead for Higher Education?
Published by: WCET | 8/23/2011
Adrian Sannier, vice president of product at Pearson eCollege, and Mark Sarver, CEO of EduKan, will be kicking off WCET”S 23rd Annual Conference, in Denver, CO on October 26-29. The duo will present about the future of technology in higher […]
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Online Ed on the New Digital Shoreline
Published by: WCET | 7/27/2011
Roger McHaney is a long-time advocate of online learning and has participated in past WCET Conferences. He is the Wiki-keeper for ELATEwiki and has recently written a book entitled ‘The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials are Revolutionizing […]
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Guest Blog: A Glimpse of the Future
Published by: WCET | 7/6/2011
Myk Garn, SREB, and Hae Okimoto, University of Hawaii, have been thinking up an exciting new addition to the WCET Annual Conference. We asked them to share their idea with you. The future is relatively hard to predict. But, future […]
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Online Ed Needs to Be More Aggressive in the Quality Debate
Published by: WCET | 6/15/2011
Diane Goldsmith is the Executive Director of the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. A long-time contributor to WCET activities, Diane is the current WCET Steering Committee Chair and serves on the WCET Executive Council. Maybe I’m just getting cranky, but I’m […]
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WCET Awarded Bill & Melinda Gates Grant on Predictive Analytics
Published by: WCET | 5/16/2011
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded WCET (the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies) a grant to identify variables that influence student retention and progression. Announced in a May 16 press release, the findings are intended to assist institutional and […]