New on WCET Frontiers
Reviewing US News Release of Honor Rolls of Online Education
Published by: WCET | 1/10/2012
The moment has arrived. The ‘mother of all rankings,’ also known as the US News and World Report rankings, have birthed their newest baby where they list the “Top Online Programs.” Rather than an overall institutional ranking they have created […]
Learner Progress: Capturing the Adult Learner
Published by: WCET | 12/14/2011
Cali Morrison, Transparency by Design Project Director, brings to Frontiers the process by which the Transparency by Design initiative created the recently launched learner progress metrics available on its website College Choices for Adults. The Problem Transparency by Design (TbD) […]
Ignoring state authorization? How long can you tread water?
Published by: WCET | 11/21/2011
As part of our coverage of the state authorization issue, we at WCET have met several regulators charged with enforcing those rules. We asked Alan Contreras, who recently retired from Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization and is now a higher […]
Questions about Online Learning? Respond to the Managing Online Ed Survey.
Published by: WCET | 11/16/2011
You get questions. We get questions. What are other campuses doing about the issues that vex you? How do you know? There is only one way to find out, ask them. And there is only one way for us share […]
More than One Path to Meeting the Adult Degree Completion BIG GOAL
Published by: WCET | 10/20/2011
Lumina Foundation has a BIG GOAL: To increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by the year 2025. Over the past several years, they have supported many projects that are of sufficient scale to […]
Learning Analytics Lessons from Moneyball
Published by: WCET | 10/5/2011
by Ellen Wagner, WCET Executive Director The recent release of the movie Moneyball has drawn attention to an idea that has also been top of mind at WCET in recent months: What might happen if we used advanced statistical methods […]
No ‘Deus Ex Machina’ on State Authorization
Published by: WCET | 9/22/2011
Ancient Greek playwrights would sometimes write themselves into a corner. The intricate plot, which was so carefully developed through the initial acts, did not lend itself to an easy resolution in the finale. One answer was to let the gods […]
WICHE Internet Course Exchange—A Solution for Institutions with Declining Budgets
Published by: WCET | 9/8/2011
Guest post by Kelley Brandt, Assistant Director of Distance Education at Boise State University. Kelley also serves as the WICHE ICE PIC Coordinator organizing communications and activities among the participating institutional representatives. Broadening student access to experts through collaboration Social […]
To Enter the “Ranks” or Not…
Published by: WCET | 9/1/2011
At the end of July, I moderated a webcast for WCET with Bob Morse and Eric Brooks from US News and World Report regarding their forthcoming ranking of online education. The purpose of the webcast was to answer the questions […]
Further Clarification about Federal Complaint Process Requirement
Published by: WCET | 8/10/2011
We have received a lot of questions about the complaint process portion of the federal student complaint process regulation since Russ’s July 19 blog Federal Student Complaint Regulation- Clarifying Misconceptions. My sense is that some are panicking at the thought […]