New on WCET Frontiers
Highlights of Distance Education Enrollment Trends from IPEDS Fall 2014
Published by: WCET | 12/21/2015
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released the third year of Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data that reports Distance Education (DE) student enrollment for the Fall of 2014. This is […]
State Authorization & Supervised Field Experiences: Easier Than You Think
Published by: WCET | 12/15/2015
We welcome guest blogger Alan Contreras who is a former regulator for the state of Oregon and is the chief interpreter (not his official title) for all the details of how states and colleges are implementing SARA (the State Authorization […]
IPEDS Changes Will Improve Available Data on Non-traditional Students, yet…
Published by: WCET | 11/19/2015
Today we welcome our WICHE colleague, Christina Sedney, project coordinator for the Adult College Completion Network (ACCN), as she shares with us the changes to IPEDS reporting that will improve, if not drastically at least incrementally, the data we have […]
Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact Promotes Interstate Distance Ed and Telehealth
Published by: WCET | 11/11/2015
Thank you to Nancy Spector for her guest blog post. You can see her in the WCET Annual Meeting session on Interstate Agreements in State Authorization on Wednesday, November 11 at 3:30. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing […]
EQUIP: Ed Department Seeks Experimental College-Provider Financial Aid Partnerships
Published by: WCET | 10/26/2015
Students at “non-traditional providers” of postsecondary education will have a chance to earn federal financial aid through experimental partnerships recently announced by the U.S. Department of Education. To participate, providers are expected to partner with “traditional” institutions that currently offer […]
A Review of the Department of Education’s New College Scorecard Website
Published by: WCET | 9/13/2015
Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Education released its long-awaited College Scorecard. Originally envisioned as a way to help the Department in determining whether institutions should remain eligible to offer financial aid, the focus is now on student-as-consumer information. […]
Six Common Myths about State Authorization for Distance Education
Published by: WCET | 7/23/2015
This week the WCET State Authorization Network is hosting its second State Authorization Compliance Workshop in Denver. In discussing the contents for this event, we started stumbling on some common myths that we keep hearing about state authorization and distance […]
How a Technical Call Center Added Financial Aid Calls – and Thrived!
Published by: WCET | 7/16/2015
After 10 years of providing technical support for e-Learning solutions, the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium’s (CTDLC) Call Center was presented with an interesting opportunity. The CFO of our parent organization, Charter Oak State College, approached us to ask whether we […]
Update on the Five Types of State Authorization Regulations
Published by: WCET | 6/28/2015
Hello from Washington, DC and the NACUA (National Association of College and University Attorneys) Annual Conference. As part of my role on a state authorization panel, I was asked to give an overview of the Department of Education’s state authorization […]
Ensuring Quality in Alternative Higher Education: Quality Matters’ Perspectives
Published by: WCET | 5/20/2015
Today we learn with Deb Adair, Managing Director and Chief Planning Officer, Quality Matters and Julie Porosky Hamlin, Executive Director, MarylandOnline; Member, Quality Matters Board of Directors their perspective on quality assurance for alternative higher education. Thank you Deb and Julie for […]