Practice
Published by: WCET | 4/22/2015
Tony Bates has had a distinguished career promoting distance learning and open learning and content initiatives around the world. Today Tony shares with us his latest book – an online, open textbook – as a resource for those teaching in our current digital […]
Published by: WCET | 4/16/2015
How do students judge the quality of distance education courses? The Distance Education Accrediting Commission’s (DEAC) new quality review process helps students to make that evaluation. Traditional colleges have accreditation. Accrediting agencies traditionally provide peer-review evaluations to (according to the […]
Published by: WCET | 4/7/2015
Many pressures on higher education make the services of the North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) essential. These include growing enrollments in online courses while campus enrollments decline, the need to provide flexibility for nontraditional students, a growing […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 4/1/2015
Accessibility is a concern across all of technology-enhanced education. At BCcampus, they wanted to help content creators incorporate accessible practices into their open materials. Amanda Coolidge, Open Education manager at BCcampus, shares with us how they crafted the BC Open Textbook […]
Published by: WCET | 3/24/2015
Those of us in WCET’s State Authorization Network (SAN) and in the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (NC-SARA) leadership often get asked the questions: “Does anyone really enforce ‘state authorization’ in the U.S.?” “Why don’t I read in the higher education […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 3/18/2015
A long time supporter of WCET, we are delighted to hear from Tricia Donovan, executive Director of eCampusAblerta today. Thank you, Tricia, for sharing with us eCA’s work in developing the quality eToolkit. eCampusAlberta is a consortium of 26 publicly funded post-secondary […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 3/12/2015
This is the third in a series of three blog posts examining the 2013 IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey and its counts of distance education enrollments. The first blog focused on the 2013 survey statistics and the second compared the growth […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 3/10/2015
The first blog post in this series analyzed the Fall 2013 distance education enrollment data (as released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey) sector-by-sector. The post revealed that one-of-four students took at least one distance education course and […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 3/5/2015
This is the first of a series of posts providing insight on data regarding enrollments in distance education that was released by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this year. Terri Taylor Straut crunched the data for WCET. Terri has […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 2/24/2015
Today we hear from Peter Smith, Founding President, Open College @ Kaplan University and chair of the WCET Executive Council. Thank you Peter for your insights today and the leadership you provide your Cooperative. It is a tremendous honor to […]