Published by: WCET | 4/16/2014
The U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking Committee is discussing the return of the federal regulation requiring institutions to be authorized in each state in which it enrolls students eligible for Title IV financial aid. The Committee meets next week […]
Published by: WCET | 4/9/2014
State U Online: An Overview Last year, New America published State U Online, a report I wrote after over a year of research. The project, which was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Lumina Foundation, was based […]
Published by: WCET | 4/7/2014
April 7, 2014 Provide your input on some proposed federal regulations regarding state authorization and distance education. If you are concerned, inform the Department of Education. The U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking Committee is discussing the possible return of […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 4/2/2014
In an ideal world, we would all have custom, personalized support standing at the ready to provide just-in-time response to our need for guidance and support. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could provide this for faculty developing online courses […]
Published by: WCET | 3/24/2014
March 24, 2014 On March 20, I posted the new language proposed by the U.S. Department of Education staff regarding federal requirements for the state authorization of distance education. In that post, I asked for comments and I received quite […]
Published by: WCET | 3/20/2014
March 20, 2014 As you may know, I was selected to the U.S. Department of Education’s Program Integrity Negotiated Rulemaking Committee. One of the regulations that we are considering is the federal rules regarding the state authorization of institutions offering […]
Published by: WCET | 3/19/2014
March 19, 2014 Let’s play a game. What percentage of all distance education enrollments occur in for-profit institutions? In private, non-profits? In public institutions? Hold onto your guesses as we’ll get to the answers later in this blog post. The […]
Published by: WCET | 3/11/2014
March 11, 2014 This is the third in a series of blog posts examining data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey on distance education (DE) enrollments. Our first blog post in this series looked at students […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 3/7/2014
This is the second in a series of blog posts examining data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey on distance education enrollments. Our first blog post in this series looked at the percentage of students enrolled […]
Published by: WCET | 3/5/2014
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 Straut crunched the data for WCET. Terri has a […]