Published by: WCET | 10/18/2013
Today we welcome a young leader working at the intersection of higher education and technology, Sean Traigle, Senior Director, Academic Partnerships at StraighterLine. Sean shares his perspective on the contributions millenials stand to make to our industry and puts a call to […]
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Published by: WCET | 10/14/2013
Today’s guest blog is from Jane Hart who is a world renowned edtech expert, the founder of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT), and compiler of Top 100 Tools for Learning lists. WCET is fortunate to have Jane […]
Published by: WCET | 10/10/2013
Alternative credentials are a hot topic in higher education – from the new direct assessment competency based programs to badges to certify competency. Today, Anne Derryberry of Sage Road Solutions, LLC, shares with us the current thinking around how badges […]
Published by: WCET | 10/7/2013
Today’s guest blogger is Karen Solomon of the Higher Learning Commission, one of the regional accrediting agencies. She shares some of the e-learning emerging issues that they are following. Karen also serves as the chair of WCET’s Steering Committee. Thank […]
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Published by: WCET | 10/3/2013
As a distance education administrator you will be working with all kinds of third party vendors. In higher education we use many vendors to run our business. For distance education there are the critical systems we use, such as our […]
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Published by: WCET | 9/30/2013
After last week’s blog posting from David Cillay, Richard Katz (former WCET Executive Council member) and I had a great discussion via email. I invited Richard to provide his viewpoint. Richard served 14 years as vice president of EDUCAUSE and […]
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Published by: WCET | 9/26/2013
So many exciting things are happening in higher education these days, it could make a guy’s hair fall out (see my photo at the bottom of this post). Most of the headlines have been about “massive” education and the stories […]
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Published by: WCET | 9/19/2013
In earlier Frontiers blog posts, we heard about developing competency-based programs at Northern Arizona University and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. WCET is also currently partnering with Mozilla, Blackboard, and Sage Road Solutions in offering a MOOC on badges […]
Published by: WCET | 9/16/2013
Thank you to everyone who has been contacting us with concern for our safety in the great flood of 2013. Let’s start with: This is a BIG deal. Northern Colorado will be dealing with the aftermath of this flooding for […]
Published by: WCET | 9/13/2013
In the last several weeks there have been several developments regarding state authorization of distance education courses and programs. Here is a summary of those activities.State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement The four regional higher education compacts (Midwestern Higher Education Compact, New […]