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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 […]
Practice
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 […]
Practice
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 […]
Practice
Published by: WCET | 9/9/2013
In 1989 a group of people committed to improving access to higher education across the western region met in Denver to form a cooperative organization to leverage technology for distributed education and to advance excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning […]
Published by: WCET | 8/28/2013
Today we welcome guest blogger, Dr. Deborah Everhart, Director of Integration Strategy at Blackboard, our partner in the upcoming MOOC, Badges: New Currency for Professional Credentials which starts Sept. 9th. Deborah shares with us the tipping point for badges and […]
Published by: WCET |
Today we welcome guest blogger, Dr. Deborah Everhart, Director of Integration Strategy at Blackboard, our partner in the upcoming MOOC, Badges: New Currency for Professional Credentials which starts Sept. 9th. Deborah shares with us the tipping point for badges and […]
Published by: WCET | 8/21/2013
Welcome to our guest blogger Angela Anastacio who is Academic Integrity Manager at Florida Virtual School. While she is focused on academic cheating and plagiarism in the K-12 realm, I find that she has some lessons for us in higher […]
Published by: WCET | 8/13/2013
In our on-going series of blog posts on MOOCs, Elizabeth Allan shares her experiences as a reviewer of the “credit-worthiness” of a science MOOC. Previously, Patricia Book gave us her insight into the overall ACE review process. In this post, […]