Published by: WCET | 1/10/2012
The moment has arrived. The ‘mother of all rankings,’ also known as the US News and World Report rankings, have birthed their newest baby where they list the “Top Online Programs.” Rather than an overall institutional ranking they have created […]
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Published by: WCET | 1/4/2012
In the first week of 2011, WCET’s Frontiers blog posted predictions solicited from leaders of our organization and leaders in community of technology-mediated education. We asked them to predict something that will happen in 2011 about teaching, learning, technology, business […]
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Published by: WCET | 12/29/2011
Increased affordability is a hot topic for 2012, but just how much affordability can higher education afford? How do we increase affordability and what are the pitfalls? The Forging the Future workshop, developed and directed by Myk Garn, Southern Regional […]
Published by: WCET | 12/14/2011
Cali Morrison, Transparency by Design Project Director, brings to Frontiers the process by which the Transparency by Design initiative created the recently launched learner progress metrics available on its website College Choices for Adults. The Problem Transparency by Design (TbD) […]
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Published by: WCET | 12/7/2011
Several years ago, it became clear that eportfolios were going to have a lasting impact in higher education. At that time, WCET conducted (now dated) research on the emerging eportfolio products. As an update, we asked Trent Batson of the […]
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Published by: WCET | 12/1/2011
FIRST – Sorry to our subscribers who received the seemingly random post of Jo Kroll’s picture. I was trying a newer version of WordPress and made a mistake. Some parts are not quite as user friendly as I’d hoped. Russ […]
Published by: WCET | 11/21/2011
As part of our coverage of the state authorization issue, we at WCET have met several regulators charged with enforcing those rules. We asked Alan Contreras, who recently retired from Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization and is now a higher […]
Published by: WCET | 11/16/2011
You get questions. We get questions. What are other campuses doing about the issues that vex you? How do you know? There is only one way to find out, ask them. And there is only one way for us share […]
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Published by: WCET | 10/29/2011
Hello from the WCET Annual Conference – More fun and learning from Denver. The temperatures outside warmed up and so did the sessions inside. Here are more thoughts, comments, and things we learned today… Mike Goldstein, from the Dow Lohnes […]
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Published by: WCET | 10/28/2011
Hello from the WCET Annual Conference – We are having fun with our friends here in Denver and wanted to share with you some of the thoughts, comments, and things we have learned thus far… On Monday we had record […]