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Competencies, Badges, and OER top Predictions for 2012

Published by: WCET | 1/26/2012

Thank you to everyone who participated in our call for elearning predictions for 2012.  We received quite a variety of opinions on what we can expect for the coming year. There seemed to be plenty of worries about what others […]

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Black bars around the Internet

Published by: WCET | 1/18/2012

As you may have noticed, many sites around the web have gone black today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA – H.R. 3261) in the House and the Protect IP Act (PIPA – S.968) in the Senate. We […]

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Reviewing US News Release of Honor Rolls of Online Education

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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WCET’s Top Six 2011 Elearning Predictions

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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Forging the Future: How Much Affordability Can Higher Education Afford?

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 […]

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Learner Progress: Capturing the Adult Learner

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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Onsite and Online learning: A Meaningful Distinction Any Longer?

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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Ignoring state authorization? How long can you tread water?

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 […]

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