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Our Commitment to Improve – An Accessibility Review of WCET’s Website
Published by: WCET | 4/28/2023
In this post, Rosa Calabrese (WCET’s Manager, Digital Design) and Russ Poulin (WCET’s Executive Director) share our organization’s journey over this past year in improving our website. We have made much progress and there is still more to be done. […]
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Where’s the Beef? Having Fun Teaching and Ensuring Regular and Substantive Interaction
Published by: WCET | 2/28/2023
I know, I know, many of you are questioning the title of today’s post … “having fun?” plus “regular and substantive interaction” … what? But, as our authors will show you, it’s totally possible. And a great idea, for your […]
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Strategies for Success Through Digital Learning 2023
Published by: WCET | 1/17/2023
Professional development is a highly important factor to our success. This is why we are sharing information on Every Learner Everywhere’s upcoming series “Strategies for Success Through Digital Learning.” This program includes access to a community of practice. Today, we’re […]
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What Faculty Designers Can Tell Us about Online Course Reviews
Published by: WCET | 1/12/2023
In 2019, I asked our readers the question “how do you ensure quality in online courses?” This question was part of my introduction to a fantastic article written by Aimee deNoyelles from the University of Central Florida. Aimee discussed UCF’s […]
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A Hopefully Interesting Introduction to Passwords
Published by: WCET | 9/8/2022
Password security is, simultaneously, one of the most important and most hated aspects of cybersecurity. To many – myself included – it’s frustrating and confounding that everyone should need so many passwords, each of which contain more complex characters, just […]
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Mental Health Awareness and Care in Higher Education
Published by: WCET | 7/21/2022
Today I’m thankful to welcome, again, Kara Monroe, President and Founder of Monarch Strategies LLC to continue her Frontiers series on leadership in higher education digital learning. This post, a reflection on mental health, especially as it pertains to caring for […]
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Accreditation, Quality, and Changes in Digital Learning
Published by: WCET | 5/17/2022
The changing nature of digital learning and postsecondary education in the post-COVID era has brought new opportunities and challenges for the quality assurance provided by the accreditation process. In a preview of a plenary session to be held at the […]
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Don’t Lick Any Doorknobs and Roll Tide – Virtual Bama Bound and Shifting Operations
Published by: WCET | 9/14/2021
Today we continue our celebration of 2021 WOW awardees with a post from Rachel S. Thompson, Director, Center for Instructional Technology Office of Information Technology with The University of Alabama. When the higher education world moved online due to the […]
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From -A to -S: One University’s approach to designing audience-minded, context-driven online course development frameworks
Published by: WCET | 9/1/2021
Today we begin one of my favorite parts of the year – and no, it’s not pumpkin spice season (although that is up there…), it’s WOW celebration season! For the next several weeks, WCET Frontiers will feature blog post authors […]
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Distributed Leadership Can Help with Recovery After the Pandemic
Published by: WCET | 6/25/2021
Today I am happy to welcome Vickie Cook with the University of Illinois Springfield, who joins us to discuss recent study undertaken on distributed leadership models and the experiences of using such models in our daily educational work. Thank you […]