AI Literacy Frameworks Fact Sheet

Supporting Governance, Operations, and Instruction and Learning Through Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Institutional Practices and Policies 2025

Supporting Governance, Operations, and Instruction & Learning Through Artificial Intelligence shares findings from a national survey on how higher education institutions are adopting and governing AI. The report highlights current uses, institutional maturity, support strategies, barriers, and emerging benefits. It also looks ahead, offering recommendations for coordinated, responsible AI integration across governance, operations, and instruction to help institutions increase efficiency, foster innovation, and prepare for the future of digital learning.

Making the Case for Digital Learning

This guide helps digital learning leaders build institutional support through stakeholder case studies, change management principles, and tools to align with strategic goals and foster engagement. As digital learning evolves, strong change management is critical, yet few institutions integrate digital learning into strategic plans, and many leaders lack formal training in this area. This resource encourages reflection on your institution’s approach to change and offers strategies to strengthen your impact.

Where AI Meets Accessibility: Considerations for Higher Education

As AI becomes increasingly embedded into educational settings and practices, it offers both opportunities and challenges. This comprehensive resource will help navigate both aspects— demonstrating how AI can help overcome technology barriers and highlighting areas where it may inadvertently create new obstacles for people with disabilities (PWD).

Our goal is to shift the conversation around AI in higher education beyond topics like academic integrity or the student experience, and instead encourage a focus on how AI can promote accessibility and inclusion. The resource includes various recommendations for integrating accessible AI across different areas of higher education. It is also a practical toolkit complete with example activities, discussion questions, and reading lists.

WCET Fact Sheet: New Accessibility Requirements for Web Content and Mobile Applications for Public Entities

This resource is a WCET Fact Sheet on the 2024 accessibility requirements for web content and mobile applications for public entities. The quick-reference guide provides an overview of the new regulations, highlighting key changes, compliance deadlines, impact, enforcement, and additional resources.

Distance Education’s Disconnect: Understanding the Relationship Between the Cost and Price of Distance Education

This report revisits WCET’s 2016 study on the relationship between the cost and price of distance education, reflecting on how the landscape has shifted post-pandemic. With 63.94% of students now taking at least one distance education course, the report analyzes findings from WCET’s 2024 survey, exploring current trends in tuition, fees, and the costs of offering online courses. That report concluded with a list of recommendations for policymakers and distance education leaders.

Access For All: New Accessibility Rules for Public Entities

Overview of New Accessibility Requirements for Web and Mobile Applications for Public Entities, Including Colleges and Universities.

Leading the AI Revolution: The Crucial Role of HBCUs in Steering AI Leadership

A Joint Publication of the Online Learning Consortium, WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, and Complete College America.

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) presents an unprecedented opportunity for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to lead in an era characterized by rapid technological advancement and societal transformation. This report explores the integral role HBCUs can play in steering the AI revolution, ensuring that the Black community remains at the forefront of educational, economic, and social progress.

WCET Closer Look – Professional Licensure Increased Responsibilities 

WCET Closer Look – Quality Digital Learning

The goal of this Closer Look is to provide a foundational understanding of how programs and institutions can ensure the quality of their digital learning courses and programs.

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