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What I Learned About Adapting Content – Working with Vendors & Publishers
Published by: WCET | 4/13/2016
So you have decided you want to adapt a course and you are just beginning to learn more about the process and work involved. In this blog post, I will share my personal experience of working through the adaptive process, […]
Breaking News on “Teacher Prep” Regulations for Distance Education
Published by: WCET | 4/1/2016
Today, the U.S. Department of Education released a new set of proposed regulations for those educating our future teachers at a distance. The long-delayed “Teacher Prep” regulations could cause more complications for colleges of education using distance education to serve […]
In Response to Opposition of the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements
Published by: WCET | 3/29/2016
This post originally appeared as an opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed. Thanks to Phil Hill, e-Literate, and Russ Poulin, WCET, for debumking the myths being spread about SARA in New York. A coalition of consumer groups, legal aid organizations and unions […]
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Edtech is a Human Experience: My First SXSWedu
Published by: WCET | 3/14/2016
Sometimes you have to start at the end to see the beginning more clearly. On my {somewhat delayed} journey home from SXSWedu, our Mike Abbiatti posed the question, “if technology is all it’s cracked up to be, why do we spend so […]
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What Colleges Should Be Doing with Open Educational Resources, At Scale!
Published by: WCET | 2/26/2016
Today we’re honored to welcome TJ Bliss, Program Officer, Education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to share with us the learning the Foundation has garnered in over 15 years of supporting open educational resource projects. Thank you, TJ […]
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Higher Education in the Year 2050: The Age of IoT Global Connectivity
Published by: WCET | 1/21/2016
Have you met Robbie Melton, Tennessee’s emerging education technologies evangelist? We sent her back to the future and an in today’s guest blog post, she shares what she found there. Thank you Robbie! What are your thoughts about the future? […]
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Emergence of the Linked Services Sector in American Higher Ed & Lifelong Learning
Published by: WCET | 1/14/2016
By now, it borders on trite to declare that American higher education, and, in fact, global higher education stands on the precipice of dynamic, revolutionary, and disruptive change. But the cards that I see being dealt as we enter 2016 […]
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WCET, OLC, & UPCEA Partner on Higher Ed Act for the 21st Century Learner
Published by: WCET | 1/12/2016
WCET partners with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) in creating a unified voice on pending federal regulations for today’s higher education students. By working together, we can have more impact on […]
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The Promise of Adaptivity
Published by: WCET | 12/8/2015
WCET seeks to raise awareness on the why, how and what of adaptive learning; to develop a community of faculty, administrators, designers and providers to share promising practices and ideas; and for WCET to be a valuable resource on this […]
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NROC, EdReady, and Continuous Innovation
Published by: WCET | 12/3/2015
For those who attended the annual meeting, you already had in introduction to EdReady by The NROC Project as a 2015 WOW Award winner. They created a great video that explains the basis of the project, but we asked Ahrash […]