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Ensuring Quality in Alternative Higher Education: Quality Matters’ Perspectives

Published by: WCET | 5/20/2015

Today we learn with Deb Adair, Managing Director and Chief Planning Officer, Quality Matters and Julie Porosky Hamlin, Executive Director, MarylandOnline; Member, Quality Matters Board of Directors their perspective on quality assurance for alternative higher education.  Thank you Deb and Julie for […]

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DEAC Announces Peer Review Process for Non-traditional Distance Ed Providers

Published by: WCET | 4/16/2015

How do students judge the quality of distance education courses?  The Distance Education Accrediting Commission’s (DEAC) new quality review process helps students to make that evaluation. Traditional colleges have accreditation. Accrediting agencies traditionally provide peer-review evaluations to (according to the […]

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Goodbye Lake Wobegone: Proposed Teacher Prep Regulations and Distance Ed

Published by: WCET | 12/12/2014

December 12, 2014 It was a quiet week in Lake Wobegone… …and then new Teacher Prep regulations were released. On December 3rd, the U.S. Department of Education released proposed new accountability regulations for teacher preparation programs.  Public comment will be […]

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New Gainful Employment Regulations Tied to State Authorization

Published by: WCET | 10/30/2014

This morning, the U.S. Department of Education released a 945 page document describing its new “Gainful Employment” (GE) regulations. An informal version is available on the Department’s website and the final version will be published in the Federal Register on […]

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Education Department Urges Colleges to Follow IPEDS Distance Ed Definitions

Published by: WCET | 10/17/2014

In an extended conversation with the U.S. Department of Education (US ED) IPEDS personnel, they confirmed which distance education enrollment counts colleges should be reporting to the Department’s IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) survey. The Department representatives also wondered […]

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Proposed Safeguards Against Financial Aid Fraud: Some Needed, Some Go Too Far

Published by: WCET | 2/26/2014

February 26, 2014 New regulations and reporting requirements to help battle federal financial aid fraud for institutions that offer distance education are coming.  No doubt, additional protections are needed tools to combat financial aid fraud.  The distance education community needs […]

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Badges, Credits and Accreditation

Published by: WCET | 10/10/2013

Alternative credentials are a hot topic in higher education – from the new direct assessment competency based programs to badges to certify competency.  Today, Anne Derryberry of Sage Road Solutions, LLC, shares with us the current thinking around how badges […]

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Accreditators are Monitoring the Changing e-Learning Environment

Published by: WCET | 10/7/2013

Today’s guest blogger is Karen Solomon of the Higher Learning Commission, one of the regional accrediting agencies.  She shares some of the e-learning emerging issues that they are following. Karen also serves as the chair of WCET’s Steering Committee.  Thank […]

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Steps in Forming a Good Partnership with Third Party Vendors

Published by: WCET | 10/3/2013

As a distance education administrator you will be working with all kinds of third party vendors. In higher education we use many vendors to run our business.  For distance education there are the critical systems we use, such as our […]

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ACE’s First Review of MOOCs for Academic Credit

Published by: WCET | 7/25/2013

Over the next few weeks, WCET will publish a series of blog posts on Massively Open Online Courses.  Given the amount of press that MOOCs have received over the past year, you must be wondering why we need more writings […]

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