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What’s Next? Surviving in Lifeboats. Getting to Summer Term and Beyond.
Published by: WCET | 4/8/2020
This week WCET is starting a new series of blog posts on what distance education leaders should be thinking about as we move past the initial pivot to remote learning. The series, “What’s Next?” will focus on a variety of […]
Policy
Continuing Our Regulatory Odyssey: Final Accreditation Regulations
Published by: WCET | 11/22/2019
Earlier this year, the Department of Education engaged in negotiated rulemaking around several issues including state authorization and reciprocity, accreditation, distance education and innovation, regular and substantive interaction, competency-based education (CBE), TEACH grants, and faith-based institutions. Despite all odds and […]
Practice
Three Keys to Opening the Door for OER
Published by: WCET | 11/6/2019
Today marks the finale for our 2019 WOW Award series. The WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Awards honor member institutions and organizations that develop technology-based solutions to challenging educational needs. As we mentioned last week, we have three outstanding award winning […]
Practice
Show me the money: Shifting legislative conversations about the cost of distance education
Published by: WCET | 10/4/2019
Online education can often be polarizing—some advocates champion it as higher education’s savior, bringing access and affordability to students across the globe. Others see it as the modern equivalent of a Trojan horse come to assault the quality of higher […]
Practice
California to Open a New Community College and Progress at the Other 114
Published by: WCET | 9/30/2019
If you could start completely from scratch, how would you design an institution of higher education? The California Community College System plans to open its 115th institution in October. And it is an interesting answer to that question. Based upon […]
Practice
Living with Exigency
Published by: WCET | 9/20/2019
Today we welcome David Dannenberg, the Director of Academic Innovations, State Authorization, and eLearning with the University of Alaska Anchorage. David joins us to discuss the economic issues facing higher education in Alaska and his reactions to the financial exigency […]
Practice
New Federal Regulations Ready for Your Comments – Accreditation-Related Regulations
Published by: WCET | 6/14/2019
This is the second of two posts on the new regulations that the U.S. Department of Education released in the Federal Register earlier this week. The first post focused on state authorization and student notification issues. This post focuses on […]
Practice
New Federal Regulations Ready for Your Comments – State Authorization and Student Notifications
Published by: WCET | 6/13/2019
The Federal Rulemaking process has taken its next step. The U.S. Department of Education released in the Federal Register a portion of the proposed regulations. This first set of regulations focuses on accreditation and state authorization. The proposed language came […]
Practice
Ivy Tech’s ‘Innovation Day’ Supports Promising Faculty Ideas
Published by: WCET | 3/29/2019
Thank you to Kara Monroe for today’s WCET Frontiers guest blog post. Kara is the Provost and Senior Vice President at Ivy Tech Community College and also serves on the WCET Steering Committee. During Ivy Tech’s Innovation Day, faculty have […]
Practice
Let the DATA drive: Washington community & technical college’s journey to establish OER and Low-Cost codes
Published by: WCET | 3/21/2019
In this blog, Mark Jenkins and Boyoung Chae detail the vital benefits of using a data-driven approach in OER initiatives to promote affordability and student success for Washington’s Community and Technical Colleges. Their approach helped to meet two important goals: […]