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What’s Next? #2: Wichita State and Broward College Move Forward on an Uncharted Journey
Published by: WCET | 4/10/2020
Today we provide our second installment of the “What’s Next” stories, featuring the experiences of colleges and universities moving from the initial rapid deployment phase to the next phase of planning for how to deal with the reality of medium-term […]
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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 […]
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New Regulations Review #2: Credit Hour, Title IV Eligibility, & What Exactly is a Week?
Published by: WCET | 4/6/2020
On April 1st, the Department of Education finally released the last set of regulations from its epic 2019 negotiated rulemaking process. On April 3rd WCET posted an analysis of proposed changes to the definition of distance education including (finally) a […]
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New Regulations Review #1: Regular & Substantive Interaction
Published by: WCET | 4/3/2020
Much to everyone’s surprise, the Department of Education finally released the last set of regulations from last year’s negotiated rulemaking for public comment on April 1st (and it wasn’t an April Fool’s Day joke—we checked). This post will examine the […]
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WCET’s EdTech Community Rallies Against COVID-19 Challenges
Published by: WCET | 4/1/2020
The WCET member discussions over the past two weeks (has it really only been a few weeks since schools announced closures?) have vibrantly shown the collaborative and supportive nature of our community of edtech leaders and practitioners. This is an […]
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Keeping Accessibility in Mind During the COVID-19 Conversion of Courses
Published by: WCET | 3/24/2020
We welcome today’s guest post from Cyndi Rowland, Executive Director of WebAIM (at Utah State University) which empowers organizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities. Cyndi gives us great and compassionate advice for teachers and faculty […]
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Evaluating Faculty Participation in Online Workshops
Published by: WCET | 2/27/2020
Last week we welcomed Lynn Wahl, Instructional Designer for UNC Charlotte, to discuss how they used design thinking to create online faculty development workshops. In a continuation of the topic, Lynn joins us today to talk about how to assess […]
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Design Thinking for Faculty Pedagogy Training
Published by: WCET | 2/21/2020
Have you heard of design thinking? This process is a non-linear, iterative process that focuses on understanding users and redefining problems to create innovative solutions and prototype said solutions to make them even better (interaction-design.org). We can use design thinking […]
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What do they still need to learn? The Impact of Smartphones on Curriculum
Published by: WCET | 1/28/2020
Hold on, let me finish up one thing on my phone. Okay, I’m finished! Now, onto our post. I don’t know about you, but it can be hard for me to put my smartphone down sometimes. This relatively small device […]
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Using a Research-Based Approach – It’s Up to Us
Published by: WCET | 12/4/2019
Today we welcome Andria Schwegler, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the Master of Science Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University – Central Texas. Andria joins us to discuss the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and the opportunity such […]