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Promising Practices for Navigating “What’s Next”
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/23/2020 | 1 comments
I have long marveled at how quickly and effectively WCET pivots to support its members when we most need assistance. Remember the announcement of new guidelines that regional accreditors were going to use to evaluate distance education (CRAC-2001)? State authorization enforcement by the Department of Education? WCET helped us navigate around those icebergs. The Coronavirus […]
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Open in a Time of Crisis
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/16/2020 | 3 comments
As an ongoing part of WCET’s efforts to help faculty and staff respond to the pandemic, today Dr. Tanya Spilovoy, our resident Open Educational Resources (OER) expert, takes a look at the role openness and OER can play as institutions move away from rushing to deliver remote instruction to more deliberately designed online courses for […]
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New Regulations #3: Direct Assessment and Competency-Based Education
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/13/2020 | 3 comments
In case you missed it, the Department of Education finally released the last set of regulations from its epic 2019 negotiated rulemaking process on April 1st. And, no, it wasn’t an April Fool’s Day joke. This is the third and final part of WCET’s analysis of the proposed rules. Part one of our analysis details […]
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What’s Next? Surviving in Lifeboats. Getting to Summer Term and Beyond.
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/8/2020 | 3 comments
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 topics aimed at helping you prepare for the summer term and beyond. Many of these […]
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Meet AURS — Your Go-To Resource for Addressing Accessibility Challenges
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 9/27/2019 | 3 comments
Accessibility is not only one of the main areas of focus for WCET, but a consistent issue and opportunity for higher education institutions. In order to support faculty, instructional designers, and others who work in the area, Quality Matters, a WCET member, created a new resource site for educators to get information on how to […]
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Adaptive Learning: The Future is Up to Us
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 8/8/2019 | 0 comments
Today we’re excited to welcome back Patricia O’Sullivan, the Program Manager for Externally Funded Academic Innovation Projects at the University of Mississippi. Patti inspired us last year with the University of Mississippi’s work in this area to help their students and improve student success. Today she’s back to Frontiers to consider what’s happening with adaptive […]
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Expanding access, success, and equitable outcomes through the effective implementation of digital learning
Published by: Erin Noelle Walton | 2/21/2019 | 0 comments
A Sense of Urgency Many public colleges and universities have embraced the mission of increasing access to higher education by recruiting more diverse student populations. Unfortunately, institutions continue to see significant persistence and completion gaps for their low-income students, students of color, and first-generation students. In response to this problem, many two- and four-year institutions […]
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Transforming Our Model for Student Success: The WRAP Initiative
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 10/19/2018 | 0 comments
Welcome to the final blog post in our WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award blog post series! Today we are joined by Jason M. Ruckert from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide, to discuss their 2018 WOW Award winning initiative: Worldwide Retention, Affinity, and Persistence or WRAP. The WRAP initiative encompasses immersive solutions which include the incorporation […]
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Student Device Preferences for Online Course Access and Multimedia Learning
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/12/2018 | 0 comments
What technology devices do you have close to you right now? I have a desktop computer, two laptops, a Smartwatch, and a Smartphone. Students also have a numerous devices which they use for a variety of different purposes. But do you know what devices your students prefer? Do these preferences change depending on the reasons […]
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Relaunching the EdSurge Product Index
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/5/2017 | 3 comments
Hello! This week we welcome Sunny Lee, the Senior Product Manager with Higher Ed at EdSurge. The EdSurge HigherEd team just completed a total relaunch of their courseware product index, which is a system to help higher education administrators search and find courseware. It’s been great to learn more about this relaunch, as well as […]