New on WCET Frontiers
The Military Advances on Credentialing and Quality Reviews: Pay Attention
Published by: WCET | 3/13/2017
Military personnel and veterans are eager to learn…and most of them do so using educational technologies and distance learning. Given that the United States has been involved in two wars for more than a decade, how do they defend the […]
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Reimagining Higher Education and the National Technology Plan
Published by: WCET | 7/11/2016
On the last day of June, the U.S. Department of Education hosted an invitation-only session on “Reimagining Higher Education.” I was very pleased to represent WCET members. Here are some of the top takeaways and notice that they are planning […]
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21st Century Credentials: Telling the Story of the Whole Student
Published by: WCET | 6/23/2016
Earlier this month WCET’ers gathered in Salt Lake City to have frank discussions and hear from leading experts in the somewhat nebulous construct of 21st Century Credentials. There is no way I can replicate the conversations held, the discussions, the […]
The Case for CACE: The Consortium for the Assessment of College Equivalency
Published by: WCET | 6/2/2016
Sometimes in higher education common sense and doing the right thing for students supersede competition, policies, and politics (SARA may quickly come to mind). An example, the newly-minted Consortium for the Assessment of College Equivalency (CACE), formed officially in 2015, […]
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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 […]
Connected Credentials and the Value of Competencies
Published by: WCET | 3/9/2016
We’re happy to welcome Deb Everhart, Georgetown University, back to the Frontiers blog. Today Deb is sharing work she did with ACE on connected credentials and the value of competencies. Our own Mike Abbiatti worked on this with her and […]
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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 […]
IPEDS Changes Will Improve Available Data on Non-traditional Students, yet…
Published by: WCET | 11/19/2015
Today we welcome our WICHE colleague, Christina Sedney, project coordinator for the Adult College Completion Network (ACCN), as she shares with us the changes to IPEDS reporting that will improve, if not drastically at least incrementally, the data we have […]
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 […]