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Avoiding a “Road to Nowhere:” What We Must Do This Fall
Published by: WCET | 6/22/2020
In 1985 The Talking Heads released “Road to Nowhere.” That song, and that metaphor, have been on my mind a lot lately as I think about where higher education is going in the fall and beyond. Photo by Illiya Vjestica […]
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Online Learning: Let Students Learn Where They Are
Published by: WCET | 6/4/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to move their face-to-face courses to remote and online formats. Instructors heroically worked to ensure continuity of learning for their students. Considering this shift online, Anna Porcaro, the Executive Director of Online Learning […]
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Update on Federal Regulations Impacting Distance Education During the Pandemic
Published by: WCET | 5/22/2020
In Harold Ramis’ 1993 classic, Groundhog Day, Bill Murray portrays a television weatherman sent to cover Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day who ends up repeating the day over and over again. At first, Murray’s character, Phil Connors, uses the time […]
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Our Reflections on a Virtual Event – the 2020 WCET Policy Summit
Published by: WCET | 5/14/2020
The WCET team enjoys planning our two live events each year. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for our community to come together to network, discuss new ideas, learn from each other, and bring important promising practices back to […]
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Fall and Beyond: Higher Education in the Age of COVID-19 and Other Disasters
Published by: WCET | 5/8/2020
Even before the COVID-19 global pandemic, higher education was struggling to make sense of what David La Piana and Melissa Mendes call a VUCA world in The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World. Originally coined by […]
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Communicating About the Crisis – with Help from Cowboy Joe
Published by: WCET | 4/28/2020
Today’s installment of What’s Next comes from Katie Carroll, Assistant Director of Admissions from the University of Wyoming. Katie shares with us how Wyoming is using Cowboy Joe, the institution’s chatbot, to help students, faculty, and staff navigate many of […]
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Promising Practices for Navigating “What’s Next”
Published by: WCET | 4/23/2020
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 […]
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Considering the Future, Now!
Published by: WCET | 4/21/2020
I don’t know about you, but the last few weeks (months?) have felt surreal. Not only on a professional level, but on a personal one as well. That uncanny feeling I have about ‘these times’ has continued as our local […]
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Open in a Time of Crisis
Published by: WCET | 4/16/2020
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 […]
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New Regulations #3: Direct Assessment and Competency-Based Education
Published by: WCET | 4/13/2020
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 […]