New on WCET Frontiers
State Authorization – Changes Proposed to Regulatory Language at April Meeting
Published by: WCET | 4/27/2014
NOTE: Since publishing this blog post, the Department released an updated document that includes proposed wording resulting from discussion at the April meeting. — Russ Members of the U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking Committee proposed many options for the […]
State Authorization – Proposed Regulatory Language from Department of Education
Published by: WCET | 4/16/2014
The U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking Committee is discussing the return of the federal regulation requiring institutions to be authorized in each state in which it enrolls students eligible for Title IV financial aid. The Committee meets next week […]
Practice
Virginia Tech Rethinks Instructional Design and Faculty Development Support
Published by: WCET | 4/2/2014
In an ideal world, we would all have custom, personalized support standing at the ready to provide just-in-time response to our need for guidance and support. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could provide this for faculty developing online courses […]
Proposed State Authorization Regulations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Published by: WCET | 3/24/2014
March 24, 2014 On March 20, I posted the new language proposed by the U.S. Department of Education staff regarding federal requirements for the state authorization of distance education. In that post, I asked for comments and I received quite […]
Clearing Misconceptions in Distance Ed Enrollments by Sector: IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: WCET | 3/19/2014
March 19, 2014 Let’s play a game. What percentage of all distance education enrollments occur in for-profit institutions? In private, non-profits? In public institutions? Hold onto your guesses as we’ll get to the answers later in this blog post. The […]
Colleges Crossing Borders – Counts and State Authorization: IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: WCET | 3/11/2014
March 11, 2014 This is the third in a series of blog posts examining data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey on distance education (DE) enrollments. Our first blog post in this series looked at students […]
Practice
Where in the World Are Our Distance Education Students?: IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: WCET | 3/7/2014
This is the second in a series of blog posts examining data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey on distance education enrollments. Our first blog post in this series looked at the percentage of students enrolled […]
U.S. Distance Education Adoption by the Numbers: an IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: WCET | 3/5/2014
This is the first of a series of posts providing insight on data regarding enrollments in distance education that was released by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this year. Terri Straut crunched the data for WCET. Terri has a […]
Untangling Two State Authorization Rules: “On-Ground” and “Distance Education”
Published by: WCET | 2/14/2014
In talking with institutional personnel, I’ve noted some confusion about different aspects of the state authorization regulations. There are still many who believe that the federal deadline to be in compliance for those offering distance education in each state is […]
Ratings and Rankings Game, Part 1: Postsecondary Institutional Ratings System
Published by: WCET | 2/12/2014
February 12, 2014 Hooray! College football in the United States is finally doing away with the Bowl Championship System (BCS) to anoint a national champion. Meanwhile, a mania remains for ratings and ranking systems of collegiate performance in academics, financial […]