New on WCET Frontiers
NANSLO Web-based Labs: Real Equipment, Real Data, Real People!
Published by: WCET | 4/7/2015
Many pressures on higher education make the services of the North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) essential. These include growing enrollments in online courses while campus enrollments decline, the need to provide flexibility for nontraditional students, a growing […]
What Can Happen If I Don’t Follow State Authorization Regulations?
Published by: WCET | 3/24/2015
Those of us in WCET’s State Authorization Network (SAN) and in the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (NC-SARA) leadership often get asked the questions: “Does anyone really enforce ‘state authorization’ in the U.S.?” “Why don’t I read in the higher education […]
Practice
IPEDS Fall 2013: Less than Half of Fully Distant Students Come from Other States
Published by: WCET | 3/12/2015
This is the third in a series of three blog posts examining the 2013 IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey and its counts of distance education enrollments. The first blog focused on the 2013 survey statistics and the second compared the growth […]
Practice
IPEDS Fall 2013: Higher Ed Sectors Vary Greatly in Distance Ed Enrollments
Published by: WCET | 3/5/2015
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 Taylor Straut crunched the data for WCET. Terri has […]
Defining a Research Agenda for Distance Education
Published by: WCET | 2/10/2015
Thank you to Tanya Joosten, Laura Pedrick, and Diane Reddy for inviting me to a summit to kick-off the new National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements. Operated by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, DETA (as they have thankfully […]
Practice
OER Supported by North Dakota Legislators
Published by: WCET | 1/21/2015
Today we have the privilege of hearing from Tanya Spilovoy, director of distance education and state authorization at the North Dakota University System, as she shares with us the journey of an open educational resource initiative that has what we […]
Goodbye Lake Wobegone: Proposed Teacher Prep Regulations and Distance Ed
Published by: WCET | 12/12/2014
December 12, 2014 It was a quiet week in Lake Wobegone… …and then new Teacher Prep regulations were released. On December 3rd, the U.S. Department of Education released proposed new accountability regulations for teacher preparation programs. Public comment will be […]
Nursing Regulation’s Prelicensure Guidelines for Distance Education Programs
Published by: WCET | 11/14/2014
November 14, 2014 I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Nancy Spector over the past few years as the National Council of State Boards of Nursing works on the issue of prelicensure Nursing requirements across the states. They have […]
New Gainful Employment Regulations Tied to State Authorization
Published by: WCET | 10/30/2014
This morning, the U.S. Department of Education released a 945 page document describing its new “Gainful Employment” (GE) regulations. An informal version is available on the Department’s website and the final version will be published in the Federal Register on […]
Education Department Urges Colleges to Follow IPEDS Distance Ed Definitions
Published by: WCET | 10/17/2014
In an extended conversation with the U.S. Department of Education (US ED) IPEDS personnel, they confirmed which distance education enrollment counts colleges should be reporting to the Department’s IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) survey. The Department representatives also wondered […]