New on WCET Frontiers
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 […]
Practice
25 Years of Advancing Excellence in Technology-enhanced Teaching and Learning
Published by: WCET | 9/9/2013
In 1989 a group of people committed to improving access to higher education across the western region met in Denver to form a cooperative organization to leverage technology for distributed education and to advance excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning […]
Policy
Is Your Distance Education Course Actually a Correspondence Course?
Published by: WCET | 4/20/2012
St. Mary-of-the-Woods College should refund $42 million in federal financial aid dollars that it disbursed to students over a five year period. That is the finding of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General, which found that […]
Practice
Completely Redesigning One Institution’s Online Courses – In Just One Year
Published by: WCET | 12/1/2011
FIRST – Sorry to our subscribers who received the seemingly random post of Jo Kroll’s picture. I was trying a newer version of WordPress and made a mistake. Some parts are not quite as user friendly as I’d hoped. Russ […]