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A Survey of Practices in Supporting Online Adjunct Faculty
Published by: WCET | 11/5/2015
Are colleges doing all they can to assure that their online adjunct faculty are successful? Institutions employing adjunct faculty for online courses were surveyed about the practices they use in supporting them. With the frequent use of adjuncts and growing […]
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Faculty Skills for 21st Century Learners
Published by: WCET | 10/1/2015
WCET Steering Committee member Preston Davis guest blogs today about the skill requirements for modern faculty. After reading his post, join him on October 6 as he leads a Google Hangout addressing the question: “is there a digital divide between […]
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Breaking Bad: Improving College and University Teaching
Published by: WCET | 4/22/2015
Tony Bates has had a distinguished career promoting distance learning and open learning and content initiatives around the world. Today Tony shares with us his latest book – an online, open textbook – as a resource for those teaching in our current digital […]
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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 […]
Training for Mobile Learning: Moving from the Basics to Redefining Learning
Published by: WCET | 10/29/2013
This is the second in a series of blog posts from our friends at Walters State Community College in Tennessee. The first post covered how they organized campus-wide implementation of their mobile learning initiative. This post focuses on steps in […]
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Successfully Implementing Mobile Learning Across an Entire Campus
Published by: WCET | 10/23/2013
We better be paying attention to mobile learning. A short while ago, I asked Robbie Melton, the Tennessee Board of Regents’ (and WCET’s) “Appologist” about examples in her state of successful implementation of mobile learning on campus. She introduced me […]
Faculty Development for Blended Learning: A Survey of Practices
Published by: WCET | 12/5/2012
WCET is pleased to welcome Liz Ciabocchi and Amy Ginsberg of Long Island University as guest bloggers in sharing their research on faculty development. Thank you to WCET members who responded to their survey on training opportunities for blended learning […]
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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 […]
More than One Path to Meeting the Adult Degree Completion BIG GOAL
Published by: WCET | 10/20/2011
Lumina Foundation has a BIG GOAL: To increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by the year 2025. Over the past several years, they have supported many projects that are of sufficient scale to […]
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Predictions and Hopes for Elearning in 2011
Published by: WCET | 1/6/2011
I thought it might be fun and informative to pose a challenge to several people whose opinions I respect. I asked them to send me: “A prediction – something that you think will happen in 2011. You can be as […]