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Increasing Access to Learning by Creating a Custom Online Lab Platform
Published by: Lindsey Downs | 4/6/2023
A few weeks ago we started our feature of recent WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award winners. Today we continue that feature with one of our WOW Honorable Mentions – Oregon State University Ecampus and their outstanding work developing a custom […]
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Surprise! Newly Released Final Regulations
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 8/26/2020
On April 1st, the Department of Education released the final set of proposed regulations stemming from the 2019 Negotiated Rulemaking process (April Fools!). Back in April, WCET published three blog posts outlining the proposed regulations on April 3rd, April 6th, […]
NANSLO Web-based Labs: Real Equipment, Real Data, Real People!
Published by: Russ Poulin | 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 […]
Colorado Study finds “No Significant Difference” in Online Science Courses
Published by: WCET Frontiers | 10/18/2012
A big thank you to our guest blogger, Rhonda Epper, Assistant Provost at the Colorado Community College System and past chair of the WCET Executive Council, who shares with us today a new study of online science course outcomes in […]
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The North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO)
Published by: WCET Frontiers | 6/27/2012
Today’s guest blog comes to us from our WICHE colleagues Pat Shea and Catherine Weldon who run an innovative program to bring sophisticated science into the virtual hands of online students. NANSLO represents an international collaborative partnership between postsecondary institutions […]