New on WCET Frontiers
Badges, Credits and Accreditation
Published by: WCET | 10/10/2013
Alternative credentials are a hot topic in higher education – from the new direct assessment competency based programs to badges to certify competency. Today, Anne Derryberry of Sage Road Solutions, LLC, shares with us the current thinking around how badges […]
Practice
The Audacity of MOOCS
Published by: WCET | 9/30/2013
After last week’s blog posting from David Cillay, Richard Katz (former WCET Executive Council member) and I had a great discussion via email. I invited Richard to provide his viewpoint. Richard served 14 years as vice president of EDUCAUSE and […]
Confessions of a MOOC Reviewer
Published by: WCET | 8/13/2013
In our on-going series of blog posts on MOOCs, Elizabeth Allan shares her experiences as a reviewer of the “credit-worthiness” of a science MOOC. Previously, Patricia Book gave us her insight into the overall ACE review process. In this post, […]
MOOCs – A Question of Credit
Published by: WCET | 7/31/2013
John Ebersole, president of Excelsior College, gives his views on where MOOCs currently stand on their trek to become avenues for students to receive college credit. This guest blog posting is part of a short series on MOOCs and follow […]
The Community College Journey to Predictive Analytics
Published by: WCET | 6/5/2013
This week, Luzelma Canales, Executive Director, Resource Development & Administration, Lone Star College System brings us along the path that her system has followed to adopting predictive analytics. Luzelma and others will share more about their analytics journey at the WCET Leadership […]
CTDLC: Collaborating to Offer eTutoring
Published by: WCET | 3/28/2013
In this Frontiers blog, we welcome back the 2007 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award winning eTutoring program from the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. A long running program by any standards, this WOW Award winner has continued to grow and improve […]
Competency-Based Learning at Northern Arizona University (& New USDOE Rules)
Published by: WCET | 3/19/2013
We had planned this blog to run today, but did not know that the U.S. Department of Education would choose March 19 to release its new “Dear Colleague” letter on “Applying for Title IV Eligibility for Direct Assessment (Competency-Based) Programs.” In […]
Colorado Study finds “No Significant Difference” in Online Science Courses
Published by: WCET | 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 […]
Are Your Arms Too Short to Teach a MOOC?
Published by: WCET | 9/26/2012
Thank you to guest blogger, Chuck Wight of the University of Utah. In this post, he describes some of his experiences in taking a MOOC offered by Coursera. Last fall, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their Artificial Intelligence course […]
Visualizing Assessment
Published by: WCET | 7/26/2012
Sharing his vision with us today is Dr. Mark Sarver, the CEO of eduKan, a consortium of colleges delivering online education. Do you ever look at something and know it doesn’t look right, but you just cannot figure out why? […]