New on WCET Frontiers
Finding Your Way Through Financial Aid
Published by: WCET | 6/8/2017
This month WCET is focusing on a complex component of student participation in higher education: financial aid. We are very appreciative of our friends at the National Association for Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) for providing two blog posts giving […]
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How Open Educational Resources Give Faculty and Students What They Want
Published by: WCET | 3/29/2017
Undergraduate costs are on the rise and student loan debt is a huge issue impacting today’s society. How can we, as higher education professionals, help limit the costs for students while also ensuring and promoting their success? This week we […]
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Sixty Years of Cooperation: Sharing Nursing Enrollments
Published by: WCET | 3/22/2017
Happy 60th Anniversary to the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN)! WIN is the western regional nursing organization that succeeded the Western Council on Higher Education for Nursing (WCHEN). Today we welcome Paula McNeil and Anna Galas from NEXus to discuss […]
The Military Advances on Credentialing and Quality Reviews: Pay Attention
Published by: WCET | 3/13/2017
Military personnel and veterans are eager to learn…and most of them do so using educational technologies and distance learning. Given that the United States has been involved in two wars for more than a decade, how do they defend the […]
Connecticut’s One-Stop Service Increases Enrollment and Retention
Published by: WCET | 3/8/2017
WCET has long been a champion of e-learning consortia, multi-institution efforts to partner to do more together than can be done by an individual campus. Today we feature one of them. In the past, the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC) […]
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Creating an inclusive student environment at UNE Online
Published by: WCET | 3/2/2017
I believe that developing an inclusive and welcoming classroom environment is an important aspect of effective teaching and learning. But, how can we foster such an environment? Especially in an online classroom, where it may be harder to make connections […]
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System(s) for CBE Readiness: Enabling Student Affordability and Success
Published by: WCET | 2/1/2017
Competency Based Education allows students to advance toward a completion goal based on their mastery of a skill or competency at their own pace. Establishing a CBE program can seem like a daunting task, but, luckily, this post contains some […]
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Providing Online Faculty with Support Services Can Make the Difference
Published by: WCET | 1/26/2017
What is the attitude toward online teaching on your campus? What has it been historically? Today on WCET Frontiers we are thrilled to have guest authors from Wiley Education Services, blogging about an interview with two members of their faculty […]
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Helping Students with Adaptive Learning: APLU and the University of Mississippi
Published by: WCET | 1/24/2017
This week we welcome Patricia O’Sullivan, Manager of the University of Mississippi Personalized Learning & Adaptive Teaching Opportunities (PLATO) Program to give us news from the APLU adaptive courseware grant front. Adaptive courseware can positively impact student outcomes and the […]
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Do Closed Captions Help Students Learn?
Published by: WCET | 12/14/2016
This week we are happy to welcome Dr. Katie Linder, Oregon State University Ecampus, as our guest blog post author. Dr. Linder is here to discuss a national research project on student use of closed captions and transcriptions. The important […]