Practice
Our Reflections on a Virtual Event – the 2020 WCET Policy Summit
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 5/14/2020 | 0 comments
The WCET team enjoys planning our two live events each year. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for our community to come together to network, discuss new ideas, learn from each other, and bring important promising practices back to our organizations. This year, in the “Age of COVID-19,” we were unable to host our […]
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Sneak Peek at This Year’s WCET Summit
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 1/24/2020 | 0 comments
Don’t you just love it when we come up with new things? Today I’m here to tell you about our new format for our annual WCET Summit! That’s right, this year our WCET Summit is not only EARLIER in the year, in a different LOCATION, but it’s also got a shiny new FOCUS! WCET has […]
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Join WCET for an exciting 2020!
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 1/17/2020 | 0 comments
Happy new year! WCET is excited for 2020. Today, we want to share our plans, priorities, and some coming attractions for the year. Members – It’s All About Our Members WCET’s emphasis has always been serving the needs of our cooperative. A great 2020 motto for our team is that “it’s all about our members.” […]
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Be Bold! Lessons from WCET’s Leadership Summit on Public-Private Partnerships to Meet Workforce Needs
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/19/2019 | 0 comments
Today we welcome Cheryl Dowd, Director of WCET’s State Authorization Network (SAN), who is here to give us a summary of WCET’s recent Leadership Summit. This year’s focus was workforce partnerships. You can view Summit information and resources. Thank you to Cheryl for reporting on this outstanding event! Thank you to Megan Raymond and Mollie […]
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Soft Skills: Unlocking the Power of Knowledge
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/3/2019 | 2 comments
This week, WCET is thrilled to convene this year’s Leadership Summit on workforce and higher education partnerships. Attendees at the event will focus on how higher education institutions can work with employers to create programming that can help students be more career ready and skilled for the workforce. In light of this topic, today we […]
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WCET’s 7th Annual Leadership Summit
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/15/2018 | 1 comments
We just got back from the annual WCET Leadership Summit in Newport Beach, CA where we deliberated on how digital learning can help higher education can embrace: Equity as a demonstrated priority for the institutions’ students, faculty, and staff. Accessibility as the lens through which the institution examines its resources, policies, services, and infrastructure. Data […]
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WCET Summit: Ensuring Ethical and Equitable Access in Digital Learning
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/24/2018 | 0 comments
In June 2017, I had the outstanding opportunity to attend my first WCET Leadership Summit. Last year’s event focused on the essential institutional capacities needed to encourage and lead innovation. I specifically remember feeling so invigorated by every session I attended and I truly enjoyed the hallway conversations and the incredibly active social media backchannel. […]
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Confessions of a Student at a Conference for Faculty and Administrators
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 12/14/2017 | 0 comments
My name is Emma. I am 25 years old and I am a part time student who is also working full time. I have been familiar with WCET for quite sometime, however, it was not until recently that my interests aligned with their work. As I have pursued my education I have become interested in […]
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Focus on Student Success – WCET Summit ’17 Recap
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/23/2017 | 1 comments
WCET’s 6th Leadership Summit engaged institutional leaders in strategic discussions regarding alignment and support of their institution’s human capital and technology investments, and how to develop a content strategy to sustain innovation in teaching and learning. In my opinion, boy was it successful! This was my very first WCET Leadership Summit, and I thoroughly enjoyed […]
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21st Century Credentials: Telling the Story of the Whole Student
Published by: Ashley Woods | 6/23/2016 | 1 comments
Earlier this month WCET’ers gathered in Salt Lake City to have frank discussions and hear from leading experts in the somewhat nebulous construct of 21st Century Credentials. There is no way I can replicate the conversations held, the discussions, the debate in a blog post. But I can distill some of the themes and learning […]