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20 Years of WOW: Celebrating Innovation in Digital Learning
Published by: WCET | 4/24/2025
The WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award honors exceptional initiatives by our WCET member institutions and organizations. We use the WOW Award program to showcase important and innovative projects from all over the US. As we’ve celebrated just over two decades of WOW Award winners (whoa!), I wanted to take a moment to look back at […]

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Empowering Students and Educators: Crafting a Zero-Cost, Culturally Inclusive Textbook for Hawai‘i’s Future
Published by: WCET | 10/17/2024
Welcome to the third part of our series highlighting the work of the 2024 WOW Award winners! Check out the first and second parts of our series. Today’s guest authors join us from the University of Hawai’i System to tell us all about the Anatomy and Physiology OER Project. Thank you for all of the […]

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Empowering Education Through Collaboration: The Success of the Mississippi Virtual Community College
Published by: WCET | 10/3/2024
Hello and welcome to the second part of our series showcasing this year’s WOW Award winners! Last week, we featured the incredible work of the SUNY COIL+OSCQR Standards team. Today, we’re excited to spotlight the Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC) and hear from Christa Wilhite and Krista LeBrun from the Mississippi Community College Board. MSVCC’s […]

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Enhancing Global Virtual Learning: SUNY COIL+OSCQR Standards
Published by: WCET | 9/26/2024
Each year, the WCET Awards Program highlights innovative practices in higher education digital learning, honoring individuals and teams that have dedicated their time and effort to advancing our field. Coordinating this program is one of the highlights of my role, especially because it allows me to work with the WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award recipients. […]

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Finding the Need and Endeavoring to Meet it: Sinclair Community College’s Equity Rubric
Published by: WCET | 10/26/2023
Today we welcome several staff from the eLearning Department at Sinclair Community College, who are here to share about a new tool they use for designing and evaluating digital courses. Sinclair Community College prioritizes transformative teaching and learning reflecting the Dayton region’s goal of holistic diversity. The college’s mission reflects the historic words of its […]

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RioPACT: Transforming Student Success at Rio Salado College
Published by: WCET | 10/12/2023
Each year, the goal of the WCET Awards Program is to highlight and showcase promising practices in higher education digital learning and to honor those who have dedicated their time and energies to our field. It is an absolute honor […]

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Personalized Adaptive Learning in Algebra-Based Introductory Physics Courses at the University of Central Florida
Published by: WCET | 5/4/2023
As we start our new awards season here at WCET, we’re thrilled to continue to feature our previous honorable mentions for the 2022 WOW Award. Our judges were so impressed by this project and the inspiration the team showed that […]

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Indigenous Ways of Knowing, a Faculty’s Journey to Redesign Native American Art Online Course
Published by: WCET | 3/16/2023
Each year, I have the honor of coordinating the WCET Awards initiative. The goal of our awards program is to highlight those doing great work in higher education digital learning. I feel so lucky to get the chance each year […]

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The “Angels of UND’s TTaDA” – Working Magic in the Face of Adversity
Published by: WCET | 10/1/2021
Welcome to our continued celebration of 2021 WOW awardees! We’re joined today by Jenny L. Reichart, who is the Faculty Development Specialist and Inclusion Ambassador with the Teaching Transformation and Development Academy (TTaDA) at the University of North Dakota (UND). […]

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“I’m Sick with COVID – but I’ll Get Caught up this Week” – Supporting Students Through a Pandemic with CTU Messenger
Published by: WCET | 9/28/2021
Welcome to our continued celebration of 2021 WOW awardees! We’re joined today by Connie Johnson and Ellise Farber, both from Colorado Technical University, who were nominated this year for the Messenger app via CTU Mobile, which provided real time communication […]