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An Introspective Look at WCET’s Own Accessibility Practices, Part I
Published by: WCET | 8/2/2019
Are your course materials and institutional websites accessible for all learners? Here at Frontiers, we discuss accessibility quite often, but today we have a very practical post that directly reviews content to determine accessibility for all. I’m excited to welcome […]
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Everything You Need to Know (But Are Afraid to Ask) About The 2016 Distance Education Regulations
Published by: WCET | 7/31/2019
Last week’s announcement by the Department of Education that “consistent with the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California…. As of May 26, 2019, the amendments to 34 CFR 600.2, 600.9 (c), 668.2, and the […]
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Podcasts Galore! – A Summer Listening List
Published by: WCET | 7/26/2019
While I love podcasts and listen to them while doing just about anything, I often struggle with finding new podcasts. Few digital systems are built around recommending relevant new podcasts to listeners, which means that listeners rely on general recommendation […]
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Strategies to Address ED’s Guidance on State Authorization Complaint Processes
Published by: WCET | 7/23/2019
As if we needed more excitement! The Department of Education uttered its first peep regarding the impact of the U.S. District Court’s April 26, 2019 ruling of a vacatur of the delay of the 2016 Federal Regulations relating to State […]
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An Inspired Strategic Plan
Published by: WCET | 7/17/2019
Welcome to Judith Sebesta Executive Director of the newly minted Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas, who is here today for a followup to her post a few months ago. Today’s post discusses the strategic planning process for the former […]
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Finding Quality in All the Right Places: Promoting Online Course Reviews to Faculty Designers
Published by: WCET | 7/11/2019
How do you ensure quality in online courses? That word gets a lot of buzz in higher ed! Today’s Frontiers post is all about quality and how to implement a course certification process. Joining us from the University of Central […]
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College affordability and the Democratic presidential debates: Is free college higher education’s moonshot?
Published by: WCET | 7/1/2019
The Democratic debates are heating up already and they were quite interesting to watch (and it was also interesting to read the social media commentary). Today our new Policy and Planning Consultant, Van Davis, is here to provide an update […]
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Improving College Readiness for Every Student: the Importance of Accessibility
Published by: WCET | 6/26/2019
Today we welcome the President of the NROC Project, Ahrash Bissell, to discuss accessibility as an opportunity we should all be involved with, rather than a regulatory requirement that we should all worry about. We are excited to see this […]
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Be Bold! Lessons from WCET’s Leadership Summit on Public-Private Partnerships to Meet Workforce Needs
Published by: WCET | 6/19/2019
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 […]
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New Federal Regulations Ready for Your Comments – Accreditation-Related Regulations
Published by: WCET | 6/14/2019
This is the second of two posts on the new regulations that the U.S. Department of Education released in the Federal Register earlier this week. The first post focused on state authorization and student notification issues. This post focuses on […]