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Opening the Doors to Education: Ensuring Accessibility in Open Textbooks
Published by: WCET | 4/1/2015
Accessibility is a concern across all of technology-enhanced education. At BCcampus, they wanted to help content creators incorporate accessible practices into their open materials. Amanda Coolidge, Open Education manager at BCcampus, shares with us how they crafted the BC Open Textbook […]
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eCampusAlberta Quality Rubric for Online Courses
Published by: WCET | 3/18/2015
A long time supporter of WCET, we are delighted to hear from Tricia Donovan, executive Director of eCampusAblerta today. Thank you, Tricia, for sharing with us eCA’s work in developing the quality eToolkit. eCampusAlberta is a consortium of 26 publicly funded post-secondary […]
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IPEDS Fall 2013: Less than Half of Fully Distant Students Come from Other States
Published by: WCET | 3/12/2015
This is the third in a series of three blog posts examining the 2013 IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey and its counts of distance education enrollments. The first blog focused on the 2013 survey statistics and the second compared the growth […]
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IPEDS Fall 2013: Distance Education Data Reveals More Than Overall Flat Growth
Published by: WCET | 3/10/2015
The first blog post in this series analyzed the Fall 2013 distance education enrollment data (as released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey) sector-by-sector. The post revealed that one-of-four students took at least one distance education course and […]
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IPEDS Fall 2013: Higher Ed Sectors Vary Greatly in Distance Ed Enrollments
Published by: WCET | 3/5/2015
This is the first of a series of posts providing insight on data regarding enrollments in distance education that was released by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this year. Terri Taylor Straut crunched the data for WCET. Terri has […]
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WCET Strategic Priorities: Practice, Policy, and Advocacy
Published by: WCET | 2/24/2015
Today we hear from Peter Smith, Founding President, Open College @ Kaplan University and chair of the WCET Executive Council. Thank you Peter for your insights today and the leadership you provide your Cooperative. It is a tremendous honor to […]
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Strong Signals for HEA Reauthorization in 2015
Published by: WCET | 1/29/2015
With great foresight into the happenings of the Hill, today Christopher T. Murray and Kenneth D. Salomon, partners at Thompson Coburn LLP, share with us what they have observed regarding Higher Ed Act Reauthorization possibilities for 2015. WCET is currently exploring ways to […]
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Open Educational Resources in ND: A Teacher’s Perspective
Published by: WCET | 1/23/2015
In a continuation of our look into the Open Educational Resources Initiative in North Dakota, today we are excited to share Teresa Tande’s, Associate Professor of English/Humanities at Lake Region State College, story of incorporating OER into her classroom. When […]
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OER Supported by North Dakota Legislators
Published by: WCET | 1/21/2015
Today we have the privilege of hearing from Tanya Spilovoy, director of distance education and state authorization at the North Dakota University System, as she shares with us the journey of an open educational resource initiative that has what we […]
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Connecting the Dots
Published by: WCET | 1/14/2015
Today we welcome our new WCET executive director, Michael D. Abbiatti, to his first post on Frontiers. Many of you know Mike from his years of active participation as a member of WCET. We invite you to take a moment […]