Online Ed on the New Digital Shoreline

Roger McHaney is a long-time advocate of online learning and has participated in past WCET Conferences.  He is the Wiki-keeper for ELATEwiki and has recently written a book entitled ‘The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials are Revolutionizing Higher Education.’ It was published by Stylus Publishing in 2011. The New Digital Shoreline was […]

Federal Student Complaint Regulation – Clarifying Misconceptions

In the hubbub over the ‘state authorization’ issue for distance education, we have not paid as much attention to another part of the regulations released last October.  Each institution must notify all current and prospective students of third-party complaint processes.  In conversations with our colleagues at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), […]

Court “Vacates” Distance Ed Portion of State Authorization Regulation

Today (July 12, 2011), the United States District Court for the District of Columbia struck down the distance education portion of the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE) ‘state authorization regulations.  The decision is as a result of a lawsuit brought by the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities. You can read the complete ruling […]

Guest Blog: A Glimpse of the Future

Myk Garn, SREB, and Hae Okimoto, University of Hawaii, have been thinking up an exciting new addition to the WCET Annual Conference.  We asked them to share their idea with you. The future is relatively hard to predict.  But, future possibilities are easy to imagine. Knowing what we should do (or not do) today to […]