CTDLC: Collaborating to Offer eTutoring

In this Frontiers blog, we welcome back the 2007 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award winning eTutoring program from the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium.  A long running program by any standards, this WOW Award winner has continued to grow and improve over the past six years.  Speaking of WOW Awards, don’t forget to nominate your or […]

California Switches Driver on Road to Future of Higher Education

In dealing with tight budgets, limited access to courses, growing costs to students, and concerns about educational quality, we’re noticing that governors and legislators in states and provinces are asking tough questions.  Many see technology as part of the answer and they are engaging their higher education leaders in designing ways to better serve their […]

Faculty Development for Blended Learning: A Survey of Practices

WCET is pleased to welcome Liz Ciabocchi and Amy Ginsberg of Long Island University as guest bloggers in sharing their research on faculty development.  Thank you to WCET members who responded to their survey on training opportunities for blended learning faculty.  Liz and Amy share highlights of their results in this posting. Like so many […]

Partnering to Better Serve Adults

Our colleague from across the building, Patrick Lane, joins the Frontiers blog today to share the resources from the recent meeting of the Adult College Completion (ACC) Network.  The ACC Network aims to unite organizations and agencies working to increase college completion by adults with prior college credits but no degree in a collaborative learning […]

WCET12 Wrap-Up Dispatch

Now that you’ve unpacked your bags, fallen back with that extra hour of sleep and as you begin looking through your notes, we want to be sure you know just where you can find all of the great resources from WCET12. Did you miss a general session or the WCET Smackdown, powered by Pecha Kucha […]

Dispatch from WCET12: November 2, 2012

We enjoyed another great day in San Antonio for the WCET Annual Meeting.  We’re happy to share some highlights with you. Equity: The Answer to National Completion Goals David Longanecker, WICHE President, introduced Deborah Santiago, Excelencia in Education, who gave evidence that we cannot reach our national completion goals without vast improvements in the completion […]

Dispatch from WCET12: November 1, 2012

Greetings from San Antonio and the WCET Annual Meeting!! Here are some highlights Thursday’s activities. Keynote Speaker Jane Bozarth on social media toys for tools. Self-proclaimed “world’s oldest millennial,” Jane Bozarth, helped us move beyond the social media hype to ways that these “toys” can be utilized as important tools for learning.  Assuring us that […]

Colorado Study finds “No Significant Difference” in Online Science Courses

A big thank you to our guest blogger, Rhonda Epper, Assistant Provost at the Colorado Community College System and past chair of the WCET Executive Council, who shares with us today a new study of online science course outcomes in Colorado.  Just when we thought it was safe to move beyond the “no significant difference” […]

SHEEO State Authorization Survey: Updates and Trends

Thank you to our guest bloggers Marianne Boeke of NCHEMS and Sharmila Basu Mann of SHEEO.  Both of their organizations share the same building as WCET, and we have enjoyed working together with them on the state authorization issue.  With funding from WCET’s State Authorization Network, we’ve been able to support Marianne’s work in helping […]

Visualizing Assessment

Sharing his vision with us today is Dr. Mark Sarver, the CEO of eduKan, a consortium of colleges delivering online education. Do you ever look at something and know it doesn’t look right, but you just cannot figure out why?  Perhaps more troubling than not knowing what is wrong, is not knowing how to make […]