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U-Pace: Building Student Success Through Content Mastery & Proactive Support
Published by: WCET | 10/22/2014
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a 2014 WCET Outstanding Work Award winner for their innovative online instructional approach, U-Pace. Today Diane Reddy and Ray Fleming, co-creators of U-Pace and Laura Pedrick, executive director of UWM Online, share with us a […]
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Intellipath for MBA preparation
Published by: WCET | 10/15/2014
Today we welcome Colorado Technical University Chief Academic Officer and Provost, Connie Johnson and CTU faculty member, Sarah Pingrey as they share what their WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) award-winning program has done to improve the student and faculty experience in […]
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Glimpse into WCET Leadership Summit: Designing Alternative Pathways to Credentials
Published by: WCET | 5/20/2014
May 7th & 8th, 2014 Salt Lake City was again host to a bevy of WCET’ers, gathered to discuss how we in higher education can adopt, adapt and administer high quality credentials in new ways utilizing tools like competency based […]
Badges, Credits and Accreditation
Published by: WCET | 10/10/2013
Alternative credentials are a hot topic in higher education – from the new direct assessment competency based programs to badges to certify competency. Today, Anne Derryberry of Sage Road Solutions, LLC, shares with us the current thinking around how badges […]
Accreditators are Monitoring the Changing e-Learning Environment
Published by: WCET | 10/7/2013
Today’s guest blogger is Karen Solomon of the Higher Learning Commission, one of the regional accrediting agencies. She shares some of the e-learning emerging issues that they are following. Karen also serves as the chair of WCET’s Steering Committee. Thank […]
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It’s Time to Redirect the Conversation about MOOCs
Published by: WCET | 9/26/2013
So many exciting things are happening in higher education these days, it could make a guy’s hair fall out (see my photo at the bottom of this post). Most of the headlines have been about “massive” education and the stories […]
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Wisconsin’s Flexible Option: A System Approach to Competency-Based Education
Published by: WCET | 9/19/2013
In earlier Frontiers blog posts, we heard about developing competency-based programs at Northern Arizona University and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. WCET is also currently partnering with Mozilla, Blackboard, and Sage Road Solutions in offering a MOOC on badges […]
Academic Integrity: Florida Virtual School’s Systematic and Scalable Solutions
Published by: WCET | 8/21/2013
Welcome to our guest blogger Angela Anastacio who is Academic Integrity Manager at Florida Virtual School. While she is focused on academic cheating and plagiarism in the K-12 realm, I find that she has some lessons for us in higher […]
Confessions of a MOOC Reviewer
Published by: WCET | 8/13/2013
In our on-going series of blog posts on MOOCs, Elizabeth Allan shares her experiences as a reviewer of the “credit-worthiness” of a science MOOC. Previously, Patricia Book gave us her insight into the overall ACE review process. In this post, […]
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MOOCs are Maturing
Published by: WCET | 8/8/2013
Our next guest blogger in our series on MOOCs is Ray Schroeder, who, until recently was the Associate Vice Chancellor of Online Learning at the University of Illinois Springfield. Congratulations to Ray on his new position with UPCEA. Ray has […]