New on WCET Frontiers
Learner Progress: Capturing the Adult Learner
Published by: WCET | 12/14/2011
Cali Morrison, Transparency by Design Project Director, brings to Frontiers the process by which the Transparency by Design initiative created the recently launched learner progress metrics available on its website College Choices for Adults. The Problem Transparency by Design (TbD) […]
More than One Path to Meeting the Adult Degree Completion BIG GOAL
Published by: WCET | 10/20/2011
Lumina Foundation has a BIG GOAL: To increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by the year 2025. Over the past several years, they have supported many projects that are of sufficient scale to […]
Practice
Online Ed Needs to Be More Aggressive in the Quality Debate
Published by: WCET | 6/15/2011
Diane Goldsmith is the Executive Director of the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. A long-time contributor to WCET activities, Diane is the current WCET Steering Committee Chair and serves on the WCET Executive Council. Maybe I’m just getting cranky, but I’m […]
Increasing Adult Graduates through Sharing: The Adult College Completion Network
Published by: WCET | 5/31/2011
Late last year, Lumina Foundation announced its financial support for 19 projects seeking to dramatically increase the number of adults who complete their postsecondary degrees. WICHE’s grant differed from the others as it is tasked with bringing together representatives of […]
Will Distance Ed Plans from California’s Legislators Have Broader Impact?
Published by: WCET | 11/4/2010
Containing about 12% of the population of the United States, one can’t help but feel that when California sneezes, the rest of us might catch a cold. That’s one reason we should pay attention when some big distance education strategy […]
Practice
The “Connected College”: Secrets to Improving Student Retention
Published by: WCET | 9/22/2010
Shannon Meadows is one of the co-leaders of WCET’s Student Retention Common Interest Group. We were pleased that she accepted our invitation to blog about successful campus strategies that she has witnessed. Imagine a female community college student in an […]
Serving Ready Adults – Resources from Non-Traditional No More Project
Published by: WCET | 9/17/2010
I spent the last two days at the Non-Traditional No More meeting in Denver. Funded by Lumina Foundation for Education, this WICHE-run project works with five states – Arkansas, Colorado, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Dakota – to identify their “ready […]