New on WCET Frontiers
Distance Education in IPEDS
Published by: WCET | 11/28/2012
There are some exciting changes in the Integrated Postsecondary Data Education System (IPEDS) data collection. Most notably, IPEDS has started to collect more information on postsecondary distance education. In the 2011-12 data collection year, IPEDS began asking institutions if they […]
Partnering to Better Serve Adults
Published by: WCET | 11/15/2012
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 […]
Colorado Study finds “No Significant Difference” in Online Science Courses
Published by: WCET | 10/18/2012
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 […]
SHEEO State Authorization Survey: Updates and Trends
Published by: WCET | 10/12/2012
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 […]
Visualizing Assessment
Published by: WCET | 7/26/2012
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? […]
U.S. News on Their Rankings of Online Colleges: In Their Own Words
Published by: WCET | 2/2/2012
The developers of the US News and World Report’s Top Online Programs rankings invited WCET members to ask questions regarding the implementation, methodology, survey questions, and future plans. We thank Bob Morse and Eric Brooks of U.S. News for extending […]
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) […]
Learning Analytics Lessons from Moneyball
Published by: WCET | 10/5/2011
by Ellen Wagner, WCET Executive Director The recent release of the movie Moneyball has drawn attention to an idea that has also been top of mind at WCET in recent months: What might happen if we used advanced statistical methods […]
To Enter the “Ranks” or Not…
Published by: WCET | 9/1/2011
At the end of July, I moderated a webcast for WCET with Bob Morse and Eric Brooks from US News and World Report regarding their forthcoming ranking of online education. The purpose of the webcast was to answer the questions […]
Practice
WCET Awarded Bill & Melinda Gates Grant on Predictive Analytics
Published by: WCET | 5/16/2011
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded WCET (the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies) a grant to identify variables that influence student retention and progression. Announced in a May 16 press release, the findings are intended to assist institutional and […]