WCET Webcasts

Join us for the WCET 36th Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California, October 8-10, 2024.

Significant changes are being proposed for distance education courses and programs. If implemented, these new regulations will majorly affect your online courses, programs, and services to students. Join the...

In recent rulemaking, the U.S. Department of Education proposed significant changes affecting institutions’ distance education offerings including state authorization, reciprocity for distance education, attendance taking requirements, and digital learning...

AI presents unprecedented opportunities to enhance teaching, learning, and administrative functions within academic institutions, from personalized learning platforms to chatbots and predictive analytics for student success.

Did you feel that quake? In its recent rulemaking, the U.S. Department of Education proposed major changes that will cause institutions to check how the shifting sands will affect...

Ensuring accessibility in digital learning products is essential to providing all learners with equal educational opportunities. We'll introduce you to a rubric designed to support institutions and edtech suppliers...

  This Summit is designed to provide valuable and actionable insights into the latest trends, best practices, and cutting-edge technologies in the field of artificial intelligence and generative text...

Join WCET members and the authors of the WCET AI Practices and Policies Toolkit for a Closer Conversation about this new resource and the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial...

This webcast is hosted in partnership with NWHeat. The use of Open Educational Resources (OER) has significantly improved inclusivity and access in postsecondary education. Initially, textbook cost barriers were...

*Exclusively for Members* This WCET and SAN member-only webcast will give you real-time updates on emerging Federal actions regarding postsecondary digital learning. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Education...

About ASWE ASWE provides attendees with a wonderful opportunity to establish new relationships and contacts, find a mentor or become a mentor, and visit friends involved in digital learning....

The WCET Annual Meeting brings together higher education professionals to share advances in digital learning practices and to explore emerging policy challenges facing institutions and organizations today. The meeting...

Hosted in partnership with Honorlock. This webcast provided insights on creating a culture of academic integrity in the fast-changing world of AI. As higher education leaders and administrators, you...

Join WCET members to discuss the importance of culturally responsive digital learning. During this Closer Conversation, Angela Gunder, CAO with OLC, will lead a facilitated conversation surfacing good practices...

Hosted in partnership with Anthology Inc. Culturally responsive teaching in higher education, according to Every Learner Everywhere in the 2020 blog post, “Curricula that Account for All Students: A Look at...

Join this month’s member Closer Conversation and WCET friend, Phil Hill, as he explains the data behind the impending decline in college bound students, how the demographics of college...

Join this webcast for a conversation around declining enrollments in higher education with authors of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education’s Knocking at the College Door and Tyton Partners’...

The road to a successful and high-quality microcredentialing initiative can be fraught with potholes and speedbumps, but the final destination is attainable. This webcast will bring together experts and...

Generative AI landed on our campuses like a comet. We saw it on the horizon but didn’t anticipate its immediacy or impact. How have teaching and learning practices changed,...

In this month’s Closer Conversation, the WCET Steering Committee work group on microcredentials will highlight some of the key findings in the recent WCET + EDUCAUSE quick poll survey...

As leaders and educators in postsecondary education, we often feel that we do not have time to balance wellness and work. However, effective leadership requires skills for managing stress...

In this month’s Closer Conversation, we will discuss strategies for self-care and modeling wellness as leaders as we head into summer. Good leadership requires skills for managing stress and...

In this month’s Closer Conversation, we will discuss what members are doing to improve access to digital learning for all learners. Attendees will discuss:  Strategies for narrowing the digital...

This webcast is hosted in partnership with NWHeat. WCET, a leader in the practice, policy, and advocacy of digital learning in higher education, recently partnered with WebAIM (Web Accessibility...

In this month’s Closer Conversation, we will discuss some of the key insights from WCET’s forthcoming report “Definitions of Distance Learning” about the need for effective, student-centered polices around...

This event is hosted by SAN, WCET, and Phil Hill & Associates. Join expert speakers as they address the recent U.S. Department of Education release of (GEN-23-03) Requirements and...

The webcast will highlight two recent reports:  Toward a Hybrid Future, written by Minerva Project, which explores how to design high-quality hybrid learning that matches learning objectives, learning modality, and...

WCET’s Virtual Summits are a deep dive into digital learning topics impacting postsecondary education. The 2023 Virtual Summit on March 9 will cover an array of topics affecting the...

In this month’s Closer Conversation, we will come together to share and learn about the role that generative AI like ChatGPT might play in the classroom. There has been...

As we move into a post-pandemic climate, the skills gap continues to be a growing challenge and priority for both employers and educators alike. Join WCET as we bring...

In November, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chat interface for its GPT 3.5 large language model artificial intelligence. Using the chat interface, users can make a seemingly endless array of...

In this month's Closer Conversation, we will come together to share and learn how we work with businesses to build sustainable talent pipelines. The current economy requires creative solutions...

In our first WCET webcast of 2023, friends and leaders of WCET will share their aspirations and goals for digital learning in 2023. This won’t be just another “educators...

*Exclusively for Members* Navigating the topography of the higher education policy landscape, especially as we near an election, can feel like you are reading a map upside down. Which...

Join us for an informal gathering at the upcoming WCET Annual Meeting to learn more about ASWE, the Annual Summit for Women in eLearning. Registration for the WCET Annual...

WCET, the leader in the practice, policy, and advocacy of digital learning in higher education, brings together higher education professionals to share advances in digital learning practices and to...

There is rapidly growing interest in higher education about microcredentials and badges. The why of adopting a microcredential strategy was explored in a recent WCET Frontiers blog, “Considering Your...

This webcast is hosted in partnership with Guild Education. What do large companies that cover tuition costs for employees expect of the digital learning programs that educate them? How...

This webcast is hosted in partnership with Turnitin. The proliferation of tools and technologies to support digital learning increased dramatically during the pandemic. Many institutions adopted edtech at a...

Join our conversationalists to discuss strategies for building community in the new world of work where teams are no longer connecting around the office water cooler. As teams are...

As students sign up for courses, they are faced with course delivery options such as online, remote, hybrid, hyflex, synchronous, and asynchronous – but how these are defined is...

Succession Planning for Compliance Continuity Hosted by the State Authorization Network (SAN), this synchronous virtual workshop will support an institution/organization’s current efforts to address state and federal compliance management...

State & Federal Building Blocks for Out-of-State Activity Compliance Part 1 of this webinar series is designed primarily for institution personnel (but open to the public) and will focus...

Hosted in partnership with Cengage. This April, Bay View Analytics and Cengage released the latest findings of the Digital Learning Pulse Survey. This longitudinal study, launched in April of...

Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer with The Chronicle of Higher Education, will lead a fireside chat with members of WCET and WICHE’s Forum and Alliance members in July. Goldie...

The Department of Education is accepting applications through July 25, 2022, for the Open Textbook Pilot Grant, which supports projects at eligible institutions of higher education to create new...

This webcast was hosted in partnership with Wiley University Services. As higher ed continues to focus on ways to increase equity within our learning communities, one area in which...

Hosted in collaboration with the Western Academic Leadership Forum and Western Alliance of Community College Academic Leaders. Community colleges across the nation are experiencing similar challenges: decreased enrollments, state...

SAN & WCET presented a two-part webinar series. In part one, Dave Sonheim, Chief of Cybersecurity, Region VII, CISA, Department of Homeland Security provided a policy briefing addressing cybersecurity...

Open Educational Resources (OER) – freely accessible and openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research...

Hosted in partnership with Wiley University Services. Behavioral health and student attrition are major concerns for online and hybrid educators, with more than 23 percent of students becoming unresponsive...

Adjunct faculty—defined here as part-time, non-tenure track instructors—account for nearly half of all teaching faculty in higher ed and are critical to the success of their students and the...

We are all still aboard the pandemic roller coaster and the journey has had its ups, downs, thrills, and near spills, but we in higher education have learned a...

  A complimentary series of webinars for WCET and SAN Members In this two-part virtual series, attendees heard from other WCET and WCET|SAN members who shared their practical approaches...

  A complimentary series of webinars for WCET and SAN Members In this two-part virtual series, attendees heard from other WCET and WCET|SAN members who shared their practical approaches...

About the Annual Meeting The WCET Annual Meeting was a one-day virtual event highlighting effective practices, innovative solutions, and roundtable discussions in digital learning in higher education. Attendees heard...

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Town Halls, Lunch and Learns, oh my! The ideal community is one of fluid and engaging communication between all stakeholders of the institution – students, faculty,...

Four online learning leaders, each from different institution types (a private research university, a public research university, an HBCU, and a very large minority-serving community college district) discussed the...

Hosted in partnership with LearningMate. The 2020 pandemic highlighted the need for flexible, just-in-time learning design. Many educators found themselves designing courses and lessons “for now.” Instead of designing...

Hosted by the Southern Regional Education Board, this session was part of SREB’s Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment webinar series. This session gave solutions to integrate open educational resources...

Ensuring high-quality teaching and learning is top of mind for all of us in higher education. The transition to post-pandemic higher education from emergency course delivery affords the opportunity...

The last year has been filled with racial protests and a new realization that America still suffers from a considerable digital divide. Colleges and universities across the United States...

Hosted in partnership with D2L. Fall 2020 was unprecedented in higher education as the world navigated teaching and learning during a global pandemic. Emerging models such as HyFlex were adopted....

Hosted by the Southern Regional Education Board, this session was part of SREB’s Open Educational Resources in Dual Enrollment webinar series. This session helped decision-makers on all levels –...

Hosted in partnership with Wiley Education Services. The challenge of the skills gap continues to be a priority for higher education and employers alike. WCET brought together a panel of...

WCET partnered with the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA) to conduct a review of equity-focused research in digital learning. This compilation, Research Review: Educational...

Open Educational Resources (OER) – freely accessible and openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research...

Hosted in partnership with the Advanced Learning Technologies Lab. As a follow up to the March 23 WCET webcast, Alternative Assessments in Digital Learning in Higher Education: Global Perspectives, WCET...

The WCET Summit miniseries was held in two parts on April 6 and May 4, 2021: April 6 – The EdTech Gambit. What have we learned from edtech adoption and implementation over...

Mentoring is essential to our growth as leaders and professionals. How can we leverage the WCET community to create connections and support women in higher education digital learning to...

Hosted in partnership with OneHE. Remote learning highlighted some of the challenges associated with assessments via online learning. Proctoring, identity verification, and other means of authenticating the learner taking...

A complimentary series of webinars for WCET and SAN Members In this three-part series, WCET’s policy experts guided members through some of the hot policy topics facing institutions today....

Hosted in partnership with Guild Education. Video platforms proved essential to ease the transition online amidst a pandemic and allowed institutions to continue delivering education. However, as we are...

This webcast was hosted in partnership with BibliU. The boundaries of learning and earning are intersecting in increasingly complex ways. The “traditional” approach – prescriptive pathways of degree attainment,...

State leaders, postsecondary education institutions, and education leaders are working across state lines to promote the adoption of open educational resources (OER) to help millions of students access high-quality...

This webinar was hosted in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere. Educational opportunity and economic success are intertwined, and a college degree enables students to accomplish their career goals and...

What regulatory changes are in the air for online, blended, remote, or any other form of digital learning that you are currently offering? The session began with a review...

Featuring synchronous and asynchronous sessions, the two-part Seminar Series of topic-focused virtual discussions and experiences brought together higher education community members, practitioners, and experts. Each seminar included strategic work...

With expert panelists Elaine Thornton, Will Cross, and Jennryn Wetzler, we explored a variety of topics related to Open Educational Resources for the Fall term, including: OER and distance...

The digital divide became a wider abyss for many students as institutions moved to remote learning in Spring 2020 in the midst of COVID-19. Internet deserts are seeing the potential for broadband connectivity diminish as localities face dire budget implications and national efforts seem idle....

Do you manage state authorization compliance at your institution? ….OR are you in another institution office such as financial aid, registrar, faculty, institutional research, or legal counsel and required...

Hosted in partnership with WCET’s State Authorization Network. Effective July 1, 2020, institutions are now responsible for providing public and individual notifications for the institution’s programs that lead to...

Online learning provides numerous advantages to educators and learners. Flexibility and convenience for learners are driving forces for online course enrollment, and high-quality course design and delivery ensure that...

With the rapid move to online learning, many questions have arisen around copyright and intellectual property. What are the policy implications when moving from face-to-face to online? What are...

Hosted in partnership with Wiley Education Services. In June 2020, with spring semesters wrapped and summer semesters largely being held in remote environments, institutions across the nation were planning...

During the spring of 2020, education experienced a swift conversion of face-to-face courses to online and remote formats to complete the Spring 2020 terms. Consequently, some support services to...

WCET + University of Maryland Global Campus Summit The 2020 Virtual Summit asynchronously brought together policy-makers, accreditors, institutional leaders, and attorneys to help articulate policy implications for recently released...

While a liberal arts education offers a myriad of benefits – communication, collaboration, critical thinking, social responsibility and community, and “learning how to learn” – it also suffers from...

WCET, the leader in the practice, policy, and advocacy of digital learning in higher education, brought together innovative thinkers to discuss and collaborate around pragmatic solutions to today’s higher...

Online Program Management (OPM) companies have been around for two decades, helping colleges and universities create scalable online programs, in a growing and important market. The OPM market is...

Female students in online programs often face challenges in addition to their coursework – including working, parenting, and caregiving. What are the unique challenges mothers in online programs face,...

More than ever, students seek to invest in programs that prepare them to obtain employment in their field of study upon graduation. Meanwhile, government and corporate leaders also increase...

A college degree is a valuable tool for many seeking to earn higher incomes and build stronger lives. However, with an increasing proportion of diverse, “post-traditional students” who hail...

Wiley Education Services conducted a proprietary research study, which consisted of surveys and personal interviews with graduate students and aimed to better understand the motivations, behaviors, attitudes, needs, and...

In 2019, an essential handbook was released by two leading experts in data analytics, titled An Analytics Handbook: Moving from Evidence to Impact. This handbook introduces the reader to...

Hosted by the State Authorization Network, this webinar discussed how all institution staff must share in the responsibility of data protection and privacy.  Key points were shared to protect ourselves,...

Chris Gilliard was the 2018 WCET Annual Meeting keynote speaker who shared how we can understand equal access to technology and information in the digital age. His presentation looked...

Building on a partnership that began with WCET helping bring WGU to inception in the mid-1990s, WCET and WGU partnered on a webcast series to bring the WCET Community...

As a part of “The Year of Accessibility,” OLC and WCET collaborated to bring our communities resources on the topic of accessibility. Since the Department of Justice and the...

WCET, the leader in the practice, policy, and advocacy of technology-enhanced learning in higher education, brought together innovative thinkers and pragmatic solutions during the Annual Meeting and 30th Anniversary...

WCET has had an active voice on academic integrity and cheating since 2008. In 2018, academic integrity was threatened by a notable increase in the commercialization of academic dishonesty...

Consider the following scenario: You are a senior administrator at a public college/university. To date, your institution has offered just two selective online degree options. Your board wants to...

Each year, over a million students drop out of college or university—some 31 million Americans in the last two decades. In fact, only 48.3% of first-time, full-time students at...

The Workshop is sold out. Email Rosa Calabrese to get added to the waitlist. Are you well versed in basic state authorization compliance strategies, but desire advanced discussions and best practices direction?...

In 2018, we saw an increase in the number of institutions, systems, and states implementing open educational resource initiatives. This webinar featured three WCET members who have been part...

Consortia leaders believe in partnering to accomplish more through working together. However, it can be tricky to figure out exactly which services to offer, which to consider for the...

According to Allen Tough, adult learners spend an average of 15 hours per week, nearly 800 hours annually, participating in self-directed learning*. Motivations to begin such a learning journey...

2018 Summit Policy Track Please join us and our partners UPCEA, CAEL, and OLC, as we seek to reshape the landscape of federal and state policy. In addition to providing...

This workshop is full! Contact Rosa Calabrese to get added to the waitlist. Do you manage state authorization compliance at your institution?  ….OR are you in another institution office such as...

WCET’s 7th Leadership Summit facilitated a discourse on three important goals that institutions of all sizes and sectors should embrace: Equity as a demonstrated priority for the institutions’ students,...

Behavioral Analytics gathers student engagement data to inform recruitment, enrollment, and retention. It can allow institutions to learn the strengths, skills, and preferences of students, helping them to have...

Who Should Attend? Designed for those who are performing the work of state authorization for their institutions in multiple states. SAN’s partnership agreement with NASASPS provides SAN members the...

By working together, we can accomplish more than we can on our own. That is the goal of multi-institutional consortia. This was the first in a series of webcasts...

In 2018, OLC and WCET explored several issues on which they could partner to better serve our membership communities. Assuring the accessibility in courses, websites, student services, and all communications rose...

Improving student success is a challenge faced by many colleges and universities across the country and commands innovative solutions. Portland State University (PSU) embraced this challenge and deployed a...

A WCET and State Authorization Network (SAN) collaboration webcast.     As institutions move from the Information Age to the Virtual Age, cyberthreats are a certainty. It isn’t a...

What should higher education leaders be doing now to prepare for a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a growing role? This webcast provided a survey of the state...

In 2017, trends in edtech included an increasing emphasis on open educational resources, adaptive learning, and stackable credentials. What edtech trends and issues did leaders think would impact our...

In the wake of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General’s recommendation regarding Western Governors University, questions about federal financial aid for innovative delivery models for higher...

WCET, the leader in the practice, policy, and advocacy of digital learning in higher education, brought together innovative thinkers to discuss and collaborate around pragmatic solutions to today’s higher...

A Conversation with WCET’S Digital Inclusion Award Winner This year, WCET partnered with GlobalMindED to present the inaugural Digital Inclusion Award. The Digital Inclusion Award, is not about infrastructure, it is about...

The workshop is now full! Email Rosa Calabrese to add yourself to the waitlist. Back to Basics for State Authorization Do you manage state authorization compliance at your institution?  ….OR are...

eLearning consortia foster inter-institutional partnerships to share resources, best practices, and often infrastructure with the goal of increasing institutional capacity for online and technology-mediated courses and programs. Learn how...

In a 2014 audit report, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General concluded that “Distance education…creates new opportunities for fraud, abuse, and waste in the Title IV...

WCET’s 6th Leadership Summit engaged institutional leaders in a strategic discussion of how to best align and support an institution’s human capital, technology investments, and content strategy to sustain...

State Authorization research has been a support to institutions for their compliance work for many years. Meet the authors of our new white papers who will provide an overview...

Recognizing learning that takes place outside of the classroom helps students build a well-rounded portfolio of skills and receive credit, which aids in course and degree completion. Institutions are...

Hosted in partnership with Wiley Education Services. Strategic Portfolio DevelopmentTM (SPD) is a forward-thinking program planning approach that helps institutions position themselves to more efficiently operate in today’s market...

What are the new requirements for NC-SARA Enrollment Data Collection and Reporting for May 2017 and beyond? Learn about important topics such as the submission timing of future surveys,...

The webcast was a facilitated conversation between experts on the price and cost of distance education who hold competing perspectives and participating WCET members. The WCET Price and Cost...

WCET and the IMS Global Learning Consortium Accessibility Community of Practice held a webinar to explore the challenges and opportunities for standards-based accessibility work. Accessibility is a complex topic...

The world of content is complex and rapidly evolving.  From varying types of content, to varying modalities of delivery of that content, institutions are struggling to understand the content...

In 2016 adaptive courses and content grew as a strategy for increasing student success and completion, while MOOCs still held a footing as delivery model for some, the term...

Hosted in partnership with Blackboard. The Internet of Things has moved from a concept on the edges of our minds and at the gateway to our institutions to the...

Time: 9:00 AM Hawaii/ 11:00 AM Alaska/ 12:00 PM PDT and Arizona / 1:00 PM MDT/ 2:00 PM CDT/ 3:00 PM EDT Hear the SANsational award winners share their state authorization...

WCET, the leader in the practice, policy, and advocacy of digital learning in higher education, brought together innovative thinkers to discuss and collaborate around pragmatic solutions to today’s higher...

Online education continues to grow at a greater rate than the rest of the higher education sector, with some projecting that online college students will make up close to...

WCET has long supported multi-institution consortia in their collective efforts to improve services for their member institutions and, ultimately, their students. In this webcast, we heard about innovations at...

WCET’s Leadership Summit convened pioneering leaders from across higher education and workforce to consider new mechanisms for credentialing both formal and informal learning for students in ways that are...

Institutions must have appropriate internal controls to prevent, detect, and report suspected fraud or abuse of federal financial aid funds. An October 2011 Dear Colleague Letter from the U.S....

  This Summit is designed to provide valuable and actionable insights into the latest trends, best practices, and cutting-edge technologies in the field of artificial intelligence and generative text...