Adaptive Learning: The Future is Up to Us

August 8, 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

Today we’re excited to welcome back Patricia O’Sullivan, the Program Manager for Externally Funded Academic Innovation Projects at the University of Mississippi. Patti inspired us last year with the University of Mississippi’s work in this area to help their students and improve student success. Today she’s back to Frontiers to consider what’s happening with adaptive […]

An Introspective Look at WCET’s Own Accessibility Practices, Part II

August 5, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Photograph showing a pink accessibility sign, which points towards a “Step Free Route.”

Last week, I began to explain what WCET is doing – and potential areas of improvement – about web accessibility, based on different disabilities and barriers that people with those disabilities may encounter as described by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Check out my first post for background information on what led me to […]

An Introspective Look at WCET’s Own Accessibility Practices, Part I

August 2, 2019.Reading time 15 minutes.

Alt text: Icon produced by the Accessible Icon Project showing a person in motion in a wheelchair.

Are your course materials and institutional websites accessible for all learners? Here at Frontiers, we discuss accessibility quite often, but today we have a very practical post that directly reviews content to determine accessibility for all. I’m excited to welcome Rosa Calabrese, WCET’s Digital Designer, who is here to discuss her review of the accessibility […]

Finding Quality in All the Right Places: Promoting Online Course Reviews to Faculty Designers

July 11, 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

How do you ensure quality in online courses? That word gets a lot of buzz in higher ed! Today’s Frontiers post is all about quality and how to implement a course certification process. Joining us from the University of Central Florida is Senior Instructional Designer Aimee deNoyelles, who co-designed an online course review process for […]

College affordability and the Democratic presidential debates: Is free college higher education’s moonshot?

July 1, 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

Photo of the first footprint from mankind on the moon

The Democratic debates are heating up already and they were quite interesting to watch (and it was also interesting to read the social media commentary). Today our new Policy and Planning Consultant, Van Davis, is here to provide an update on the candidate’s higher education plans and how each of these might impact higher technology-enhanced […]

Addressing the Skills Gap and New Opportunities in Higher Ed

May 31, 2019.Reading time 14 minutes.

A group of young professionals around a table talking

Next week, WCET hosts it’s annual Leadership Summit. This year the topic is: Workforce Partnerships that Work: Creating Public-Private Partnerships that Serve Students, Institutions, Employers, and Communities. Summit attendees will attend sessions focused on higher education institutions can work with employers to create programming focused on helping students be more career ready and skilled for […]

Augmented Reality Adventures in Teaching Horticulture

May 22, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Today we welcome Shannon Riggs, Executive Director of Course Development and Learning Innovation for Oregon State University Ecampus. She is also the author of the forthcoming Thrive Online: A New Approach for College Educators (Stylus, 2019). Shannon shares with us a most fascinating and recent example of innovation — using Augmented Reality to teach Horticulture […]

Using Telehealth to Reimagine Online Nursing Education at Ohio State

May 17, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Nurse holding a patient's arm and taking his/her blood pressure.

Today we welcome Susan Neale, senior writer and editor for The Ohio State University College of Nursing. She explores a non-traditional approach to teaching remote nursing students the nuanced skills and tools needed to succeed in the field. Telehealth technology allows nursing students to gain experience with “patients” remotely, and students are prepared to provide […]

Accidental Adoption: When the Tool Finds You

May 3, 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

Picture of man sitting at a table and working on a laptop computer. He is wearing headphones and drinking coffee.

Today we welcome Kenneth Rogers, Enterprise Instructional Technology Specialist with Alamo Colleges District as he shares a story from which all contemporary educators can glean insight. Integrating new technology requires courage and a willingness to embrace change and yet springs tremendous growth and opportunity, just as Kenneth captures in this blog. Enjoy! -Erin Walton – […]

Negotiated Rulemaking: The Complexity of “Regular and Substantive Interaction”

April 26, 2019.Reading time 20 minutes.

Image of extremely complicated and complex geometry problem, including numbers, shapes, and graphs.

This is the third in our blog post series on the results of the U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking process. The first in the series focused an overview of process, issues, and next steps. The second covered rules for state authorization. Today, we focus on definitions that seem like they should be easy, but […]