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WAMOE! Join our Web Accessibility MOOC - Brightspace Community - 0 views

community.brightspace.com/...oin_our_web_accessibility_mooc accessibility MOOC
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  • With registration opening today (Sept. 29, 2014) on D2L Open Courses, the Web Accessibility MOOC for Online Educators, or #WAMOE, is designed to help e-Learning professionals meet the challenges of compliance with the web accessibility requirements as they pertain to electronic learning environments.
  • There are weekly modules that are designed to help you improve your web accessibility skills specifically for teaching online
  • wlampner on 02 Oct 14
     
    Free MOOC designed to help e-learning professionals meet the challenges of compliance with web accessibility requirements as they pertain to electronic learning requirements.
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Higher Ed E-Learning Growth To Continue at Modest Pace Through 2015 -- Campus Technology - 0 views

campustechnology.com/...-Modest-Pace-Through-2015.aspx E-Learning technology
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  • wlampner on 21 Jul 11
     
    Predicted Expenditures for elearning tools and services
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Tips for college leaders to make online programs work | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ders-make-online-programs-work elearning TalkingPoints
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  • “Why are we doing e-learning?”  Is it to increase tuition revenue?  Decrease costs? Create greater access? Allow greater flexibility for our students? Experiment with new pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, so as to better educate a different generation of students? All of the above?
  • ultimately the senior no-wake proponents on campus will delay and/or sabotage any meaningful e-learning strategy.
  • all must understand the risks of NOT advancing one.
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  • key to succeeding is to incentivize faculty and senior staff.
  • sharing of tuition revenue generated from online courses and/or financial support for scholarly activities
  • same individuals must be engaged in defining and ensuring the highest level of quality of the online student experience
  • houghtful use of both internal and external resources, including independent marketing research
  • course development standards, teaching expectations, proper advisement and support services
  • measurable retention strategy
  • baseline for retention must be established
  • retention “dashboard” created to enable the provost to monitor all online programs
  • student-faculty engagement
  • careful use of third-party vendors and consultants to properly assess your institution’s market niche is typically a good expense.
  • more personalized, technologically advanced and affordable online degree program.
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Lumen Learning - Courseware: Candela - 0 views

lumenlearning.com/courseware-candela OER open_courseware
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    "Candela courseware from Lumen Learning provides an extremely low cost e-textbook alternative to expensive commercial textbooks in high enrollment college courses. Designed using open educational resources (OER), Candela courses offer much more than just an OER textbook. The Catalog includes OER-based courses for 50+subjects focusing on high enrollment courses students typically take during the first two years of college.
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Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views

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  • wlampner on 30 Jun 11
     
    Mentions accessibility issue with clickers.
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Learn@UW - Using Replace Strings - 0 views

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  • Patrick Tabatcher on 22 Jul 13
     
    List of available replace strings (i.e. display variables) available in D2L.
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Purdue U gets into competency-based education with new bachelor's degree - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...education-new-bachelors-degree CBE
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  • Many of the 600 or so colleges that are trying to add competency-based degrees are focused on adult, nontraditional students who want a leg up in the job market
  • in collaboration with specific industry partners, where an employer’s endorsement of the credential can lead to a graduate employee getting a promotion.
  • ther colleges' forays into competency-based education have been in disciplines with professional licensing and a heavy dose of task-based learning, which seems like an easier fit with academic programs based on mastery rather than time in a classroom.
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  • The toughest nut to crack for competency-based education appears to be bachelor’s degrees aimed at traditional-age students.
  • hat’s what Purdue University is doing with a newly approved bachelor’s in transdisciplinary studies in technology
  • ombines technical disciplines with the humanities.
  • Customization is a big part of the degree’s novelty.
  • which will blend technology-focused disciplines such as computing, construction management, engineering, and aviation with social sciences, the humanities and business.
  • kills employers need for a “thinking economy.” That means complex problem solving, effective communication, critical thinking and ethical judgmen
  • igital badges and produce e-portfolios to display their work
  • In order to do that in a traditional sense, this student would have to get at least one major and three minors
  • urdue’s degree track is based on the credit-hour standard, in which the demonstration of competencies is linked to corresponding college credit
  • he U.S. Department of Education has taken some heat from its own Office of the Inspector General for approving direct-assessment degrees
  • an inspector general audit of Western Governors University over the faculty role in competency-based education (the results of which have yet to be made public), have had a chilling effect on how regional accreditors view proposals for new direct assessment and other competency-based degrees
  • mployer groups, such as the National Association of Manufacturers, praised the new degree in written statements.
  • To scale a program with this level of customization would be challenging,
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Trump administration official describes plan to 'rethink' higher education through upco... - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...think-higher-education-through online CBE federal_rules
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  • epartment wants to drop a standardized definition for academic course work, known as the credit hour, that the Obama administration rewrote in 2010 to curb credit inflation
  • re-examination of requirements for online education
  • faculty interaction and state authorization rules
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  • evaluating rules for competency-based education and the outsourcing of academic programs to nonaccredited providers
  • ccreditors have clamored for the department to get rid of the credit-hour definition, complaining it is difficult for them to track. Officials from some colleges, particularly those offering competency-based programs, have argued that the standard makes it difficult to comply with federal aid requirements.
  • The credit hour probably interferes with innovation almost more than anything
  • biggest providers of nontraditional education today -- online colleges -- have far more data on faculty instruction and student engagement than any other type of institution. And accreditors, she said, would come up with new ways to evaluate academic workloads based on that data.
  • department will propose that negotiators discuss federal rules for the outsourcing of portions of academic programs to nonaccredited or noncollege providers
  • Currently, no more than half of a program can be administered by an outside entity, such as an online program management (OPM) company
  • uild on lessons being learned from an Obama-era experiment to allow such partnerships to receive federal aid, dubbed the EQUIP program
  • e department wants to put more of an onus on colleges to justify not taking transfer credit,
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