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WCET Survey of Institutional Digital Learning Definitions – Preliminary Report on Key Themes, Insights, and Challenges

WCET Frontiers

What goes into the institutional decisions on defining these terms? WCET – the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, gathered information relating to institutional definitions, policies, and procedures relating to digital learning definitions (such as distance, online, hyflex, hybrid, etc.)

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DUANE WATSON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Duane Watson Duane Watson has been named associate provost for faculty development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Mayborn Professor and professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt. in brain and cognitive sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Watson serves as the Frank W.

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The Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain: Ensuring Quality and Excellence in Higher Ed Institutions

Creatrix Campus

This post is all about HEC - let’s explore its doings, step-by-step process, the committee involved in accreditation, and how institutions like yours should prepare to attain a good grade. The HEC is a government-affiliated organization that was established to oversee the development of the higher education sector in Bahrain.

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Keywords in higher ed: AI authoring tools

Academic Tech Tips

As a student that has kept nearly every required textbook, I can reflect on the utility of such a cogent textbook concept, and now would like to transfer its reader-friendly approach to the great wide realm of instructional technologies—to start, within in the smaller realm of AI authoring tools for teaching and learning.

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Celebrating the Good

Continuous Learning Institute

Grading Reform: More faculty than ever before are reimagining grading practices. Technology as a Pedagogical Ally: The technology faculty were forced to use during the Great Shift to Online is now being leveraged to improve their craft for in-person instruction.

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The Shift in Digital Learning Modalities: Is Higher Education Ready?

WCET Frontiers

The mix of courses with digital components demanded by students and offered by institutions has changed. This new report, released today, details the results of a survey on faculty and student desires regarding digital learning offerings and faculty readiness for the digital learning shift. Buildings feel a bit emptier.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. To this end, developing authentic assessment tasks might be the most effective approach for educators.