WICHE ICE enables students, through their home institutions, to seamlessly access high quality online courses and programs offered by other four-year and two-year ICE member institutions. The collaborative model fosters faculty engagement, resource sharing, and innovation.

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WICHE ICE Benefits

WICHE ICE membership can help your institution respond to student demand for specialized and popular courses and programs. By joining WICHE ICE, your institution will:

offer expanded online course and program offerings to students.
respond more quickly to workforce demands by sharing online courses and programs with other accredited institutions.
review courses from member institutions for requirements and assess their quality before students take them.

Beyond more opportunities for students, institutions will also:

increase marginal revenue for courses that are not filled to capacity.
support effective student learning, assessment and continuous improvement.
achieve cost efficiencies by avoiding or sharing the cost of new course and program development.
share faculty in hard to staff disciplines.
keep courses with low enrollments viable.

WICHE ICE benefits students by providing:

convenient and flexible access to a wider range of courses, academic programs and faculty expertise in a variety of disciplines.
seamless financial aid and credit transfer.
opportunities to take courses that can help them graduate faster and avoid having to register at multiple institutions.
academic advising at their home institution.
information on how a course will be credited toward their degree before they enroll.

States and regions involved in WICHE ICE will:

respond more quickly to workforce demands by offering online courses and programs collaboratively.
help more people take advantage of higher education opportunities.

Faculty members at WICHE ICE member institutions will have opportunities to:

teach in their area of expertise to a broader range of students.
collaborate with faculty at other member institutions.
assist students with the selection of distance courses and programs.
teach more specialty courses that are made possible by combining enrollments from more than one institution.

Expand your online academic offerings....

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"Looking for a way to offer online courses that provide your students more choices, stretch your funding, and keep low enrollment programs running? Check out WICHE ICE which provides a proven framework that supports inter-institutional collaboration, pairing providers with institutions that are looking for ways to enhance options."
Sam Gingerich, ICE Chair and System Vice President for Academic Affairs, South Dakota Board of Regents
"While universities and colleges have probably never been able to afford the faculty expertise and course diversity that would best benefit student learning, now during bad economic times it is essential for institutions to share resources in order to enhance learning opportunities and reduce costs. WICHE ICE is a proven organizational and financial structure that allows institutions to share courses and programs effectively, while ensuring that students have enhanced access to learning opportunities without additional administrative burdens."
Maggi Murdock, Associate Provost and Dean, Outreach School, University of Wyoming
ICE supplements the curriculum, allowing students to tap into expertise from around the region. It both broadens and deepens a program’s offerings.

John Dede, Interim Director of the Faculty Technology Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
"There are increasingly compelling reasons for certain programs to be developed and delivered collaboratively, and WICHE ICE provides the logistics for doing so."

Mark Wheeler, Dean, Extended Studies, Boise State University
"I have enjoyed teaching WICHE ICE students through an online course at UAA. They tend to be very engaged throughout the courses."

Becky Porter, Instructor, Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services, University of Alaska Anchorage
(Becky Porter is an instructor for the Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services at the University of Alaska Anchorage. During Spring 2011 and 2012 semesters, she taught a series of three workshops on the topic “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.” Typically 10 students from another institution enroll in each workshop through ICE.)

"While universities and colleges have probably never been able to afford the faculty expertise and course diversity that would best benefit student learning, now during bad economic times it is essential for institutions to share resources in order to enhance learning opportunities and reduce costs. WICHE ICE is a proven organizational and financial structure that allows institutions to share courses and programs effectively, while ensuring that students have enhanced access to learning opportunities without additional administrative burdens."

Maggi Murdock, Associate Provost and Dean, Outreach School, University of Wyoming

Internet Course Exchange (ICE)

Resources : Getting Started

WICHE ICE Benefits

Expand your online academic offerings....

Join WICHE ICE now!

Check out our special promotions for FY 2013!