Elements of Quality Online Education: Practice and Direction, Volume 4 in the Sloan-C series (2002) provides an overview of the status of online education, examples of effective practices, and directions for research and development. Volume 4 also addresses these questions: What pedagogical practices promote effective learning online? What are the key areas for achieving cost effective quality in online programs? What services enable new populations of learners to access higher education? What motivates faculty satisfaction in online teaching? What practices assure student satisfaction?

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Elements of Quality Online Education: Practice and Direction, Volume 4 in the Sloan-C series (2002) provides overviews of the status of online education, examples of effective practices, and directions for research and development.
Volume 4 addresses these questions: What pedagogical practices promote effective learning online? What are the key areas for achieving cost effective quality in online programs? What services enable new populations of learners to access higher education? What motivates faculty satisfaction in online teaching? What practices assure student satisfaction?

Table of Content

Introduction
Frank Mayadas, John Bourne, Janet C. Moore

I. Learning Effectiveness

1. Learning Effectiveness: What the Research Tells Us
   Karen Swan
2. Cognitive Presence for Effective Asynchronous Online Learning: The Role of Reflective Inquiry, Self-direction and Metacognition
   D. Randy Garrison
3. Improving Quantitative Research Methods in Studies of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN)
   Starr Roxanne Hiltz, J.B. Arbaugh

II. Cost Effectiveness

1. Linking Cost Effectiveness with Institutional Goals: Best Practices in Online Education
   Tana Bishop
2. The Costs of Learner-Centered Online Learning: An Exploratory Case Study
   Christine Geith
3. Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in First Year Reading and Writing
   Gregory L. Waddoups, Gary L. Hatch, and Samantha Butterworth

III. Access

1. Improving Access to Online Learning: Current Issues, Practices & Directions
   John Sener
2. Access Issues and the Current State of Practice at the University of Maryland University
   College
   Merrily Stover
3. Removing Barriers to Access: Policy Initiatives to Make Distance Learning Accessible, Affordable, and Available to All Learners
   Bruce N. Chaloux

IV. Faculty Satisfaction

1. Faculty Satisfaction in the Online Teaching-Learning Environment
   Melody M. Thompson
2. The IUPUI Story of Change
   Erwin Boschmann
3. Institutional Support for Online Faculty: Expanding the Model
   Marie J. Fetzner

V. Student Satisfaction

1. Student Satisfaction with Online Learning: An Expanding Universe
   John Sener and Joeann Humbert
2. Longitudinal Success Measures for Online Learning Students at the Rochester Institute of Technology
   Karen Vignare
3. A Preliminary Investigation of “Teaching Presence” in the SUNY Learning Network
   Peter J. Shea, Eric E. Fredericksen, Alexandra M. Pickett, and William E. Pelz