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Engaging Communities: Wisdom from the Sloan Consortium

Engaging Communities: Wisdom from the Sloan Consortium
Overview: The nineteen papers in this volume portray organizations that are negotiating the simultaneous demands of tradition, the status quo, and the transformation of higher education. These wisdom papers include views on the ways assessment guides improvement; on the potential of blended environments; and on transformations that will give new meaning to the Sloan-C quality pillars of learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, access, and faculty and student satisfaction.

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Engaging Communities:
Wisdom from the Sloan Consortium

Introduction

Janet C. Moore

I. Assessment

• Transformative Assessment of Online Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

Jacqueline Moloney and Steven Tello

• Evaluation of Online Programs: Developing Approaches in the Penn State World Campus

Melody Thompson and Pete Rubba

• Embedded Assessment in Pace University’s NACTEL Program: Better, More Timely Information

David Sachs

• Teaching Presence and Establishment of Community in Online Learning Environments

Peter Shea, Karen Swan and Alexandra Pickett

• Reciprocity Analysis of Online Learning Networks

Reuven Aviv, Zippy Erlich and Gilad Ravid

• Collaborative Assessment in Asynchronous Learning Networks: Research in Progress

Jia Shen, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Michael Bieber

• Factors in Cost Effectiveness of Online Learning

J. Olin Campbell

II. Blended Environments

• 2004 Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning in Higher Education

Chuck Dziuban, Joel Hartman, Mary P. Niemiec, Burks Oakley II, George Otte, Anthony G. Picciano, and Ray Schroeder

• RIT Introduces Blended Learning Successful

Joeann Humbert and Karen Vignare

• Blended Learning: Driving Forward Without a Definition

Stephen Laster

III. Transformations

• The Virtual Breakthrough Series Collaborative at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Penny Carver and Barbara S. Boushon

• Opportunity Knocks, Emails and Phones

Meg Benke

• The Planning and Development of RioLearn, Rio Salado’s New Online Learning System

Carol Scarafiotti

• Toward a Universal Learning Environment: A Vignette from the Future

David Porush

• Virtual Reality Worlds: Not Just Chat on Steriods?

David Cillay

• Is There a Tipping Point for Online Learning?

Claudine SchWeber

• Asynchronous Learning Networks and Organizational Change

Janet K. Poley

• Online Learning as a Social Innovation: Lessons from the Past

Murray Turoff

• The Sloan Consortium: Filling the National Policy Vacuum in Online Learning

Bruce N. Chaloux