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Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream: Wisdom from the Sloan Consortium
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Of value to practitioners in the full range of educational contexts, the sixteen wisdom papers in this collection include perspectives ranging from programs and institutions to effective practices to insights about the future of higher education as new models emerge that will improve learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, access, faculty satisfaction and student satisfaction.
Each year, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation invites practitioners to a
workshop to confer and share their practical research on specific
challenges of importance to quality online education. These summer
research workshops result in the publication of annual volumes in the
Sloan Consortium quality series and in online workshops that use the
annual volumes as a starting point for disseminating information and
building knowledge with a wider audience. The 2003 Summer
Research Workshop produced volume 5 in the Sloan-C series on
quality education: Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the
Mainstream—focusing on student satisfaction, learning effectiveness,
blended environments, and assessment—and in online research
workshops that have engaged more than 500 practitioners from many
schools, organizations, and nations in exploring new models for
excellence in online education.
In 2003, summer research workshop participants were also invited to
do something new—to provide brief perspectives on topics of their
own, relating their own experiences and perspectives that are useful to
other practitioners.The sixteen wisdom papers in this collection represent views ranging
from programs and institutions, to effective practices, and to insights
that will affect the future of learning.
Introduction
Janet C. Moore, John Bourne, and Frank Mayadas
I. Institutional and Program Perspectives
- The Value of Online Learning: Perspectives from the University of Illinois at Springfield
Burks Oakley II
- Lessons from the ALN Home Front: Pace University’s 2003 NACTEL Graduates and Educational Learning Theory
David A. Sachs
- A Viable Opportunity for Deaf Results in Effective Strategies for All
Joeann Humbert and Karen Vignare
- Year-Round College Instruction and ALN
Victor Kobayashi
- A Systems Approach to Effective Online Teaching and Learning: A Preliminary Examination of Linkages Between Student and Faculty Satisfaction
Tana Bishop and Claudine SchWeber
II. Effective Practices
- Increasing Design and Development Productivity for Computer-Aided Online Learning
Olin Campbell
- Assisting Students with Self-Directed Learning Skills
Lynn Hunter and Susan Nesbitt
- The Virtues of Teaching Literature Online
Razak Dahmane
- The Liberal Arts Ideal in an Asynchronous Age
Cornell J. Reinhart
- The Delphi Process as a Collaborative Learning Method
Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Zheng Li, Yuanqiong Wang, and Hee Kyung Cho
III. The Future
- Online Learning Has Come of Age: Four New Frames of Reference
John Sener
- Second-Generation Faculty Development for Online Learning: Community-Building and Resource-Sharing
George Otte
- At the Crossroads: “The Long Now,” A Future of Possibilities
Janet K. Poley
- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Breakthrough Series Model (BTS) for Collaborative Improvement
Penny Carver
- Online Education in the Mainstream: Missing Markets, Digital Immigrants, and Variable Costs
Gregory W. Hislop
- Increasing Adult Access to E-Learning: Five Strategies for Overcoming Policy Barriers
Bruce Chaloux
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