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A letter from the editors
of the Sloan-C View
With contributions from researchers
in the Sloan-C quality series of volumes and the forthcoming Sloan-C
Wisdom Papers, this issue shares
some views about collaborative learning as asynchronous
networks
for people.
“How Do People Learn?” describes the legacy cycle for problem-based or challenge-based learning. Whether online or face-to-face the cycle exemplifies the goals of learning environments that emphasize teaching, social and cognitive presence. This is the method Sloan-C will use in the 2004
Sloan-C Online Learning Research Workshop. The workshop is an expansion of the annual Sloan-C face-to-face Summer Research Workshop. As shared background for the workshop, participants will use a digital version of the forthcoming Elements
of Online Quality Education: Into the Mainstream, focusing on Student Satisfaction, Learning Effectiveness, Blended Environments, and Assessment. Volume 5 in the Sloan-C series will be published in book form this spring.
In an excerpt from “The Delphi Process as a Collaborative Learning
Method,” Murray Turoff and colleagues describe how a Delphi process
helps collaborators organize content and focus on topics for which
there is not already consensus. The full paper will be published in
a forthcoming volume of Sloan-C Wisdom Papers. The
new issue of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, is guest-edited
by Mark Milliron, President and CEO of League for Innovation in the
Community College, and Mary Prentice of New Mexico State University.
The League is a collaborative initiative that helps members use “any
available tool or technique to improve and expand learning.” Look
for more about the League in the next issue of the View.
Speaking of collaboration . . . your thoughts
for issues and news to include in the View are always welcome; please
contact publisher@sloan-c.org.
… for the Sloan Consortium
Frank Mayadas, John Bourne and Janet Moore
The purpose of the Sloan
Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually
improve
quality, scale, and breadth according to their
own distinctive missions, so that education
will become a part of everyday life, accessible
and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time,
in a wide variety of disciplines. You
are welcome to join Sloan-C: http://www.sloan-c.org.
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