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Welcome Premium Members to our new ePremium central website. This new ePremium website is designed to offer to organizations many of the same Sloan-C resources, reports and publications in electronic form. Comments? If you have a question about this website, or the Premium Membership, please contact us at premium@sloan-c.org. Primary Sloan-C Premium Member Resources (You must be logged in as a Premium Member to access the following resources): Once you're logged in, feel free to discuss issues and findings with the authors or other Premium members. - Discounts on Publications and upcoming Sloan-C Workshops
- Sloan-C Special Survey Report: A Look at Blended Learning (PDF) - This report serves as an initial look at the challenges and motivations of developing a blended learning program for institutions involved with the Sloan Consortium.
- Volume 2 (PDF) Online Education: Learning Effectiveness, Faculty Satisfaction, and Cost Effectiveness - Volume 2 of Online Education focuses on Learning Effectiveness, Faculty Satisfaction and Cost Effectiveness from the perspectives of pioneer colleges and universities with fully online degree programs. 12 case studies examine critical issues involved in online education-how well people learn, how satisfied faculties are, and how costs are managed.
- Volume 3 (PDF) Elements of Quality Online Education - Elements of Quality Online Education, Volume 3 in the Sloan-C Series, is a groundbreaking study of important questions about quality in online learning from the perspectives of private, for-profit, and research university and college practitioners. What do learners like and dislike about online learning? What makes faculty happy and unhappy about teaching online? How can schools drive down costs and prices to achieve capacity enrollment while maintaining and improving the quality their distinctive missions have established? How can schools widen access to their programs by creating virtual environments that give timely and complete academic support and administrative services to build learning communities?
- Volume 4 (PDF) - Elements of Quality Online Education: Practice and Direction - An overview of the status of online education, examples of effective practices, and directions for research and development.
- Volume 5 (PDF) - Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream - An assessment of how education is making online learning a core ingredient of tomorrow's educational paradigms.
- Volume 6 (PDF) - Elements of Quality Online Education: Engaging Communities - Include provocative responses to these questions: How can online pedagogy improve face-to-face pedagogy? How can asynchronous learning networks engage the core of higher education? What do we need to learn about the business of education?
- Bonus Publication: Volume 5 Wisdom Edition (PDF) - Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream: Wisdom from the Sloan Consortium - A collection of wisdom papers in which top Sloan-C researchers provide brief perspectives on topics of their own, relating their own experiences and perspectives that are useful to other practitioners. 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.
Online Workshops Available (must be logged in as a premium member to access these workshops): - Blended Learning and the Generations
- Drawing on seven years of longitudinal data, the seminar discusses faculty and student demographics and the impact mixed-mode classes have on faculty ratings and student success and attrition.
- Sloan-C Online Research Workshop Series 2005 - How Online Can Be Better Than On-Ground
- A Constructivist Model for Thinking About Learning Online, The Real Time Case Study: The Internet Creates the Potential for New Pedagogy, Leveraging Technology in Entrepreneurship Education, and Engagement in Online Learning Communities
- Online Research Workshop Series 2005 - The "Business" of Online Education
- Sloan-C research has shown that business leaders in higher education believe online education will one day be better than on-ground education. But how? We examine ways in which this can be accomplished. In this workshop, we provide information from top researchers and administrators in the field as to how online education can enhance constructivist approaches, collaboration, and the development of classroom community.
- Online Research Workshop Series - Online Engineering Education: Learning Anywhere, Anytime
- Workshop addresses these key issues and more: 1. What implications does online education have for the future of engineering education? 2. What are the barriers to implementing engineering education online? 3. How can virtual laboratories be effectively used in engineering education?
- Online Seminar Series - Virtual Reality Worlds for Online Educators
- Virtual reality worlds, computer games, simulations, and animations can be powerful learning tools for active, engaged learning with visually rich hands-on experiences, trial and error activities, and virtual participation in historical events. Online virtual-reality worlds offer educators new opportunities to connect with their students.
- Online Seminar Series - Web Conferencing Technologies for Online Educators
- Learn how web conferencing technologies can improve an online faculty member's actual daily activities. How can the software make your life easier? Online office hours? Online study groups? We will share some innovative ways faculty at participating institutions are using web conferencing technologies to take higher education and online learning to the next level.
- Sloan-C Online Research Workshop Series 2004 - Summer Edition
Developed with 40 of the most influential researchers in the field of online learning, this workshop provides you with critical information about the most important issues in online learning, including blended learning, assessment methodologies, improving student satisfaction, increasing learning effectiveness, and other key topics in online learning.
Additional Resources for Premium Members: Sloan-C View Monthly eNewsletter - The intention of the Sloan-C View is to provide you with useful information about online learning, commentaries about the field and pointers to more details about the work of the Sloan Consortium. The View is published online as both web pages and in a downloadable Acrobat PDF format. Sign up to receive Sloan-C View announcements for free. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks - The aim of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks is to describe original work in asynchronous learning networks (ALN), including experimental results. The Journal adheres to traditional standards of review and authors are encouraged to provide quantitative data. In addition, major reviews and articles that outline current thinking will be accepted. The initial objective of the Journal is to establish ALN as a field by publishing articles from authoritative and reliable sources. Ultimately, the objective of the Journal is to be the central resource for knowledge about ALN.
2002-03 Survey Report - Sizing the Opportunity: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2002 and 2003 provides some key findings about U.S. higher education online education: Over 1.6 million students took at least one online course during Fall 2002, Over 1/3 of these students took all of their courses online, 81% of all higher education institutions offer at least one fully online or blended course, and a majority of academic leaders believe that the learning outcomes for online education are equal to or superior to those of face-to-face instruction. Log in as a premium member to discuss the results and implications of this survey report with the authors of this report and other premium members.
2003-04 Survey Report - Entering the Mainstream: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2003 and 2004 is our second annual survey and is based on responses from over 1,100 colleges and universities. It presents the state of online education in U.S. Higher Education, showing online enrollments continue to grow at rates faster than for the broader student population and that institutes of higher education expect the rate of growth to continue increasing. Log in as a premium member to discuss the results and implications of this survey report with the authors of this report and other premium members.
2004-05 Survey Report - Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005 represents the third annual report on the state of online education in U.S. Higher Education.
Among the key findings: Sixty-three percent of schools offering undergraduate face-to face courses also offer undergraduate courses online, among all schools offering face-to-face Master's degree programs, 44% also offer Master's programs online, sixty-five percent of higher education institutions report that they are using primarily core faculty to teach their online courses compared to 62% that report they are using primarily core faculty to teach their face-to-face courses, and the overall percent of schools identifying online education as a critical long-term strategy grew from 49% in 2003 to 56% in 2005.
ALN Principles for Blended Environments (PDF) - provides principles for developing blended courses and programs. Based on knowledge about ALN, the principles come from the collaborative effort of practitioners from 20 institutions that give the perspectives of faculty, administrators, IT and support specialists, and students.
Relationships Between Interactions and Learning In Online Environments (PDF) - provides a concise summary of research about interaction online and its implications for practitioners. It was created by Karen Swan, Kent State University, the Sloan-C Editor for Effective Practices in Learning Effectiveness. Sloan-C's Effective Practices (PDF) - collection includes practices submitted by members that have been reviewed, approved, and listed in the Sloan-C Effective Practices online collection. The Sloan-C framework identifies five pillars or key areas for achieving quality, and Effective Practice postings demonstrate evidence of effectiveness in these areas. To view an up-to-date table of new effective practices, please proceed to the effective practice website.
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