Elements of Quality Online Education (Paperback)

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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?

These are the questions the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation invited educators to study in a collaborative Sloan Consortium workshop that convened in September 2001. Ten peer-reviewed case studies present a wealth of inside information about the strategies successful programs are using to improve learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, access, and student and faculty satisfaction. These elements of quality constitute the mission of the Sloan Consortium: to make education a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.

About the Author

John R. Bourne is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College, Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and directs the Sloan Center for on OnLine Education at Olin and Babson Colleges. He was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he had been on the faculty since 1969. Dr. Bourne has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Begell House Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering since 1979. He founded the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks and remains as editor. He established the Sloan Foundation supported Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) Web in 1996.

Contributors:

Tana Bishop, Graduate School, University of Maryland University College

J. Olin Campbell, Brigham Young University

Tamsin B. Crissman, Academic Advisor, Penn State Distance Education/World Campus

Leigh S. Estabrook, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Eric Fredericksen, Assistant Provost for Advanced Learning Technology, State University of New York

Professor Nancy Hale, Chairperson, Pace University, School of Computer Science and Information Systems

Starr Roxanne Hiltz, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Jean McGrath, Director, Student Services, Penn State Distance Education/World Campus

Heather Kiris Middleton, Assistant Director, Student Services, Penn State Distance Education/World Campus

William Pelz, Herkimer County Community College

Alexandra Pickett, Assistant Director, SUNY Learning Network

Dr. David Sachs, Assistant Dean, Pace University, School of Computer Science and Information Systems

Claudine SchWeber, Office of Distance Education and Lifelong Learning (ODELL) University of Maryland University College

Peter Shea, Director- The Teaching, Learning and Technology Project, Advanced Learning and Information Services, State University of New York

Karen Swan, Associate Professor, Educational Theory and Practice, University at Albany SUNY

Anthony P. Trippe, Rochestor Institute of Technology, Computer Engineering Technology

Murray Turoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Yi Zhang, Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Sloan Center for OnLine Education (June 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0967774128
• ISBN-13: 978-0967774121
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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