Sloan-C Honors Effective Practices in Online and Blended Education

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Newburyport, MA, July 2010 -- The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, will present its 2010 effective practice awards at the 3rd Annual Sloan Consortium Symposium, Emerging Technologies for Online Learningin San Jose, California on Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Bruce Chaloux, President of Sloan-C, and John Bourne, Executive Director of Sloan-C, will present the awards listed below. The awardees were selected for recognition because the effective practices provide evidence of innovation and replicability. The practices advance the Sloan-C goals of access, learning effectiveness, faculty and student satisfaction, and scalability.

An Online Supplemental Instruction Tool Array

Saddleback College

Lawrence Perez

Patrick Quigley

Candice Harrington

"Automatic" gradesheets: A Holy Grail for simultaneously improving faculty and student satisfaction

Metropolitan State University

James T. Fatzinger

GradeGuru: Bringing peer-support and collaboration to online learning with web 2.0 McGraw-Hill Higher Education for the GradeGuru team

Emily Sawtell, Senior Director of Student Innovations

Bringing the Demo Home

Western Technical College

Patricia A. Adams

Sally Davis

Facilitating Student Achievement in Online Courses with Self-Regulated Learning Segments Quinnipiac University

Bernard Grindel

Christopher Neidig

Jennifer Rafferty

Frances Rowe

Resources to assist educators with the delivery of student workshops

University of Leeds

LearnHigher CETL

Carol Elston

Semantic Mapping of Learning Assets

American Public University System

Phil Ice

Jennifer Staley

Chad Patrizi

Justin Beals

Using online multimedia resources to support students working in teams

University of Leeds

And multiple institutions

Julia Braham

Carol Elston

VoiceThread: Enhanced Community, Increased Social Presence and Improved Visual Learning Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Details about the awards are available at http://sloanconsortium.org/effective.   

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The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education. Membership in the Sloan Consortium provides knowledge, practice, community, and direction for educators. Originally funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C is now a non-profit, member sustained organization. Join with Sloan-C to lead higher education in meeting social needs for affordable access, quality innovations, and teaching and learning excellence.