Online education has become the leading modality for distance education, and academic leadership expects online enrollment to grow as much as 25% per year. Thus, a central challenge to the nation is how to engage communities to make education “an ordinary part of everyday life.” To address this challenge, leading scholars and practitioners from forty colleges, universities and organizations gathered at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s annual invitational summer workshop in September 2004. Workshop papers collected here in Elements of Quality Online Education: Engaging Communities, volume six in the annual Sloan-C quality series, 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? How can the two worlds of academia and industry cooperate to contribute to a tenfold increase in online learning in the next ten years? What do we need to learn about the business of education?.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Frank Mayadas, John Bourne, and Janet C. Moore

I. How Can Online Pedagogy Improve On Face-To-Face Pedagogy?

• A Constructivist Model for Thinking About Learning Online
  Karen Swan
• The Real-Time Case Method: The Internet Creates the Potential for New Pedagogy
  James Theroux and Clare Kilbane.
• A Case Study in Blended Learning: Leveraging Technology in Entrepreneurship Education
  Barry Bisson, Edward Leach, Timothy Little, Robert Richards, Brian Veitch and Karin Zundel
• Engagement in Online Learning Communities
  Albert L. Ingram

II. How Can Asynchronous Learning Networks Engage the Core of Higher Education?

• Using Blended Learning to Drive Faculty Development (And Vice Versa)
  George Otte
• Higher Education, Blended Learning and the Generations: Knowledge is Power—No More
  Charles Dziuban, Patsy Moskal and Joel Hartman
• Adding Clicks to Bricks: Increasing Access to Mainstream Higher Education
  Raymond E. Schroeder and Burks Oakley II

III. How Can the Two Worlds of Academia and Industry Cooperate to Contribute to a Tenfold Increase in Online Learning in the Next Ten Years?

• * Instructional Technology Graduate Programs in Support of Corporate E-Learning
  Barbara B. Lockee and Michelle A. Reece
• * Implementing Curricula Using A Variety of Learning Modalities at Liberty Mutual Group
  Richard Benner

IV. What do We Need to Learn About the Business of Education?

• Business Issues in Online Education
  Stephen Schiffman
• The Business of Online Education: Are We Cost Competitive
  Rob Robinson
• Success Versus Value: What Do We Mean by the Business of Online Education?
  Doug Lynch
• Reinventing the University: The Business of Online Education
  Tana Bishop