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A letter from the editors
of the Sloan-C View
This issue of the View welcomes the American Distance Education Consortium to membership in the Sloan Consortium.
One of the first organizations recognizing the technology's potential for expanding learning networks, the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) emphasizes digital inclusion, networking people and knowledge, as the real value addition to higher education. Janet
Poley , ADEC president and founder, calls for partnerships that help universities become more open, accessible, and flexible.
In the Opportunities column, Tana
Bishop recommends “Embracing
Disruptive Innovation with the Next Generation
of E-Learners,” as
digital natives will demand new pedagogies. John Sener reviews
two books that discuss the pedagogical possibilities
that digital games
may offer, and he offers to help readers write
up their effective practices for inclusion in the
Sloan-C collection at: http://www.sloan-c.org/effective/index.asp.
New practices in this issue come from the Universities
of Calgary, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Atlantic Cape
Community College.
We are looking forward to a lively online workshop
beginning in March 2004. Sloan-C authors will share
their work on a pre-publication CD version of Volume
5 in the Sloan-C series on
quality online education: Elements of Quality Online
Education: Into the Mainstream.
The CD version features powerpoint presentations
of the papers, with audio and video. Most of the
workshop will be asynchronous, however,
participants will also experience Elluminate, a
nifty new synchronous conferencing system (visit
our Elluminate
Fact Sheet).
Designed for rapid, productive interaction, the
workshop will respond to challenge questions to
build on the knowledge presented in Volume 5, incorporating
your own experiences and questions. Sloan-C will
publish the workshop results, and results may be
the beginning of proposals for multi-institutional
grants. Bring a group from your school to qualify
for greater knowledge and significant discounts.
You are welcome to join and to visit Sloan-C
soon and often.
Best wishes for the happiest new year ever,
…
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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