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A letter from the editors
of the Sloan-C View
This issue welcomes and provides an overview of the League
for Innovation in the Community College, an organization that has supported excellence in learning for more than three decades.
The League’s more than
750 member schools share ideas, resources, initiatives
and training of value to leaders throughout higher
education.
Many League member schools are also members of Sloan-C,
and this issue provides links to online programs that
have been reviewed and approved for listing in the
Sloan-C
Catalog. This issue also links to Sloan-C
effective practices provided by
League schools. In addition to the special
February issue of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning
Networks,
the League has provided useful book reviews.
Welcome also to Ray Schroeder’s Hot Off the Blog, a new Sloan-C View column that
provides View readers with some highlights from his daily Online
Learning Update blog.
In other news of note, is an excerpt
from a collaborative report that pools knowledge
about ALN and the ways it can optimize learning in
developing blended programs. This report
is an outcome of the Sloan-C
Online Research Workshop that
concluded in April 2004. In answer to a workshop challenge
question—"How should knowledge about ALN inform
the development of blended environments?"—a
team of twenty colleagues from twenty schools who met
as members of a team named Enterprise-Endeavor-Constellation collaborated
on this response. A second (Summer School)
version of the online research
workshop
begins in July, and you are welcome to register for
it at:
http://www.sloan-c.org/workshop/vmay.asp.
We look forward to seeing you
online, and in person at the 10th Sloan-C
International Conference on ALN:
The Power of Online Learning—From Innovation
to the Mainstream in Orlando, Florida, November 12-14,
2004. Details about the conference are at
http://www.sloan-c.org/conference/index.asp.
Thank you sending for your comments and suggestions
to publisher@sloan-c.org. We hope you will visit Sloan-C soon and often.
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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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