• JALN Issue 13:4 is Now Available!
• 7th Annual Blended Learning Conference and Workshop - Early Bird Registration Open!
• Call for Presentations for 3rd Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium Ending January 18th
• The New 2010 Sloan-C Certificate
• 2010 Sloan-C Institutional Membership - New Benefits

• 2010 College Pass Professional Development Package
• Learn From the Experts - Sloan-C Workshop Series
• Quick Links
• Featured Resource - Community Writing Project - Practitioner Document
• Upcoming Sloan-C Events

New Issue of the JALN is Now Available

JALN 13:4 is now available online and in print. Order a 1 year subscription or single copy today!

Re-examining & Repositioning Higher Education: 20 Economic and Demographic Factors Driving Online & Blended Program Enrollments
Kristen Betts, Kenneth Hartman, and Carl Oxholm III, Drexel University

Application and Evaluation of the Ecological Psychology Approach to Instructional Design (EPAID)
Judith Effken, Marylyn McEwen, Deborah Vincent, Kimberly Shea, Dianna Garcia-Smith, Youngmi Kang, College of Nursing, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Michael Young Department of Educational Psychology, The University of Connecticut

Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts? A Comparison of Small Group and Whole Class Discussion Board Activity In Online
Catherine A. Bliss and Betty Lawrence, Center for Distance Learning Empire State College

The Emotional in e-Learning
Raafat George Saadé and Dennis Kira, Concordia University

A Synthesis of Sloan-C Effective Practices: December 2009
Janet C. Moore, The Sloan Consortium

Click here to view the abstracts. If you are a member, please log in to read the full articles. (The full article will appear as a blue link under the abstract.)

7th Annual Blended Learning Conference and Workshop - Early Bird Registration Open!

April 19 - 20, 2010, Oak Brook, IL

The Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop provides the opportunity for administrative leaders, faculty members, instructional designers and researchers to discuss blended learning in higher education. Attendees will engage with one another throughout this conference by networking, considering effective practices and discussing assessment strategies. As an attendee, you and your institution will benefit from this highly interactive conference as well as gain the ability to continue discussion and interaction via Sloan-C's asynchronous online Moodle site and online workshops.

Early Bird registration is now open. Take advantage of this discount today.

Early Bird Prices:

Regular Attendee: $475
Sloan-C Member: $425
Student: $200
Presenter: $425
Exhibitor: $750

For complete details on this event, please visit our website at http://www.sloanconsortium.org/blended.

Brought to you by the partnership of the Sloan Consortium and The University of Illinois-Chicago.

Call for Presentations for 3rd Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium

Call for Papers Deadline is January 18th.

We invite you to submit a proposal for the 3rd Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium, to be held July 20-23, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. This year’s symposium is offered by Sloan Consortium in partnership with MERLOT and Moodle Moot.

The symposium focuses on the technologies that drive online learning effectiveness, highlighting research, applications and best practices of important emerging technological tools. We encourage submissions related to instruction, networking, assessment, open educational resources, new media and support services. Tracks call for demonstrations of research and practice related to pedagogy, immersive learning, innovation, community and scale as well as hands-on use of technology.

When submitting your abstract for review, you will have the option to have it considered for one of the following Conference Tracks. There are eight tracks plus one for pre-conference workshops.

Program Tracks include:

- The Cutting Edge
- Pedagogy
- Faculty Development
- Inventive Uses of Media and Tools
- Immersive Learning and Virtual Environments
- The New Learning Communities
- Emerging Technologies for Administration, Infrastructure, and Support Services
- Architecture and Applications
- Pre-conference workshops

In addition to submitting a proposal to one of the eight tracks, we invite you to submit a proposal for a pre-conference workshop. We are looking for intensive, in-depth, highly interactive sessions that explore key issues, tools and subject in great detail. The pre-conference workshop format allows for more detailed descriptions and walkthroughs during the quieter time before the conference.

The workshops have a high standard for innovation, creativity and the value-add that participants will take from the session. It is generally expected that there be a significant set of program materials beyond a power-point slide set, including sample materials, guides, etc. The program should not be a show and tell from one institution, but instead it must demonstrate a larger view.

Proposals must be submitted by January 18, 2010. Submit proposals online at http://et4online.merlot.org/.

For complete details on online submission of proposals, visit our Website at http://www.sloanconsortium.org/ET4online.

Brought to you by the partnership of the Sloan Consortium, MERLOT, and MoodleMoot.

The New 2010 Sloan-C Certificate

The Sloan-C Certificate prepares educators to teach and improve online courses using the Sloan-C pillars of quality in online education--learning effectiveness, scale, faculty and student satisfaction, and access. A unique feature of the certificate program is that expert mentors work individually with each certificate candidate to accomplish specific goals. The certificate consists of a 9-week foundational course and a variety of electives or learning specializations that focus on improving overall competency within a specific area of academic focus. The workshops in each specialization are structured to encourage skill development and practical application within the participants' specific job function. Upon completing the 9-week foundational course, individuals can select 3 individual electives, one specialization, or multiple specializations that best suit professional development objectives.

Participants achieve a Sloan-C Certificate by completing 3 chosen electives. Specializations will be cited on the candidate’s certificate of completion.

Specializations include:

- Administration
- Blended Learning
- Design and Delivery
- Tools and Techniques

The Sloan-C Certificate foundation costs $1,499 plus three (3) required electives; priced at $345 (10-day workshop) or $495 (3-week workshop). Elective workshops may be funded by coupons available through Sloan-C membership discounts and the Sloan-C College Pass professional development package.

Click here for more detailed information. For any questions regarding the certificate, please e-mail certificate@sloanconsortium.org.

2010 Sloan-C Institutional Membership - New Benefits

The Sloan-C Institutional Membership allows all faculty and administrators full Sloan-C web access. In addition, each institution receives (among other benefits):

* 10 $50 Sloan-C Conference discounts ($500 value)
* 20 $150 Sloan-C Workshop discounts ($3,000 value)
* 10% Discount on Sloan-C publications
* 10% Discount on College Pass ($349 Value)
* Access to the Annual Online Learning Survey, Special Topic Webinars and Practitioner Documents ('Tips & Insights’ from Sloan-C workshops)

Each member may join Sloan-C public and private online forums and is eligible for awards.

New for 2010

* Practitioner Documents: Key insights from our workshops. Workshop participants discuss and share tips, techniques, experiences and issues based on the topic of each workshop. As a member of Sloan-C, you can benefit from this shared knowledge and learn from your colleagues who are faced with the same challenges for moving into online learning. Click here for abstracts and list of Practitioner Documents.

* Premium Institutional Membership option: perfect for larger organizations with greater discount needs; includes discounts for exhibiting or sponsoring Sloan-C Conferences.

* Corporate Affiliate options

* Free Webinars (coming in 2010)

* Sloan-C Member logo for use on your website

* Access to list of faculty who have completed Sloan-C Certificate Programs

Price: $1,495

Community College Discount: 15%
Multi-Campus Institution (3+)Discount: 20%
HBCU Discount: 30%

The 2010 College Pass Professional Development Package

Looking for a cost effective way to give your staff and faculty access to the full range of Sloan-C online workshops?

The College Pass Professional Development Package includes 100 seats in the widely acclaimed Sloan-C online workshop series. Many institutions use the workshops as a cost-effective and convenient way to improve quality in online education while networking with new colleagues. Online workshops are 2 to 3 weeks long with convenient synchronous and asynchronous delivery.

Benefits

- 100 seats per year in over 75 Sloan-C online workshops which cover a variety of key online education topics.

- Institutions may share or transfer seats to any individual, not only to faculty and administrators.

- Additional workshop seat coupons may be purchased at the rate of $1,950 per 50 coupons.

Price: $3,495 bringing down the cost of a workshop seat to $34.95 (Workshops are regularly priced at $345 and $495.)

Click here for more information about the College Pass Professional Development Package.

Join the Sloan Consortium on Linkedin, Twitter & Facebook

Stay connected with The Sloan Consortium and its members through the Sloan-C networking groups on Twitter and Linkedin. Learn what others in online education are doing as well as receive news and conference updates from the Sloan Consortium.

Linkedin: Click here to join the Sloan Consortium group.

Twitter: Click here to follow the Sloan Consortium.

Facebook: Click here to join the Sloan Consortium group.

Plaxo: Click here to join the Sloan Consortium group.

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Membership - Join Sloan-C and enjoy added savings and access

Workshops - Tailored for faculty and administrators

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) - The leading journal for online education

Survey Reports - Latest findings from our research

Publications - The state-of-the-art in online learning

Effective Practices - Learn what works best from the best

College Pass - Dramatic group savings at Sloan-C workshops

Sloan-C Catalog - Listing of Sloan-C member online programs

Academic Continuity - Maintaining continuity of learning in a crisis situation

Community Writing Project - Practitioner Document

This Practitioner Document compiles feedback from the Sloan-C Community Writing Project. The catalyst for the Project was a May 2009 Department of Education report that states "…on average students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." Participants of the ongoing Community Writing Project use the Sloan-C Wiki as a platform to respond to the Department of Education report and share their insights into what makes online education effective. A transcript of the full Community Writing Project document is available for paid Sloan-C members.

Please click here to access abstract.
Full document available to members.

2010 Workshops

Jan:

• 13 - 22 : Copyright Compliance for Online Educators

• 20 - 29 : Lifting the Barriers to Online Education: Technology Applications for the Visually Impaired

• 27 - Feb 12 : Getting Started: The First Step Toward Online Teaching

Feb:

• 8 - Mar 1 : Designing Blended Courses and Building a Blended Learning Community

• 8 - Mar 1 : Delivering Content, Fostering Student Interactivity, and Assessing Learning in Blended Courses

• 10 - 19 : Beginning Second Life

• 10 - 19 : Online Learning and the Military Student: How You Can Better Serve Those Who Serve

• 17 - 26 : Video and Audio Tools for Teaching and Learning

• 24 - 12 : Using the Quality Matters Rubric to Improve Your Online Course

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