• Annual Sloan-C Awards - Call for Nominations
• Institutional Assistance Program (Sloan-C IAP): Advisory Assistance for Faculty, Administrators and Institutions
• New Sloan-C Webinars
• Share Your Views: Another Way to Participate in the Sloan-C Community
  - Engaging the Adult Learner
  - "Transforming American Education"--National Policy and the Future of Online Learning
  - Tweeting Thoughts
• Sloan-C Certificate - Now with Program Specializations
• 16th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning - Keynote Announced

• 3rd Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium (July 20-23rd, San Jose) - Updates
• FREE Webinar - Social Networking & Fun Contests at the Emerging Technologies for Online Education Symposium
• 2010 Sloan-C Membership - More Benefits, Same Price
• 2010 College Pass Professional Development Package
• Learn From the Experts - Sloan-C Workshop Series
• Quick Links
• Featured Member Resource: Latest Issue of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks

2010 Sloan-C Effective Practice Awards- Winners Announced

Congratulations to the individuals and their institutions and organizations that Sloan-C awards not just for their achievements in advancing the field of online and blended education but for sharing their practices with us. Bruce Chaloux, Sloan-C President and John Bourne, Executive Director will formally present awards at the third annual Sloan Consortium Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium.

"Automatic" gradesheets: A Holy Grail for simultaneously improving faculty and student satisfaction
Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN)
James T. Fatzinger, M.Div., MBA

GradeGuru: Bringing peer-support and collaboration to online learning with web 2.0
GradeGuru, by McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Emily Sawtell, Senior Director of Student Innovations

Bringing the Demo Home
Western Technical College
Patricia A. Adams, MS Ed, RN
Sally Davis, MSN, RN, CNE

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, UK
LearnHigher CETL
Carol Elston

Semantic Mapping of Learning Assets
American Public University System
Phil Ice
Jennifer Staley
Chad Patrizi
Justin Beals

The Development of an Online Supplemental Instruction Tool Array
Saddleback College
Lawrence Perez
Patrick Quigley
Candice Harrington

Using online multimedia resources to support students working in teams
University of Leeds (UK)
Multiple institutions
Julia Braham
Carol Elston

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

Annual Sloan-C Awards - Call for Nominations

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) has recognized outstanding work in the field of online education through an annual awards process since 2001. The Call for Nominations for a number of Sloan-C awards is now available on the Sloan-C website:

The 2010 Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning Awards: http://www.sloanconsortium.org/excell_awards

The 2010 Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality Online Education: http://www.sloanconsortium.org/gomory_award

The 2010 A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award in Online Education: http://www.sloanconsortium.org/mayadas_award

To read more information about the other Sloan-C awards, please click here.

Institutional Assistance Program (Sloan-C IAP): Advisory Assistance for Faculty, Administrators and Institutions

Tap into the knowledge you need to advance your online education programs.

Sloan-C offers an Institutional Assistance Program (IAP) designed to provide access to consultants as a service to Sloan-C Institutional and Premium members. If your institution is not a member, you can click here to join. The IAP service facilitates visits to educational institutions by highly experienced practitioners (faculty, administrators, course designers, etc.) in online education.

The institution contracts directly with the consultant(s), negotiates rates and scope of work with the consultant(s), arranges the visit, and is responsible for paying the consultant an honorarium and travel expenses.

Many of Sloan-C's IAP consultants are among the leaders and pioneers in the field - their extensive experience can help you with a wide variety of topics: faculty buy-in, faculty development and support, infrastructure, accreditation visit preparation, development of quality metrics, work-force development, program review/revision, and many more.

Whether your institution is just starting out, expanding or moving to full-scale in online education, Sloan-C can help you succeed by sharing knowledge and expertise in the areas you need the most.

Just log in to the Sloan-C web site with your Institutional or Premium member account and complete the Consultant Selection and Service Request Form, or contact the Sloan-C Office directly (iap@sloanconsortium.org) to request information and assistance. Members can select consultants and contact them directly, or Sloan-C can assist with the selection process by recommending potential consultants from among its membership based on the institution's needs.

New Sloan-C Webinars

This year, Sloan-C has added webinars to its resources for educators. Webinars typically last anywhere from a half hour to an hour and a half. Most are free to Individual Members. Institutional members and non members pay a separate fee.

Providing Effective Feedback in Online Courses - July 14 2:00 - 3:30 ET

Are you looking for strategies to enhance the feedback you provide your students? In this webinar, you will learn about feedback strategies have the biggest impact online to enhance student learning and critical thinking.

FREE - Teaching Music Courses Online: Setting Up Your Course Design - August 11 2:00 - 3:30 ET

Today's online course design can be challenging, especially when creating your online content for music students. How the content is presented and organized is just as important as the content itself. Learn important design strategies to apply to your online music courses from established research in organizational course design

Please take a look at our upcoming webinars.
(Registrations for some of the webinars have not been opened yet.)

Share Your Views: Another Way to Participate in the Sloan-C Community

Below are blog posts of interest collected from http://www.sloanconsortium.org/blogs.

Commencement Speech at American Sentinel University
On July 25, 2010, John Bourne, Executive Director of the Sloan Consortium recently gave the commencement speech at American Sentinel University. The address titled "Online Education: Why You are Perfectly Positioned to Succeed in Life" is available for viewing.
Click here to read the blog post.

Tweeting Thoughts
We communicate with each other in a wide variety of ways. Recently, social media has been the rage - indeed even SloanConsortium has over 1600 followers on Twitter (wow!).... What I'm wondering is what is the contrast between the rapid 140 character communication permitted by twitter and the longer posts of listservs.
Click here to read the blog post.

"Transforming American Education"--National Policy and the Future of Online Learning
Transforming American Education, the U.S. Department of Education’s new plan for educational technology (http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010), sets the goal of increasing the proportion of college graduates who have a two or four-year college degree from the current rate of 39 percent to sixty percent by the year 2020. This is not an idle goal. As Al Powell noted in an earlier posting, it is driven by the need for more highly educated workers in a knowledge economy. It is a real need, not just a short-term policy goal. It also presents the opportunity to move online learning into the mainstream as part of higher education’s overall response to the need to adjust to new societal needs. There are several dimensions to this.
Click here to read the blog post.

Engaging the Adult Learner
Many of us who work with adult learners have experienced both the rewards and the challenges in dealing with this population. University of Phoenix (UoP), where I serve as adjunct faculty and under full disclosure, also received my doctorate, instituted a program earlier this year to provide a more stable foundation for students returning to school with 23 or fewer credits. Many of these students possess lower skill levels than the typical college freshman. The thought around designing what UoP calls the ‘First Year Sequence’ (FYS) stemmed from the concept of laddering material taught over multiple courses to more effectively develop these skills. Essentially, FYS comprises a mix of general education, academic preparation, and life skills that provide a platform enabling this student population to succeed in college.
Click here to read the blog post.

Evidence for Effective Practice Awards
To help make quality online education accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, the Sloan-C community shares techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed to insure quality and to give submitters some documentation for tenure and promotion files. Supporting documentation—evidence—is one of 5 values by which awards are selected.
Click here to read the blog post.

The Sloan-C Certificate - Now with Program Specializations

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 foundation 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 foundation course, individuals can select 3 individual electives, one specialization, or multiple specializations that best suit professional development objectives.

Specializations include:

• Administration - The Administration specialization is designed to help administrators, faculty, policy makers, and leaders in higher education who are interested in enhancing their leadership and management capabilities.
• Blended Learning - The Blended Learning specialization is designed to help faculty embrace the best practices of online learning and integrate with the traditional values of face-to-face instruction. (Note: If selected, the three workshops must be taken as a block and in sequence.)
• Design and Delivery - The Design and Delivery specialization is designed to help faculty to look at a variety of facilitation methodologies with emphasis on practical application and strategies associated with effecting positive student outcomes.
• Tools and Techniques - The Tools and Techniques specialization is designed to help faculty and administrators focus on relevant trends as well as gain practical experience with technology-enhanced learning.

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.

16th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning

Keynote Address – Dr. Peter Smith, Kaplan Higher Education

We are pleased to announce that Peter Smith, Senior Vice President of Academic Strategies and Development for Kaplan Higher Education., will present the keynote address at this year’s conference.

Join Peter as he discusses how emerging information technology and Web 2.0 have permanently changed the possibilities and potential of higher education. With the decline of content as the critical determinant of quality, there are three over-arching quality indicators that support "merit for the many" : personalization, customization, and mobility.

Dr. Smith will address these quality indicators in his keynote address, “Colleges for the 21st Century: the New Ecology of Learning.” In the talent-friendly College for the 21st Century (C21C), he argues, services will be organized around the needs of the learner, not the habits of the institution. Sharing common characteristics, C21Cs will tap into a new ecology of learning that supports personalized and customized learning around the world. Their purposes will include recognizing, creating and then validating merit in each learner and making it portable.

Register now for Early Bird Pricing! Don’t miss your opportunity to register at the reduced rate of $495 for regular attendees or $445 for Sloan-C members.

Early Bird registration deadline is October 15th.

3rd Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium (July 20-23rd, San Jose)

Registration Still Open for Pre-conference Workshops

Interested in learning more about Google Wave? Need to learn more about integrating Moodle in your online classroom? Want to learn how to say “yes” to mobile devices in your classroom? These are just a few of the offerings in our pre-conference workshops, held Tuesday June 20th at the Fairmont San Jose. Register now for these hands-on, interactive sessions covering a wide range of topics pertinent to emerging technologies in online learning. Workshops start at 9:00 a.m., with morning, afternoon and full day sessions offered. Half day workshops are $125; full day are $225. View full details on our workshops here.

Special Adobe Workshop and Focus Group

As a Gold Plus sponsor, Adobe is pleased to offer a pre-conference workshop at no charge to Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium attendees. Space is limited to 20 attendees per session. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please send an email to chinkley@sloanconsortium.org. Based on available space, invitations to attend will be emailed in early July.

This workshop will be repeated in the afternoon pre-conference workshop offering as well.

Adobe Higher Education Team
Session Information
Pre-Conference Workshop (1/2 Day)
July 20, 2010
9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.
1:30p.m.-4:30p.m. (repeat session)

Adobe Flash Catalyst is a game changer for education content creators. In this session you will build an interactive learning application without writing code. You will learn how to create things like active buttons, scrolling text panels, video players, and more. By the end of the session you will have created an eLearning application that can be deployed on any website or LMS. Even better, the code generated from your project can be used by a Flash Developer to take the project even further. Flash Catalyst is an entirely new way for anyone with a basic knowledge of Photoshop and/or Illustrator to enter the exciting world of interactive media design.

Adobe will also be conducting an Adobe Elearning and Collaboration Focus Group session Wednesday, July 21 4:30-6:00p.m. in the Gold Room. Join the Adobe Higher Education team for a discussion on new and emerging technologies. Participants in this session will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. No sign-up is required.

Virtual Attendee Option

Can’t join us in San Jose? Register for the Virtual Attendee Option! The virtual attendee option offers a robust program of over 50 presentations, including the keynote, plenary and closing sessions. View the virtual attendee program here.

Special Thanks to our Sponsors and Exhibitors

Thank you to all of our sponsors and exhibitors, whose support helps make this symposium possible! Special thanks to our Coast-to-Coast sponsors who support all 3 Sloan-C conferences. Please make a point to visit all our sponsors and exhibitors in the Exhibit Hall at the symposium and online at their Virtual Exhibit Hall “booth” here.

Coast-to-Coast Diamond Sponsor - Compass Knowledge Group

Coast-to-Coast Sterling Sponsor - ColloquyGroup

Coast-to-Coast Technology Sponsor - Sonic Foundry

Coast-to-Coast Platinum Sponsors:

Bisk Education, Coast Learning Systems, Echo360, Elluminate, Embanet, FigLeaf Software, Learning Objects, SunGard Higher Education, Waypoint Outcomes

Gold Plus Sponsor - Adobe

Gold Sponsor - Chronicle of Higher Education

Silver Sponso - Emantras/Mobl21

Bronze Sponsor - Softchalk

Exhibitors:

Blackboard, Comcourse, Desire2Learn, Digital Marketplace, Going On, Hands-On Labs/Labpaq, Inigral, I-O Corporation, MERLOT, Sloan Consortium, TechSmith, Tegrity, Turning Technologies, Unicon

FREE Webinar - Social Networking & Fun Contests at the Emerging Technologies for Online Education Symposium

If you are attending the conference in San Jose or virtually, you are invited to a sneak preview into the social networking site that will be available to all registrants during the event. This free 1 ½ hour webinar will give you instructions about how to access the social networking site to meet and network with others at the event, schedule the sessions you wish to attend and enter the contests to win great prizes.

Webinar: Thurs. July 15th 2PM ET
This Elluminate link will get you in up to 15 minutes prior to start time - https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=251&password=M.CFB503000123E7DD505EFC5CE4B520

Sloan-C Membership - More Benefits, Same Price

Join the Sloan-C community. In 2010 Sloan-C instituted many new member benefits and options based on input from our members and friends. We made membership rolling (no longer based on calendar year) and added free webinars, practitioner documents and new membership types, with no increase in rates. Membership includes full web access to effective practices, the JALN, free webinars, practitioner docs, discounts on workshops, conferences and much more.

Join now and get a special JALN issue "Leveraging Resources for Anywhere, Anytime Education."

Click here for more details.

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.

Elluminate

21st Century students learn differently. As 21st Century educators, you need the tools to reach them-regardless of geographical, physical, intellectual, and economic barriers. At Elluminate, we take global accessibility very seriously. While most eLearning and Web conferencing products are built with the mass market in mind, we take a radically different approach, elevating accessibility to a whole new level. Our No User Left Behind philosophy means that Elluminate Live! is completely cross platform, optimized for low bandwidth, and designed to engage all types of learners, including those with disabilities. Learn more about how Elluminate can help you deliver 21st Century learning today, http://www.ilearndifferently.net/.

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

College Pass - Dramatic group savings at Sloan-C workshops

Academic Continuity - Maintaining continuity of learning in a crisis situation

Avoiding Faculty Burnout - Practitioner Document

This Practitioner Document compiles key points on how to identify strategies for better time management for online teaching; understand exemplary techniques for administrating large online student groups; and learn what teaching practices are working for online professors at other institutions. Themes of the workshop include faculty issues and suggestions for avoiding faculty burnout. Each section includes a bulleted list of important “take-aways” from the sessions. Full documents are available for paid Sloan-C members.

Please click here to view the abstract.
Full articles available to members.

2010 Workshops

July:

• 14 - 23 : Fair Use and The TEACH Act: A Closer Look

• 14 - 23 : Student Success Strategies: Teaching Students Techniques to Utilize Online Reference Materials in Their Academic Work

• 14 - 30 : Getting Started: The First Step Toward Online Teaching

• 14 - 23 : Student Success Strategies: Teaching Students Techniques to Utilize Online Reference Materials in Their Academic Work

• 26 - August 6 : Using Moodle to Create Online Courses

• 28 - August 6 : Academic Integrity in Online Education

August:

• 4 - 13 : Providing Effective Feedback in Online Courses for Enabling Student Learning

• 11 - 20 : Podcasting in Higher Education: Current Trends and Applications

• 11 - 20 : Student PTSD and Faculty Stress in the Online Classroom

• 18 - 27 : Teaching and Learning with Online Labs: Developing Best Practices and Accomplishing Learning Objectives

• 25 - Sep 3 : Using the Community of Inquiry Survey for Multi-Level Institutional Evaluation

• 25 - Sep 10 : Getting Started: The First Step Toward Online Teaching

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