Sloan-C Now - June 2011
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Dear Educator: Please take a moment to review this month's Sloan-C NOW, a digest of events, information and notices of importance you won't want to miss.
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Call for 2011 Sloan-C Awards Submissions 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 2011 Nominations for a number of Sloan-C awards is now available on the Sloan-C website: The submission deadline for all of the 2011 Sloan-C awards is August 15, 2011. Please visit the awards page for more details. |
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17th Annual Sloan-C Online Learning Conference (Orlando) - Early Bird Registration offers pricing held firm since 2009! 17th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
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Sloan Consortium Board of Directors - Nominations Due August 1, 2011 Nominations are open for one vacancy that will occur on the Sloan Consortium's Board of Directors on January 1, 2012. To qualify, nominees must be current individual members, or their primary organizations must be institutional members, of the Sloan Consortium. All nominees will be reviewed by the Sloan-C Nominations and Elections Committee. The closing date for nominations is August 1, 2011. A slate of nominees will be sent to the Board of Directors in Fall 2011. The Board will elect a new director at its annual meeting in November 2011, to serve a three-year term. To nominate an individual, please go here, login, and submit the requested nomination materials/information. Click here for more information. |
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Sloan-C JobLine: Post Your Open Positions for Free To post a job, please log into your existing Sloan-C account or create one for free and then go to the entry form. |
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2011 Sloan-C Webinars 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. New webinars will be added soon. Check the webinar site frequently. Encouraging Your Faculty to Use MERLOT to Enhance Their Classes - FREE - July 20, 2011 2:00 - 3:30PM ET MERLOT, in partnership with the Sloan Consortium, presents this webinar to demonstrate various approaches to encouraging faculty on your campus to use technology by explaining simple ways that MERLOT resources can be integrated into classes. Supporting Faculty Virtually with Tools That Anyone Can Use - FREE - August 2, 2011 2:00 - 3:30PM ET If you are responsible for providing faculty training, this webinar will show you ways to use new online tools to create and deliver effective professional development. The presenter will discuss and demonstrate how he used screen recording software (Jing [free version] and Camtasia) to develop just-enough, just-in-time training modules and how he offered live faculty support using webinar software (Elluminate vRoom [free version]). For more information or to register, please go to the webinar page. View recordings of previous webinars. |
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Are You Prepared to Teach Online in 2011? Watch a recording of the informational webinar about the certificate program. 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 and 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.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, which should be registered for individually, may be funded by coupons available through Sloan-C membership discounts and the Sloan-C College Pass professional development package.
Click here for more details. |
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Institutional Membership - More Benefits, Same Price The reality for institutions everywhere is tighter budgets, more travel restrictions, and less available resources. Institutional Membership is for organizations that are ready to give their faculty and administrators access and discounts to resources dedicated to quality online learning at an affordable price. New benefits are frequently added such as the Quality Scorecard for the Administration of Online Programs, a tool used to measure and quantify elements of quality within online education programs in higher education. Also new for this year are more options for the College Pass Professional Development package, which gives an institution seats to our online workshops at a bulk discount rate. We now offer a 25 and 50 seat package along with our 100 seat package for smaller institutions.
Institutional Member Pricing (value of over $4,000) $1,495/Institution or Campus Click here to register. |
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The College Pass Professional Development Package - Membership Add On 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 is a membership add-on that includes bulk discounted seats in the widely acclaimed Sloan-C online workshop series for one year.
Institutional Membership +CP-100 seats: $4,990 College Pass Membership Add-On (for existing members only) 100 seats: $3,495 ($35/seat)
Community Colleges receive a 15% discount and HBCUs receive a 30% discount. Click here to register. |
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*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. Follow us on |
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