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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream, Introduction - Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The workshop brought forward many issues facing the online education community. These issues include defining a common language, combining online and traditional education, achieving scale, managing costs and sharing resources, identifying best practices and understanding new roles. The workshop papers that make up this volume address major challenges with respect to student satisfaction, learning effectiveness, assessment and evaluation, and blended learning. In the ten years since the inception of the Sloan Consortium and the tenth anniversary of the Web browser, the field of online learning has entered the mainstream of higher education, making online learning a core ingredient of tomorrow’s educational paradigms. In fact, now that digital natives are coming of age, on-ground and online education can no longer stand apart. The blending of the two delivery modes is continuous and unstoppable. Moreover, increasing demands for wide choice suggest that the blended agenda presses rapidly into new realms of inquiry. Thus, the title of this collection, the fifth volume in the Sloan-C series on quality is Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream.
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