Introduction

Janet C. Moore

I. Assessment

• Transformative Assessment of Online Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

Jacqueline Moloney and Steven Tello

• Evaluation of Online Programs: Developing Approaches in the Penn State World Campus

Melody Thompson and Pete Rubba

• Embedded Assessment in Pace University’s NACTEL Program: Better, More Timely Information

David Sachs

• Teaching Presence and Establishment of Community in Online Learning Environments

Peter Shea, Karen Swan and Alexandra Pickett

• Reciprocity Analysis of Online Learning Networks

Reuven Aviv, Zippy Erlich and Gilad Ravid

• Collaborative Assessment in Asynchronous Learning Networks: Research in Progress

Jia Shen, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Michael Bieber

• Factors in Cost Effectiveness of Online Learning

J. Olin Campbell

II. Blended Environments

• 2004 Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning in Higher Education

Chuck Dziuban, Joel Hartman, Mary P. Niemiec, Burks Oakley II, George Otte, Anthony G. Picciano, and Ray Schroeder

• RIT Introduces Blended Learning Successful

Joeann Humbert and Karen Vignare

• Blended Learning: Driving Forward Without a Definition

Stephen Laster

III. Transformations

• The Virtual Breakthrough Series Collaborative at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Penny Carver and Barbara S. Boushon

• Opportunity Knocks, Emails and Phones

Meg Benke

• The Planning and Development of RioLearn, Rio Salado’s New Online Learning System

Carol Scarafiotti

• Toward a Universal Learning Environment: A Vignette from the Future

David Porush

• Virtual Reality Worlds: Not Just Chat on Steriods?

David Cillay

• Is There a Tipping Point for Online Learning?

Claudine SchWeber

• Asynchronous Learning Networks and Organizational Change

Janet K. Poley

• Online Learning as a Social Innovation: Lessons from the Past

Murray Turoff

• The Sloan Consortium: Filling the National Policy Vacuum in Online Learning

Bruce N. Chaloux