Sloan-C View, Third Volume

	Just Out! The third volume in the Sloan Consortium series on quality in online education is now available. At $34.95, Elements of Quality Online Education, Volume 3 is designed to share knowledge among practitioners engaged in online learning. It contains 187 pages of documented, peer-reviewed, empirical case studies of programs in private, public, and for-profit schools ranging from two-year to major research universities.

"The case studies in this volume represent some of the best thinking in online learning today," Tony Picciano, Professor in the Hunter College School of Education, City University of New York

	The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commissioned the studies from selected institutions that lead the industry in online learning. In the only series of its kind, the volumes provide insider perspectives on how successful programs develop quality while scaling up to meet demand. In each case study, authors explain how their colleges and universities build successful online programs by observing the five elements of quality known as the Sloan-C pillars: learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, access, faculty satisfaction and student satisfaction. Contents Introduction- Frank Mayadas, John Bourne, Janet C. Moore Part I. Learning Effectiveness Studies of Effectiveness of Learning Networks - Star Roxanne Hiltz, Yi Zhang, and Murray Turoff Part II: Cost Effectiveness Linking Quality and Cost - Tana Bishop and Claudine SchWeber Factors in ALN Cost Effectiveness at BYU - J. Olin Campbell Rethinking Cost-Benefit Models of Distance Learning - Leigh S. Estabrook