The Sloan-C workshop "Improving Quality in Online Education" examines answers to these questions about learning effectiveness, faculty satisfaction and access. With facilitators and participants who are practitioners, this learning-by-doing workshop actively engages everyone in sharing knowledge to maximize student success.

The workshop begins by identifying the foremost barriers to success. Based on participants' feedback, the 5-hour workshop shows how schools have eliminated these barriers.

Working with a customized case study problem to solve in small group, round table interactions, participants use a quality framework of fully costed effective practices to determine the best ways to maximize student success.

Using the workshop template, groups draft proposals to share with the workshop and to adapt for use at their own institutions. Participants also take home a workbook that is a treasure trove of exemplars and resources.

Workshop facilitators include audience experts from an array of schools who lead the nation in designing programs to maximize student performance. In addition, Sloan-C experts share their insights and research on effective practices. Frank Mayadas, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project Director and Sloan-C President, will provide opening remarks, and John Bourne, Director of the Sloan Center for OnLine Education (SCOLE), Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College will facilitate workshop activities. Join Sloan-C in sharing your questions and your know-how with experts from across the nation in this performance based workshop.