- Cost Effectiveness & Institutional Sustainability
- Improving the Breadth and Quality of Access
- The Faculty Experience Online: Rewards, Challenges, and Emerging Issues
- Learning and Instruction: Changing Paradigms, New Challenges, and
- Learner Satisfaction: Next Generation Evaluation and Innovations in Services
This year marks a significant milestone in the evolution of online learning. Over the past decade the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, through the leadership of Dr. Frank Mayadas and Dr. Ralph Gomory, has stimulated institutional experimentation and, in the process, has created a new professional community that is now guiding the continued growth and maturation of ALN from an innovation to a transformation in how educational institutions use technology to create access and to serve students.
Asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) are helping to transform education and training from site-based, time-bound experiences to anytime-anywhere online learning environments. By connecting learners with each other, with their instructors, and with a wide range of resources, ALNs allow a high degree of interaction and collaboration.
This tenth anniversary conference is dedicated to the spirit of innovation that has marked the contributions of the Sloan Foundation and its leadership over the past decade.
The conference is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in conjunction with The University of Central Florida, The Pennsylvania State University, the Sloan Center for OnLine Education (SCOLE) at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Babson College, and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC).
Click here for a graphic of the Sloan-C Ten Year Timeline. |
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