J. Bourne, D. Harris & F. Mayadas. Online Engineering Education: Learning Anywhere, Anytime. Originally published in the Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1): 131-146, January 2005.
D. Anderson & C. Haddad. Gender, Voice and Learning in Online Course Environments.
K.B. Kelley & K. Bonner. Digital Text, Distance Education and Academic Dishonesty: Faculty and Administrator Perceptions and Responses
R. Mason & C. Pegler. A Learning Object Success Story
K.A. Meyer. The Ebb and Flow of Online Discussions: What Bloom Can Tell Us About Our Students’ Conversations
C.L. Finnegan, H. Xu, & L.V. Morris. Roles of Faculty in Teaching Asynchronous Undergraduate Courses
S.G. Reasons, K. Valadares & M. Slavkin. Questioning the Hybrid Model: Student Outcomes in Different Course Formats
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What is the Sloan-C Quality Framework?
“In the business of education—to improve learning while achieving capacity enrollment—continuous quality improvement (CQI) helps people to set goals, identify resources and strategies, and measure progress towards the institution’s ideal vision of its distinctive purpose” (Elements of Quality, 2002, p.5). Thus, as in the brief version of the quality framework link below, the goals of each of the five pillars are presented in CQI terms for measuring continuously improving learning, value (for institutions and for learners), access, and faculty and student satisfaction. These inter-active components focus on improving people networks, practices, achievement and growth. Adaptable to a clearly articulated vision of the ideal learning environment according to the institution’s distinctive mission, and keeping in mind that the framework is intended as a flexible work in progress, for each of the pillars, the framework includes descriptions and ideals (see more information at http://www.sloan-c.org/effective and in a pdf, “The Sloan Consortium Quality Framework and the Five Pillars” at http://sloan-c.org
/resources/index.asp.

Click here for a brief version of the Quality Framework.