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A letter from the editors of the Sloan-C View
This issue welcomes the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) to Sloan-C membership, provides an overview of its work and resources you can use.
Thanks to Sally Johnstone and colleagues at WCET for its leadership in developing online quality, cost effectiveness, access and faculty and student services. Its focus complements the Sloan Consortium mission and we welcome WCET to membership.
- In “Profiling WCET: A History of Looking to the Future” Sally M. Johnstone, WCET Executive Director, gives WCET’s history and introduces current projects.
- In “Helping Institutions Provide Better Student Services Online,” Patricia A. Shea, WCET Assistant Director, provides an overview of the WCET audit service.
- WCET provides an array of useful resources, including:
- A Methodology for Calculating Course Delivery Costs
- A Framework for the Evaluation of Online Courses
- Best Practices in Online Student Services
- Defining Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Principles of Good Practice for Electronically Delivered Programs
- Websites of interest
- Reviews of publications and reports
- In “Hot off the Blog,” Ray Schroeder lists items reflecting Sally Johnstone and WCET’s leadership in a wide range of areas of online learning and accreditation.
- Upcoming online workshops are opportunities to learn and to network with colleagues worldwide. Sign up here to be notified of new events, and for more information, and to register, visit Sloan-C Online Events.
- Time to plan your attendance at the 11th ALN Conference: The Power of Online Learning: Mobilizing to Expand Community, in Orlando, Florida, November 17–19, 2005. Remember, premium members receive discounts on conference attendance.
- Annual awards will be conferred at the Conference. For information about award nominations and applications, please visit http://www.sloan-c.org/aboutus/awards.asp.
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WCET’s 17th Annual Conference E-Learning E-Llusions Triumphs: Re-imagining the Academic Ecosystem
Date: November 2-5, 2005
Location: Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, New Orleans, LA
URL: http://conference.wcet.info/2005/
In response to the increasing demands on higher education, institutions are finding creative ways to use e-Learning and other technology-supported services. Can some of the best practices from institutions around the world inspire a new image for higher education in a global economy? Can we develop a cohesive vision for a new academic ecosystem that incorporates what we have discovered about e-learning, both from our past errors and “e-llusions” and our current successes in policy, pedagogy, and services? WCET’s 17th annual conference will address just these issues. The program features more than 200 speakers covering the latest trends and most innovative thinking in e-learning policies, practices, and services across six topic strands: Beyond the Institution, Emerging Technologies, Faculty Focus, Institutional Level, International, and Student Focus. Join us…and re-imagine the academic ecosystem!
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page. And, to contribute in kind, please share your effective practices with the higher education online community in the Sloan-C effective practices collection.
We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you online,
… for the Sloan Consortium
Frank Mayadas, John Bourne and Janet Moore
The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve the quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.
You are welcome to join Sloan-C:
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