Online Student Experience

Q: Have you ever taken

an online class?

Online Faculty Experience

Q: Have you ever taught

an online course?

One Final Question …

Q: Why …

are you here today?

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Workshop Series

Who is Sloan-C?

Consortium of 470 institutions & 6,746

individuals dedicated to quality online education

Industry leader for 22years in research and

development of online learning through

publications, conferences, research and faculty

development…

Over 3,500 folks took a workshop at Sloan-C Institute last year!

Who are Sloan-C Members?

Members come from 49 states along with the District of

Columbia and the territory of Puerto Rico

International Members from 5 other countries: New

Zealand, Australia, Canada, Chile, and Israel.

Data Current January 2014

Who are we?

Sandra Coswatte (@SandraCoswatte)

Director, Sloan-C Institute

15 years teaching experience, 11 years online

6 years experience in faculty development

Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz (@hollyrae)

Instructional Consultant, Sloan-C Institute

15 years experience in educational technology

10 years experience in online education

Today’s Webinar

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Teaching online is fundamentally different.

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Let’s see those results….

TECHNOLOGY

•Learning Management Systems , Teaching Toolkit

EFFECTIVENESS

•Retention, Academic Integrity, Assessment, Support

SATISFACTION

•Faculty Workload, Student Engagement, Stakeholder Approval

Fundamental Concerns for Online Teachers

Where do you begin??

The Basics

“Online learning is not the next big thing;

it is the now big thing.” - Donna J. Abernathy

Know your format

Online Coursework Formats

• Some components online

• Instruction face to face

Web

Web Enhanced

• Significant face to face and online instruction Blended

• Completely online

• May include “live” sessions ..or not Online

Quality

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high

intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful

execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” - William A. Foster

Quality Questions

Q: What does a quality online

class mean to you?

Do students and faculty

measure quality in the

same way?

Do they want the same

thing out of the courses?

Quality Online Courses

A work in process review/revision/improvements

Continual review/revision/improvements

Beyond the basics…

Begin with expertise.

Sloan-C’s Pillars of Quality

Sloan-C’s Pillars of Quality

5 Fundamental Online

Teaching Concepts

Sloan-C 5 Pillars

Learning Learning Effectiveness

Scale Access Faculty Faculty

Satisfaction Student Student

Satisfaction

Learning Effectiveness

Learning Effectiveness Take advantage of the

learning environment

Provide learning experiences

that are quality in the modality

being used

Scale

Leverage key educational resources

while offering new

online learning opportunities to

students and faculty

Schools offer their best educational

value to learners and to achieve

capacity enrollment

Cost-effective measures and practices

Scale

Access

Access

Provide meaningful and effective access

throughout the entire student's life

cycle

• Program Selection

• Course Availability

• Appropriate Learning Resources

• Support (Academic, Financial, Student, Technical)

Faculty Satisfaction

Faculty Satisfaction

Instructors find the online teaching

experience personally rewarding and

professionally beneficial

• School Provides Support

• Opportunity for Research/Publication

• Involved in the Governance and Quality Insurance

• Institutional Reward System

• Opportunity for Continued Professional

Development

Student Satisfaction

Student Satisfaction The goal is that all students who

complete a course express

satisfaction with course rigor

and fairness, with professor

and peer interaction,

and with support services

Learning Learning Effectiveness

Scale Access Faculty Faculty

Satisfaction Student Student

Satisfaction

Q: Which is most important

to you today?

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YOU need to know

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WHAT

WORKS FOR

ME IS…

I’M

USING

THESE

TOOLS

Commit Time & Effort

Practice

Try it out Focus on a

Goal

Identify Subskills

Q: What skills

are you building?

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New to Online:

The Essentials

Most Popular Sloan-C Workshop

Experience online environment as a student

Explore critical differences between teaching

online and face-to-face

faculty and student expectations

role adjustments

course design

New To Online:

Supporting Online Learners

Identify and explore strategies to

support new online learners

Create a plan to support new online

learners in your courses

New To Online:

Quality Course Design Frameworks

Explore & discuss common quality metrics

Evaluate the quality of your course based on

the identified quality metrics and develop an

improvement plan

Strategies for Increasing Interaction

and Engagement

Discuss and evaluate strategies that help

overcome obstacles to student engagement

Develop a plan to improve

student engagement

in your online course

Sloan-C Workshops

Workshops

7 day, 3 day, and 4 hours

Over 120 workshops in 2014

Delivered with asynchronous and

synchronous components

Is your institution a Sloan-C Member? Find out at

http://sloanconsortium.org/institutional_members

4-hour Synchronous

3-day Asynchronous

7-day Asynchronous

$249 / $149 $249 / $149 $269 / $169

4 Hour Synchronous Workshops

Sunday Monday Tuesday

11:59pm ET

Registration closes

Enrollment keys

emailed

12:00pm ET

Workshop opens for

early enrollment

12:00 – 4:00pm ET ,

11:59pm ET

Participate in entire

event and turn in

final assignment for

Award of

Completion

3 Day Asynchronous Workshops

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

11:59pm ET

Registration

closes

Enrollment

keys emailed

12:00pm ET

Workshop

opens for

early

enrollment

12:00pm ET

Workshop

officially

begins

12:00pm ET

Last

moment to

enroll if you

want to earn

an Award of

Completion

5:00pm ET

Workshop

ends

7 Day Asynchronous Workshops

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

11:59pm ET

Registration

closes

Enrollment

keys emailed

12:00pm ET

Workshop

opens for

early

enrollment

12:00pm ET

Workshop

officially

begins

11:59pm ET

Last day to

enroll if you

wish to earn

an Award of

Completion

5:00pm ET

Workshop

ends

What can I expect?

Facilitators who are subject matter experts or

leaders in field

Ability to network with faculty from all over the

country (some international)

Practical opportunities to build effective online

teaching skills

Access to resources provided by facilitators and

workshop participants alike

Designed for You

Build or enhance for educators’ professional knowledge,

skills, and leadership in distance/online education and

training

Flexible, learner-centered offerings integrate core

knowledge and theory with practical, experiential-based

exercises, case studies, and discussions

Presented via the Internet and web conferencing, with

supplemental print and multi-media format

Option to enroll in workshops on a certificate or non-

certificate basis

New to Online: Learning Outcomes

Develop skills in distance education and online learning

Expand current knowledge and apply new ideas in practice

Provide grounding in the pedagogy of online teaching and

learning

Prepare participants to facilitate online, built upon Sloan-C’s

effective practices, using their current teaching or training

materials

Gain hands-on experience as a distance learner

Sloan-C Institute Track OfferingsTrack Offerings

New To Online

Online Design

Online Tools

Online Management

Online Learners

Thank You for Attending Today

For questions about any of programs, advisory

services, or conferences email us!

workshop@sloanconsortium.org

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