Elise A. Gurgevich. Outreach and Cooperative Extension, The Pennsylvania State University
Drew Hyman, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
Theodore R. Alter, Outreach and Cooperative Extension, The Pennsylvania State University
On March 24, 1998, a small group of faculty and administrators at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) formed a learning community to engage in a deliberative dialogue about recognizing and documenting outreach scholarship in the university. We chose UniSCOPE, University Scholarship and Criteria for Outreach and Performance Evaluation, as the...
William L. Harkness, Professor, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
Jill L. Lane, Research Associate/Program Manager, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Penn State University
John T. Harwood, Senior Director, Teaching and Learning with Technology, Penn State University
Dissatisfaction with teaching a high enrollment introductory statistics course led to efforts to restructure the course to remedy the perceived problems, including lack of student participation, an excessive drain on departmental resources, failure to take into account wide differences in student learning styles, an inability of students to apply statistics...
Mary Ann Koory, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley Extension Online
The same course in both an online and on-campus environment makes for an extended experimental comparison of learning outcomes, while controlling for two important variables: the instructor and the content of the course Students learn course content through four kinds of encounters—alone, one-to-one, one-to many, and many-to many. The online version...
Dr. David Sachs, School of Computer Science & Information Systems, Pace University
Professor Nancy Hale, School of Computer Science & Information Systems, Pace University
In 1999, Pace University was awarded a $1,000,000, three-year FIPSE Learning Anytime Anywhere Program (LAAP) Grant. The grant focuses on three areas: online testing, enhanced student support services, and mentoring....
Boria Sax, Ph.D., Director of Online Academic Services, Mercy College
Mercy College has encouraged students to take a more active role in their education through the use of online teaching assistants or “course wizards.” The duties of wizards include tutoring...
Carol Scarafiotti, Dean of Instruction, Rio Salado College
Rio Salado College, headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, is nationally recognized as a role model for innovation and excellence in online education and as the “college of choice” for adults who...
Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus and Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois at Springfield
Those in the field of ALN are confronted with the challenge of keeping up with the rapidly evolving processes, technologies, environments and current findings of the field. As director of...
Peter J. Shea, State University of New York, SUNY Learning Network
Alexandra M. Pickett, State University of New York, SUNY Learning Network
William E. Pelz, State University of New York, SUNY Learning Network
This paper is a follow-up study to a preliminary investigation of teaching presence in the State University of New York Learning Network (SLN) [1]. In the present study we review...
Michael Lindeman, Computer Assisted Instruction Specialist, Illinois Online Network, University of Illinois
Iris K. Stovall, Director, Illinois Online Network, University of Illinois
The Illinois Online Network (ION) is a faculty development partnership between all forty-eight community colleges in the state of Illinois and the University of Illinois. The goals of the ION program are to help faculty to develop and deliver courses in a completely online format, and also to produce online...
Joseph W. York, PhD, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Gerald Stapleton, MS, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Leslie J. Sandlow, MD, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
To meet institutional requirements for resident education in a core curriculum, the UIC College of Medicine implemented an online educational program called the UIC Online Core Curriculum. The UIC residency is composed of 1,000 physicians in training in 60 programs at 18 training sites. Its size and distribution create substantial...
