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VERHEARD
15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
O C T O B E R 2 8 - 30 , 2 0 0 9 O R L A N D O , F L O R I D A
As the audiences of other conferences decline in numbers, Sloan-C hit a new peak of 1,500 this year. Among the
many online educators were a growing number of entrepreneurs. So many, in fact, that online education bears
many of the trappings of an American Gold Rush. Some early pioneers have already made their fi rst lucrative
strikes, and are at work on a second. Later arrivals are also on their way to entrepreneurial success. Meanwhile,
turn the page to see what conference was in full bloom right next door.
Every single public university and ingly obvious. Students can’t write Online learning requires a certain
community college in the U.S. is as fast as teachers can talk. amount of drive and motivation
active today in online learning. In
Mark Nestor
on the part of the learner. K-12
fi ft een years, online learning has
Campus CIO
seems quite diff erent from that.
surged. Two reasons: agility and
Miami-Dade College Health Campus
But we in online higher educa-
speed of implementation of online tion should assume they’ll be
courses and degrees.
A classroom instructor may not
coming too.
Frank Mayadas feel the need to pre-design each Frank Mayadas
Outgoing Sloan-C board chair lecture, each course. Why? Outgoing Sloan-C board chair
Because he or she receives visual
Blended learning is high tech and and oral feedback from an It takes study skills and time
high touch. Since 2003 we’ve en- immediate face-to-face audience. management abilities for a
rolled 500 former IU students liv-
Stephen Laster
learner to succeed online.
ing within 40 miles of Kokomo in
CIO
I’ve been helping high school
hybrid classroom/online courses.
Harvard Business School
dropouts prepare to pass the
More than 100 have since gradu- GED exam online for four
ated with degrees.
In Europe, online learning has
years. This population needs
Fred Hakes mastered threshhold knowledge—
custom-tailored support.
Director, Division akin to “Now I get it!” In the U.S. Cathy Coleman
of Continuing Studies online learning appears to still be Program Manager
Indiana University-Kokomo “online telling.” Quinsigamond Community College
Paul Lefrere
More schools would be more
Partner
One successful instructor told
successful at online learning if
Strategic Initiatives, Inc.
me he looks at his course design
they had the initial capital to elements as little Legos.
launch it successfully.”
A well designed course is like
Take one successful model;
Asim Kandar a symphony. Learners fl ow
deconstruct it, and reassemble
New Product Director through the experience
it into another.
Colloquy immersed in the present and Stephen Laster
anticipating the future. CIO
As we worked to solve a podcast-
Stephen Laster
Harvard Business School
ing production problem we real-
CIO
ized something that was surpris-
Harvard Business School
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