{"id":16992,"date":"2011-03-24T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=16992"},"modified":"2011-03-24T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:25:12","slug":"comparing-online-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/03\/24\/comparing-online-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing online programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/03\/24\/consortium_creates_tool_to_compare_quality_of_online_college_programs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Comparing online programs<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>Much of the debate about online  higher education turns on comparing online courses to face-to-face ones.  But with colleges of every type increasingly venturing into the fray of  online teaching regardless, some have turned toward the practical  question of comparing online programs with other online programs.<\/p>\n<p>This, too, has been tricky. Kaye Shelton found this out when she was researching her 2005 book, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/An-Administrators-Guide-to-Online-Education\/Kaye-Shelton\/e\/9781593114244\" target=\"_blank\"><em>An Administrator&#8217;s Guide to Online Education<\/em><\/a>, which she co-authored with George Saltsman, an educational technologist at Abilene Christian University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came to the chapter on quality, I just ended up chucking it,\u201d  says Shelton, now dean of online education at Dallas Baptist  University. While attention to online programs as a recruitment  battleground was growing, she says, the literature on how to compare  quality was just too thin.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with help from the nonprofit Sloan  Consortium (Sloan-C) and dozens of veteran online education  administrators, Shelton has developed <strong>a <a href=\"http:\/\/sloanconsortium.org\/effective_practices\/quality-scorecard-administration-online-education-programs\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cquality scorecard\u201d<\/a> <\/strong>that she hopes will serve as a standardized measure for comparing any  type of fully online college program, regardless of discipline. \u201cI\u2019m  hoping that it will become an industry standard,\u201d Shelton says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The scorecard has <a href=\"http:\/\/sloanconsortium.org\/quality_scoreboard_online_program\" target=\"_blank\">70 metrics<\/a>, <\/strong> developed over six months by a panel of 43 long-serving online  administrators representing colleges of various classifications,  including several for-profit institutions. It builds on the Institute  for Higher Education\u2019s \u201cBenchmarks for Success in Internet-Based  Distance Education,\u201d which was published in 2000 and outlines 24  metrics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing online programs &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich Much of the debate about online higher education turns on comparing online courses to face-to-face ones. But with colleges of every type increasingly venturing into the fray of online teaching regardless, some have turned toward the practical question of comparing online programs with other online programs. 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