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Online Learning on the West Side of the Big Pond
Burks Oakley II Associate Vice President for
Academic Affairs Director, U of I Online 31 March
2005
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Pew Internet American Life

• The Pew Internet American Life Project (PIP)
  produces reports that explore the impact of the
  Internet on families, communities, work and home,
  daily life, education, health care, and civic and
  political life.

http//www.pewinternet.org/
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Interesting data from the PIP

• Two-thirds of the American public go online
  regularly
• 81 of the 18-29 age group go online daily
• 88 of people with a college degree go online
  regularly
• 84 of Internet users look for maps and driving
  directions online
• 78 of Internet users research a product or
  service online before buying

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A typical day in early 2005

• Based on the PIP, 70 million American adults
  logged onto the Internet to
• use e-mail
• get news
• access government information
• check out health and medical information
• participate in auctions
• book travel reservations
• gamble
• seek out romantic partners
• further their education through online classes

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• Online education is possibly the biggest event
  in American intellectual life in the past 40
  years.

Gerald A. Heeger President, University of
Maryland University College
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SUNY Learning Network (SLN)
Online course enrollments
http//sln.suny.edu/
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SUNY Learning Network (SLN)
Online courses
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SUNY Learning Network (SLN)
Online degree programs
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UIS online enrollments
http//online.uis.edu/info/
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Illinois Virtual Campus

• Enrollment in online classes tops 80,000 for Fall
  2004 semester

http//www.ivc.illinois.edu/pubs/enrollment/Fall_0
4.html
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Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C)

• Purpose is to help institutions improve 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.

http//www.sloan-c.org/
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Survey conducted by Elaine Allen Jeff
Seaman Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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2003 key findings

• Over 1.6 million students took at least one
  online course during Fall 2002.
• Schools expected a 19.8 online enrollment growth
  to 1.9 million for Fall 2003.
• Eighty-one percent of all institutions offered at
  least one fully online or blended course.
• A majority of academic leaders believe that the
  learning outcomes for online education are equal
  to or superior to those of face-to-face
  instruction.

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2004 survey of online learning

• e-mail sent to Chief Academic Officers at US
  higher education degree granting institutions
  with link to web-based survey.
• Responses merged with IPEDS data for the
  institution. Integrated Postsecondary Education
  Data System (IPEDS)
• 3063 surveys sent, 1170 responses received,
  representing a 38.2 response rate.

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Data - online courses

• 81 of institutions of higher education offer at
  least one fully online or blended course.
• Complete online degree programs are offered by
  34 of the institutions.
• Among public institutions, 97 offer at least one
  online or blended course and 49 offer an online
  degree program.

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Online enrollment growth
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Publics lead the way
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Community colleges lead
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Enrollment growth expectations
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Student satisfaction
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Quality perceptions changing
-2 is inferior 0 is neutral 2 is superior
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Critical to long-term strategy
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Subset of e-learning

• Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) means
• People networks
• Communications networks
• Technology for high interaction, any time, any
  place
• This is the type of online learning being
  promoted by Sloan-C

http//www.sloan-c.org/
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Quality, scale, breadth

• Sloan-C quality framework and the five pillars
• Access
• Learning effectiveness
• Student satisfaction
• Faculty satisfaction
• Cost effectiveness

Westminster College Fulton, MO
http//www.sloan-c.org/
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Sloan-C knowledge channels

• Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)
• Annual workshops and conferences, online and f2f
• Annual volumes in the Sloan-C quality series
• Sloan-C View

http//www.sloan-c.org/
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For-profit providers

• The Apollo Group (APOL)
• University of Phoenix
• Career Education Corp. (CECO)
• American InterContinental University
• DeVry (DV)
• DeVry University, Ross University, Keller
  Graduate School of Management
• ITT Educational Services (ESI)
• ITT Technical Institutes
• Education Management Corporation (EDMC)
• The Art Institutes, Argosy University and others

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University of Phoenix Online

• 132,709 students enrolled (Nov. 2004)
• Degrees certificates
• 16 undergraduate degrees
• 29 masters degrees
• 4 doctoral degrees
• 6 certificate programs
• Net income (Apollo Group)
• 2002 - 7,989,000
• 2003 - 15,308,000
• 2004 - 139,974,000

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Stock performance
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Future trends in e-learning

• Blogs
• Wikis
• RSS
• E-portfolios
• Wireless
• Real-time web conferencing
• Institutional collaboration
• Blended learning

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Real-time collaboration

• University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) and
  Chicago State University (CSU)
• CSU 94 minority enrollment, urban
• UIS 12 minority enrollment, rural
• Synchronous group projects done online using
  Elluminate Live!
• Audio, whiteboard, shared application, text chat

http//www.elluminate.com/
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Online Learning Update

• Online Learning Update
• A blog published by Prof. Ray Schroeder, of the
  University of Illinois at Springfield
• A great way to keep up with the field of online
  learning news and research
• Links to 3 new articles by 6 am central time
  (USA) 365 days each year

http//people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogge
r.html
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Online Learning Update

• Since 2001, more than 4,500 postings
• Via RSS syndication, integrated daily at Sloan-C,
  Univ. of Auckland, University of Illinois Online,
  and many more sites
• Linked via more than 1,200 sites
• International readership
• More information at
• http//people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/ol
  uinfo.htm

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In conclusion, a beginning

• The greatest real thrill that life offers is to
  create, to construct, to develop something
  useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay
  tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit
  that creates our jobs. There has to be this
  pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the
  ambition to overcome the obstacles that always
  develop when one tries to do something
  worthwhile, especially when it is new and
  different.
• Alfred P. Sloan

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Online Learning on the West Side of the Big Pond
Burks Oakley II E-mail oakley_at_uillinois.edu Web
http//www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/