Sloan-C
Sloan Consortium
http://sloanconsortium.org/
Sloan-C is a “leadership” organization that is devoted to integrating online methods into higher ed. They are aimed at informing institutions at the enterprise level, both academic “for” and “not for” profit ventures. It is not as faculty-centric as Merlot although they share conference space and seem to operate as sister organizations. Their main emphasis centers on their “effective practices”. They are a leading group for understanding the administrative perspective of technology in education.
They have a raft of good studies that are worth reference. One of which is a yearly funded publication on the state of online learning in the U.S. Note the two linked below.
- Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf
Restricted to distance ed only or those courses with over 80% of content delivered online. Good number resource and super graphs.
- Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/learning_on_demand_sr2010
Stats of DE , many nice graphs and numbers about DE growth
Survey of Presidents and Chancellors 2009