New AUB-SLOAN Partnership

“The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating on-line education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of on-line education.”

The AUB–Sloan partnership gives AUB faculty members access to the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), a database of articles and research papers about topics related to on-line learning. These papers have been peer reviewed and highlight important practices in the field.  Faculty members can also publish their research in the journal.

Sloan-C Effective Practices
Sloan Effective Practices is a very handy collection of techniques and strategies to enhance the on-line component of courses. Effective practices can be searched through:

1. Pillar: “allows… search by the five Sloan-C pillars, the building blocks of quality on-line education—learning effectiveness, scale, access, faculty satisfaction, and student satisfaction.”

2. Context: “allows… search by perspectives (roles) in on-line learning, organizational type, or subject area domain, as well as by special cases of on-line learning (such as on-line collaboration, or large class size), and/or by subcategories within these.”

3. Technology: “allows… search by particular technology categories—audio, video, synchronous, asynchronous, mobile, virtual, and digital resources—and/or by subcategories within them.”

4. Recently Added Practices is where the most recently uploaded items can be viewed.

5. Successful experiences in teaching with technology can be shared by uploading individual examples of effective practices. 

Sloan-C Catalogue
The Sloan Catalogue allows search for on-line degrees and certificates offered by  universities which are members of the Sloan Consortium.

Survey Reports
Survey Reports provides access to published reports and surveys on-line learning.

Sloan-C Listserv
Joining the Sloan Listserv provides the opportunity to receive newsletters from Sloan-C.

Discounts on Conferences and Workshops
Sloan–C offers on-line workshops and conferences to foster successful education practices in the on-line environment. This service is available to AUB faculty members at reduced charges. 

Conference Proceedings
Sloan–C provides the chance to catch up on all missed conferences. A detailed outline of the conferences and many published papers are available under this section.

Visit the Sloan–C website at http://www.sloanconsortium.org/
To have full access to the Sloan-C resources and services, an individual account should be created at http://www.sloanconsortium.org/sloan_membership/orgtype/5:

- Under “Indicate the type of organization and name below,” select “Non-United   States Higher Education.”
- Under “Search for an organization” and next to “Organization Name,” type:   “American University of Beirut.”
- Then click on the Search button.
- At the bottom of the page, click Select next to “American University of Beirut.”
- A new window will open.  Fill in the required information and then click Submit.
- Once the registration has been submitted, a confirmation email to activate the   account will be sent to the email address provided.

Contact rs22@aub.edu.lb for any requests, questions, or suggestions about this partnership.