WISE Faculty Present at Sloan-C
For Immediate Release
Contact: Katie Schisa
WISE Director
support@wiseeducation.org
January 30, 2008
Faculty from two WISE member schools presented at the 13th
Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) International Conference on Asynchronous Learning
Networks, at the Caribe Royale Hotel and Conference
Center, November 7-9, 2007, in Orlando, Florida.
On Thursday, November 8, Bruce Kingma from the School of
Information Studies at Syracuse University and Chris Tomer from the University
of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences discussed the economics of learning consortia in a session titled, “WISE
Economics: How to Build a Sustainable Consortium.” The Web-based Information Science
Education (WISE) consortium is entering its third year of operation proving the
economic model on which it is built to be sustainable, adjustable and scalable.
This session examined the economics of the sustainable online consortium.
On Friday, November 9, Chris Tomer presented a session
titled, “Social Computing: Cost-Effective Technologies for Online Education.”
The session examined the ways in which social computing enriches the online education
environment, focusing largely on “Web 2.0” technologies.
The Sloan Consortium’s annual conference explores the issues
related to asynchronous learning and teaching. The 2007 Conference proceedings are available to all on the Sloan-C website.
The Sloan Consortium was developed with support from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to encourage institutions of learning to “Continually
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.” More information about Sloan-C is available on
the consortium’s website.