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1
University of Illinois Online An Update
Prof. Burks Oakley II Associate Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Director,
University of Illinois Online University of
Illinois 31 July 2002
2
University of Illinois
  • One university with 3 campuses
  • Chicago
  • Springfield
  • Urbana-Champaign

3
Sloan Proposal Oct. 1998
  • The stated goal of UI-OnLine is to have at least
    10,000 annual enrollments in online ALN courses
    during the 2001-02 academic year.
  • Ten thousand annual course enrollments would
    represent a dramatic increase in the number of
    students served by the University.
  • we believe that this goal is indeed
    attainable.

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University of Illinois Online
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University of Illinois Online
  • There were gt12,000 online enrollments during the
    2001-02 academic year.
  • The U of I Online catalog now lists 32 different
    online certificate and degree programs and 413
    different online courses.

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University of Illinois Online
  • As a result of an enhanced marketing effort, the
    monthly traffic visiting the U of I Online
    website now averages almost 30,000 visits per
    month.
  • Comparing June 2002 with June 2001, the unique
    visitors increased by 196 and the referrals
    from search engines (such as Google) increased by
    330.

7
Marketing Campaign
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University of Illinois Online
  • Forbes.com named the U of I Online website as one
    of its choices for Best of the Web in the
    Higher Education category in the summer of 2002.

9
Urbana Campus
  • Diverse online offerings, including 7 masters
    degree programs and 9 certificate programs

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Urbana Campus
  • The LEEP program (an online masters degree
    program in Library and Information Science) was
    chosen as the Most Outstanding ALN Program by
    the Sloan Consortium in an international
    competition in November 2001.
  • As of August 2002, 236 students will have earned
    their masters degrees through the LEEP program.
    There will be 213 continuing LEEP students
    enrolled in online courses during the Fall 2002
    semester.

11
LEEP Program
  • Students from 41 states and 10 foreign countries
    have enrolled in the LEEP program since its
    inception in the fall of 1996. Sixty-three
    students have been from just 4 states California
    (20), Oregon (19), Colorado (13), and Alaska
    (11).
  • The Committee on Extended Education and External
    Degrees (CEEED) of the Graduate College just
    completed a very favorable 5-year review of the
    LEEP program, finding high levels of satisfaction
    among faculty, current students, and graduates.

12
CTER Program
  • The UIUC College of Education offers a Master of
    Education degree in Curriculum, Technology, and
    Education Reform (CTER).
  • Target audience is K-12 teachers.
  • Three cohorts of students in the CTER program
    have now graduated, each having a retention of
    100.

13
Fire Service Institute
  • The Illinois Fire Service Institute offers the
    Fire Fighter II certificate online.
  • This online program, which is unique among all
    fire training academies in the country, now
    provides access to the critical initial
    certification level for hundreds of firefighters
    in Illinois who otherwise would not have access
    to traditional firefighter academy courses.

14
Veterinary Education Online
  • Veterinarians now can keep up with fast-changing
    advances in animal care through this new online
    program.
  • The program will eventually include courses in
    topics such as pain management, dentistry,
    ophthalmology, behavior, business, nutrition,
    imaging, exotic pets, emerging diseases, and
    public health.

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Evaluation ONline (EON)
  • A web-based student rating system.
  • More flexible than the traditional paper-based
    system.
  • Faculty can log onto the EON system and create
    mid-semester and end-of-semester evaluation forms
    for their students to complete.

http//www.oir.uiuc.edu/dme/eon/
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Evaluation ONline (EON)
  • Faculty have immediate access to their evaluation
    results via the web.
  • Additionally, instructors can further analyze the
    overall results to the rated items by demographic
    variables (i.e., break down the results according
    to class rank, gender, etc.).

17
Chicago Campus
  • The UIC campus has experienced very high
    enrollments in its online programs, with more
    than 7,450 enrollments in credit and non-credit
    programs during the 2001-02 academic year.

18
Dept. of Medical Education
  • More than 3,800 residents from various medical
    schools and hospitals are enrolled in the online
    Graduate Medical Education Core Curriculum.
  • In addition to residents from UIC who are
    enrolled in this online program, 9 local and 9
    out-of-state institutions have contracted with
    the DME to present the program to their medical
    residents.

19
Dept. of Medical Education
  • The DME is offering an online program of
    continuing medical education to 15 physicians in
    rural Illinois.
  • The most recent topics covered in this program,
    which is termed Specialty Needs for Practicing
    Generalists, were Osteoporosis and Colon Cancer.

20
Dept. of Medical Education
  • The Department of Medical Education also offers
    the Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE)
    degree online, which has enrolled students from
    Illinois, the U.S.A, and 10 foreign countries.

21
Great Cities Institute
  • The Great Cities Institute offers an online
    certificate in Non-Profit Management (CNM
    Online), which is designed for the managers of
    non-profit agencies.
  • Since October 2000, this program has had 425
    enrollments in online courses from 155
    participants representing 21 states and two
    foreign countries (Italy and Venezuela).

22
Great Cities Institute
  • Ten community leaders from Chicagos North
    Lawndale neighborhood completed a special version
    of CNM Online last month.
  • The Lawndale Community Cohort provided non-profit
    leaders working in the same community an
    opportunity to integrate individual,
    organizational and community capacity-building
    efforts into a single learning process.

23
Public Health
  • In response to recent bio-terrorism threats and
    the re-emergence of communicable diseases, there
    is a growing need for well-trained informatics
    professionals who can access, retrieve, generate
    and disseminate relevant health information for
    rapid decision making.

24
Public Health
  • The School of Public Health has just begun to
    offer an online Master of Public Health degree
    program, with an emphasis in Public Health
    Informatics. The first cohort of students will
    begin this online program in August 2002.

25
Engineering
  • Richard Hill and Novellus Systems made a major
    gift to support efforts to produce and distribute
    introductory engineering courses on the Internet
    for use by all public high schools in Chicago.
  • The Internet-Based Learning Modules Initiative
    will encourage students to pursue engineering or
    the natural sciences as a college major.

26
Springfield Campus
  • During the 2001-02 academic year, there were
    2,411 enrollments in online courses at UIS, an
    increase of over 50 from the previous academic
    year.

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Springfield Campus

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UIS Online
  • Enrollments in online classes for the Summer 2002
    semester were up 80 from the previous summer
    term.
  • A total of 9,206 credit hours of online courses
    were taught at UIS during the 2001-02 academic
    year, generating more than 1,000,000 in tuition
    and almost 140,000 in technology fees.

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UIS Online
  • During the Spring 2002 semester, enrollment in
    online courses accounted for almost 13 of the
    total course enrollments for the campus.
  • Retention in online courses for the Spring 2002
    semester was 96 (equivalent to on-campus
    retention).

30
UIS Online
  • The UIS campus now offers 111 different online
    courses, two online BA degree completion programs
    (Liberal Studies, English), and two online
    masters degrees (MIS and Master Teaching and
    Leadership).
  • UIS just received a 500,000 grant from the
    Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop 6 new
    online degree programs during the next 3 years.

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MTL Program
  • An online M.A. degree in Master Teaching and
    Leadership (MTL).
  • This degree addresses the needs of in-service
    teachers throughout Illinois and beyond who wish
    to assume leadership roles within their schools
    or districts.
  • It also serves as a structured aid for preparing
    for the Master Teaching National Board
    Certification.

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MTL Program
  • The MTL program has grown rapidly over the past
    two years to enroll more than 150 individuals,
    located across the state of Illinois and as far
    away as Japan and Holland.
  • The program has a waiting list of dozens of
    qualified students who have applied to enter the
    program, but for whom there currently no spaces.

33
Illinois Virtual Campus
  • Over 46,000 enrollments in online classes during
    the 2000-01 academic year

http//www.ivc.illinois.edu/
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Illinois Virtual Campus

Enrollments in Internet Courses at Illinois
Colleges and Universities during the Fall Term in
1999, 2000, and 2001
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University of Illinois Online An Update
  • Burks Oakley II
  • web http//www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/
  • e-mail oakley_at_uillinois.edu
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