Sorensen Johnson & Johnson Luther Tai Consolidated

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Online LearningThreat or Opportunity?
Society for Scholarly PublishingMay 30,
2008Boston, MA
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Who Goes to College Online?

• Mid-career professionals require
• skills enhancement
• Cant go to campus because
• of heavy work and travel
• Family obligations of two-career parents

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Why Schools Do it

• NATIONAL AND GLOBAL
• VISIBILITY, STUDENT ACCESS
• EXTENDS BRAND
• THE WAY WORK IS DONE
• NEW REVENUE STREAM
• IF YOU DONT, OTHERS WILL

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5 Pillars of Online Education

• 1 Learning Effectiveness
• Quality of online learning is comparable
• to quality of traditional programs
• 2 Cost Effectiveness and Institutional Commitment
  
• Your school continuously improves services while
  reducing cost
• 3 Access
• Students who wish to learn online have
• opportunity and can achieve success
• 4 Faculty Satisfaction
• Faculty achieves success with teaching online,
• citing appreciation and happiness
• 5 Student Satisfaction
• Your students achieve success in learning online
  
• and are typically pleased with their experience

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How Many Are Online?2006 Sloan Data

• 3.5 million
• COLLEGE STUDENTS TAKE AT LEAST ONE COURSE
• 9.7 growth
• COMPARED WITH 1.5 OVERALL
• 20 online
• OF ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS, 20 ARE ONLINE

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Growing Online 2006 Sloan Data
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How its Done

• Synchronous
• Asynchronous
• Interactive
• Threaded discussions
• White Boards
• Web conferencing
• Podcasting
• Videocasting
• Virtual teaming
• Remote labs
• Online and print textbooks
• Online library access

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Engaging Online Faculty

• Quality online training
• Online faculty interaction
• Honor best practices
• Compensate generously
• Share IP rights
• Pay royalties

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Compensating Faculty

• Who owns intellectual property?
• Shared with faculty
• How are faculty compensated?
• For development and separately for instruction
• Who teaches online?
• Voluntary permanent and adjunct faculty

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WebCampus by the Numbers

• Nearly 17,000 enrollments
• 35 million in tuition revenue
• More than 160 online faculty
• Students in 47 states and 44 countries
• 17 masters degrees and an MBA
• 37 graduate certificates
• 160 online courses

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WebCampus Growing
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Where Are They in the US?
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WebCampus Revenue Growth
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Whos on the Board?

• Ronald Schlosser
• Formerly of Thomson
• Karan Sorensen
• Johnson Johnson
• Luther Tai
• Consolidated Edison
• Martin Tuchman
• Interpool
• Peter Wiesner
• IEEE
• Kee Meng Yeo
• Amway

• Eric Fredericksen
• University of Rochester
• Katherine Hegmann
• IBM
• Phillip Long
• MIT
• Rebecca Lyons
• Johnson Johnson
• Ron Perkinson
• Putera Sampoerna Foundation
• Patricia Sabosik
• Gartner Group

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WebCampus Honors
Sloan-C Prize  2003 Best Online University
 2007 Best Online Program (China)
USDLA 21st Century Prize Best Online Graduate
School 2005 and 2008
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Robert UbellExecutive Director, Institute for
the Advanced Study of Online Learningand
Professional EducationStevens Institute of
Technology201-216-5084rubell_at_stevens.edu