Sloan’s 5 Pillars of Quality Online Education by Justin Marquis, PhD

 

The Sloan Consortium is a professional leadership organization dedicated to helping online learning move into the mainstream of higher education. As part of this mission they have published numerous effective practices for online education including their 5 Pillars of Quality Online Education. <Read More>

The 5 Pillars and Quality Framework by Janet Moore – This overview introduces the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), explains its quality framework for guiding
quality and sharing effective practices, and suggests directions for research and development.

In more general terms, for each of the pillars, the statements below describe an ideal environment:

Quality Principles	For Higher Education	For Corporations
	(Moore 2002)	(Oblinger, 2003)
Learning Effectiveness	Learning effectiveness,new knowledge, applied theory,continuous feedback from stakeholders	Productivity, improved operations
Cost Effectiveness	Cost effectiveness, brand recognition, scalability, public service and influence, prestige, funding	Cost savings, brand, market capture
Access	Wider access including international communities, greater research and development opportunities, faster response to new fields of study, capacity enrollment	Market growth, distributed team work
Faculty (Employee) Satisfaction	New populations of students and colleagues, greater satisfaction with teaching and learning	Competition, competitive intelligence, understanding
Student (Customer) Satisfaction	Learner and teacher satisfaction and loyalty; career opportunities including OJT, internships, and mentorships	Recruitment and retention

For more information, see the article from what-when-how regarding The Sloan Consortium and the Quality Framework.