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Eric Fredericksen, Alexandra Pickett, Peter Shea State University of New York William Pelz Herkimer County Community College Karen Swan University of Albany Abstract "…100% of faculty reported that they were either satisfied or very satisfied with the SUNY Learning Network." Spring 1999 SLN Faculty Satisfaction Survey The State University of New York (SUNY) Learning Network (SLN) is the on-line instructional program created for the 64 colleges and nearly 400,000 students of SUNY. The foundation of the program is freedom from schedule and location constraints for our faculty and students. The primary goals of the SLN are to bring SUNY's diverse and high-quality instructional programs within the reach of learners everywhere, and to be the best provider of asynchronous instruction for learners in New York State and beyond. We believe that these goals cannot be achieved unless faculty receives appropriate support. This paper will examine factors that have contributed to the high level of faculty satisfaction we have achieved in the SLN. The analysis will be done on several levels. This first section will look at the SLN at a program-wide level and will provide information regarding the systemic implementation of our asynchronous learning environment. The second section examines issues that contribute to on-line teaching satisfaction from a faculty- development and course-design perspective. This section will present the evolution of the four-stage faculty development process and a seven-step course design process that was developed by SLN and comment on lessons learned. The third section presents results from the SLN Faculty Satisfaction Survey conducted in spring 1999. This section examines factors from a quantitative analysis that significantly contributes to faculty satisfaction with on-line teaching and offers recommendations for course and program design based on these factors. The fourth section e

Thought this might be of interest...SUNY Graduation statistics for every SUNY school. Empire College, which is almost entirely online, is reported to have the lowest graduation rates.

Student Satisfaction and Perceived Learning with On-line Courses: Principles and Examples from the SUNY Learning Network Eric Fredericksen, Alexandra Pickett, Peter Shea State University of New York William Pelz Herkimer County Community College http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v4n2/pdf/v4n2_fredericksen.pdf Karen Swan University of Albany

doing a demo ignore this.

iTunes U at SUNY Cortland. Course content and student produced multimedia are divided among several departments and programs.

This is the angel online learning system that we currently use as Suny Old Westbury College

Universities Team With Online Course Provider By TAMAR LEWIN "In a move that could open online classes to 1.25 million students at public institutions, a California company is forming partnerships with 10 large state university systems."

Foundation for online courses.

"Guiding questions create a knowledge-centered learning environment "

This paper examines issues of pedagogy, faculty development, student satisfaction, and reported learning in the State University of New York (SUNY) Learning Network (SLN).

SUNY retention rates

A description of SUNY Cobleskill's Saturday College, a degree-completion program that can be very helpful for working adults or student parents. (My spouse's alma mater and program.)

Binghamton University, SUNY doctoral research university for 14,600 students in beautiful upstate New York; 140 plus undergraduate and graduate degrees in arts and sciences, nursing, education and human development, management, engineering and applied science

Shea, Pickett, and Pelz (2003) describe three components to teaching presence: Instructional Design and Organization, Facilitating Discourse, and Direct Instruction.

My favorite online course was Dr. Saxton's Research & Program Evaluation. Although he's switched SUNY campuses he has obviously continued his interest in new media and online teaching and learning.

I am trying to find research (if it exists) on the academic value of online personality quizzes. This article, which appeared in several Canadian newspapers, discusses what is so compelling about this social media trend.

I am curious, can you folks read this article? I am posting the link as it appeared in the SUNY Albany library, and since we are SUNY Albany students, it should work, right? A couple of folks said so on the discussion board ...

My former Prof's, at SUNY New Patlz, paper on constructivism