Open AccessInstructor Attitudes within the SCALE Efficiency Projects
Author(s) -
Lanny Arvan,
Diane Musumeci
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
online learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2472-5749
pISSN - 2472-5730
DOI - 10.24059/olj.v4i3.1894
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , scale (ratio) , principal (computer security) , asynchronous communication , mathematics education , engineering management , graduate students , medical education , psychology , engineering , computer science , pedagogy , medicine , geography , artificial intelligence , operating system , telecommunications , cartography
This paper presents the results of interviews with the principal investigators of the current Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments (SCALE) Efficiency Projects. There are six such projects: Spanish, Microbiology, Economics, Math, Chemistry, and Physics. The paper reviews each project individually, summarizes the results, and then discusses some common lessons learned as well as some still open issues. The paper considers satisfaction both from the perspective of the course director/designer and from the perspective of other instructors and graduate teaching assistants. Theevidence appears to show that all of these groups are satisfied with ALN, relative to the prior situation. Nonetheless, it is not clear whether these results would translate to other high enrollment courses.