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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
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University of Illinois

• One university with 3 campuses
• Chicago
• Springfield
• Urbana-Champaign

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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