Community of Scholars
Academia is the heart of American Public University System. We are a Community of Scholars who are collectively engaged in the pursuit and sharing of knowledge both within our online campus and among our peer institutions.
We are extremely proud that our commitment to quality learning is recognized by the Sloan Consortium, the leading association of institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning. This year they bestowed two of the five annual awards on APUS: The 2009 Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality Online Education and the 2009 Sloan-C Effective Practice Award. Come explore our Community of Scholars!
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Q3'09Dr. Frank McCluskey, provost, presented at the American Continuing Higher Education Council Conference in Philadelphia.
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Q3'09Dr. Jennifer Stephens, dean of assessment, co-presented at the Council for Adult Experiential Learning Conference in Chicago on the Transparency by Design initiative.
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Nov13Dr. Jim Reilly, our newly hired dean of the School of Science and Technology and former NASA astronaut, was a panel member discussing lunar programs at the Global Space Development Summit in Washington, DC.
Q3 2010
The Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) is dedicated to promoting lifelong learning and excellence in continuing higher education. As an organization of colleges, universities, and individuals, ACHE encourages professional development, research and exchange of information for its members and continuing higher education as a means of enhancing and improving society.
Dr. Frank, as a co-presenter with the Transparency by Design team, talked about how assessment is used to measure learning in the presentation, Transparency by Design: A Transformational and Innovative Approach to Providing Increased Consumer Information.
Transparency by Design (TbyD), an innovative partnership of distance learning providers, is designed to provide more complete and robust information to prospective students. This initiative emphasizes public disclosure of program-level learning outcomes and other relevant institutional information on a common Web site through a partnership with WCET. The institutions that have committed to TbyD see this pioneering effort as a means of providing increased "consumer" information while at the same time focusing institutions on continuous improvement.
For more information, please visit the following web sites:
http://www.acheinc.org
President's Forum: Transparency by Design
October 28
The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) is a national non-profit organization which creates and manages effective learning strategies for working adults through partnerships with employers higher education, the public sector, and labor.
Jennifer's presentation, as part of a team, focused on learning outcomes assessment within the Transparency by Design initiative.
Transparency by Design (TbyD), an innovative partnership of distance learning providers, is designed to provide more complete and robust information to prospective students. This initiative emphasizes public disclosure of program-level learning outcomes and other relevant institutional information on a common Web site through a partnership with WCET. The institutions that have committed to TbyD see this pioneering effort as a means of providing increased "consumer" information while at the same time focusing institutions on continuous improvement.
For more information, please visit the following web sites:
http://www.cael.org
President's Forum: Transparency by Design
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September 30
The 2nd Global Space Development Summit, organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in partnership with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Space Foundation and the Chinese Society of Astronautics, took place in Washington, D.C., November 12-13. Over the course of two days, summit participants examined critical developments on issues of space exploration and Earth observations. This event is the second of what is hoped to become an annual summit intended to focus on the future of international coordination and governance structures for space development.
For more information, please visit the following web site:
http://www.globalspacesummit.com
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