APUS to be honored for online education

APUS to be honored for online education

The American Public University System (APUS) is set to receive the 2009 Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality Online Education awarded annually by the Sloan Consortium at its international conference.

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is a non-profit organization working to integrate online instruction into the mainstream of higher education.

Its award recognizes the institution that best demonstrates the commitment to improving the quality of online education through the application of the Sloan-C Quality Pillars.

These include access, learning effectiveness, scale, student satisfaction and faculty satisfaction.

"APUS has designed and implemented a sound and effective data-driven approach to managing all aspects of the learning [process] in a manner that is exemplary of the world's best online educational practices," says Dr. Burks Oakley III of Sloan-C.

In explaining its approach Dr. Frank McCluskey, Provost of APUS, said that "each day we utilize our data warehouse, graphical dashboards, standard statistical measures, semantic analysis engines and other tools to help us analyze, manage and improve student learning."

APUS is a regionally and nationally accredited online institution of higher education which operates through American Public University and American Military University educating 53,000 adult learners via its online degree program offerings.