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Online Learners – What’s Important?

This will be cross-posted at my e-Learning blog. I have been analyzing some of the data (again) from the 2008 PSOL survey. This is the fourth year that we have used this Noel-Levitz survey at Lake Superior College. The embedded slides explain a bit more about the survey, including the four sets of data that [...]

Student Satisfaction: Online vs. On-ground

These slides show the comparisons between our 2008 PSOL results and the 2008 SSI (student Satisfaction Inventory) results. There are eleven questions that match up between the two surveys, including some that we added for that very purpose.
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To clarify: here are the questions that were compared from the two groups.

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This [...]

Desire2Learn Scores High in Reliability

This is cross-posted from my e-learning blog: Desire2Blog
The chart below shows the results over the past three years to the following statement:
The online course delivery platform (Desire2Learn or D2L) is reliable. (click photo to enlarge)

The PSOL is the main instrument that we use to gather information from students about the online programs and services that [...]

2008 PSOL Results

The results from the PSOL were waiting for me in my inbox when I returned from vacation on Sunday. I haven’t been able to do a full analysis just yet, but the preliminary look is very encouraging. I will be making several posts to this blog over the next couple of months detailing what we’ve [...]

Survey Incentives

We expect to receive our 2008 PSOL results any day now. This will be our fourth year of using the same instrument to gather data about importance and satisfaction for our online offerings and services. This year we had a 23% response rate with 458 students submitting the survey out of the pool of 2,012 [...]

Fourth PSOL Dataset Coming Soon

Once again, Minnesota Online will be sponsoring the use of the PSOL for all interested schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. LSC will be participating again this year after taking last year off. The survey will be available to students in February and we will likely have the results in the latter part [...]