National Professional Outreach

Faculty and professional staff members at the University of Illinois regularly share their research and expertise via publications and presentations. In one recent year the Provost reported that more than 3/4 of the faculty members up for tenure review had publications in the area of online and distant learning.

Some 80% of the online searches conducted online are done via Google. If one searches for online learning or educational technology, UIS resources appear among the very top returns. The RSS feeds of the Online Learning Update and Educational Technology blogs are published at the Web sites of dozens of colleges, universities, associations, and related entities - they are also published in the right column of this blog! We are also well followed on Twitter and in a number of other blogs inlcuding http://recessionreality.blogspot.com/ .