The University of Illinois Springfield is celebrating 25 years as a pioneering leader in online learning. In 1998, UIS launched its first online program with the goal of giving students an opportunity to learn in a flexible manner. At the time, UIS was one of only a few institutions that offered online education in the United States.
The University of Illinois Springfield has been named to Forbes’ Best Affordable Online Colleges list for 2023.
According to Forbes, UIS made the list because it has offered distance learning programs to students around the country for more than two decades. Forbes also noted that UIS offers a low net price per year, has a high online retention rate and offers mental health/counseling services to online students.
University of Illinois Springfield Vice Chancellor for Enrollment & Retention Management Vickie Cook has been elected to the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Board of Directors.
OLC is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences. It has approximately 800 member institutions.
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UIS subscribes to Quality Matters (QM) and has adopted a customized version of the research-based QM rubric for course quality assurance. COLRS staff who review courses are trained Quality Matters reviewers.
Individual faculty or entire programs may request to have their courses reviewed.
From December 12 to January 6, the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service (COLRS) will be providing office hours daily from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
No office hours will be held on Thursday, January 5, 2023 (staff retreat)
Twice daily office hours at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. will resume January 7.
Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables instructors to share content created in Canvas. The content can be entire courses, a page, a module, a quiz, an assignment or a discussion. Content can be shared with only others at UIS or with the entire Canvas community. Learn more about Canvas Commons.
Due to federal financial aid eligibility for students, UIS instructors must engage in regular and substantive interaction with students in online courses. The definition of distance education from the U.S. Congress and guidance on regular and substantive interaction from the U.S. Department of Education are general and discussed in detail below.
Final grade submission deadlines are listed on the academic calendar for each term.
A GOLD course is a special type of course site that is used for developing, updating, and sharing content. GOLD courses can be used to develop and update course content for a single instructor or with multiple instructors teaching the same course. GOLD courses allow content standardization across multiple sections, which may be useful for accreditation and assessment purposes. The content can be copied into course shells for each term.
