1. Creating Online Content and Instruction for e-Learning American Accounting Association National Meeting - CPE August 11, 2001 Steve Orpurt and Doug Stein UNext Inc.

2. SM 2 Overview  Why are you here?  What is UNext?  What is our e-learning approach?  What are three examples of UNext courses?  What does the future hold?  What have we missed?

3. SM 3 Why are you here?  Beginning to develop course content or instruct online for the first time –Offering fully online courses –Converting certain course components to an online format  Hoping to improve your online content creation and instruction skills  Advising your colleagues, departments, and/or colleges in online content creation and instruction  And a multitude of other personal and professional reasons!

4. SM 4 What is UNext? The Idea… …An Investment in Knowledge Pays the Best Return

5. SM 5 Investing in Human Capital  Gary Becker and others estimate that roughly 70% of a nation’s wealth today is in the form of human capital rather than physical capital.  The pecuniary returns to knowledge, education and skill are very high in the United States and even higher outside the most developed countries.