Sloan-C Honors Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Needham, MA, November, 2004 -- The
Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more than 900 institutions and
organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, will present its
2004 awards at the 10h Sloan-C International Conference on Online
Learning: The
Power of Online Learning, from Innovation to the Mainstream, in Orlando,
Florida, November 12, 2004.
Online learning has greatly progressed since 1992 when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation began giving grants to institutions for online learning initiatives. “The field of online education continues to show vigor and strength. Every year we see advances in the important matters of quality, scale and breadth within this still fledgling community” says Frank Mayadas, President of Sloan-C. "The individuals and institutions honored this year are recognized for showing exceptional leadership in advancing online education along these dimensions."
2004 Awardees for Excellence in Online Teaching And Learning
University of Wisconsin Master of Engineering in Professional Practice
2004 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Online Teaching & Learning Program
eArmyU
2004 Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Teaching & Learning Programming
University of Nebraska Summer Institute for Online Teaching
2004 Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Online Teaching & Learning Faculty Development
Jason Scorza, Fairleigh Dickinson University
2004 Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Online Teaching
Starr Roxanne Hiltz, New Jersey Institute of Technology
2004 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual
The Sloan-C Awards Selection Committee for 2004 was comprised of Judith S. Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation; John V. Lombardi, President, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Joseph McDonald, President, Salish-Kootenai College; Sidney A. McPhee, President, Middle Tennessee State University; William Messner, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin Colleges; Diana Oblinger, Vice-President, EDUCAUSE. Eric E. Fredericksen, Director of Distributed Learning Services, Cornell University served as the non-voting committee chair. Details about the awards are available at http://www.sloan-c.org/aboutus/awards.asp.
The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.
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Sloan-C Contact:
Eric E. Fredericksen
Director, Distributed Learning Services
Cornell Information Technologies
Cornell University
118 Computing and Communications Center
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-9883
eef22@cornell.edu
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