Press Release
Sloan-C Honors Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning
Needham, MA, October 2005 -- The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more than 1,000 institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, will present its 2005 awards at the 10 th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: The Power of Online Learning, Mobilizing to Expand Community, in Orlando, Florida, November 17, 2005.
Online learning has greatly progressed since 1992 when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation began giving grants to institutions for online learning initiatives. “Quality 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 as before, exceptional, and we honor them for demonstrating exceptional leadership in advancing online education along these dimensions."
2005 Sloan C Excellence in Online Teaching & Learning Award Winners
Excellence in Faculty Development for Online Teaching
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Online Teaching Institute
Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Teaching & Learning Programming
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Online Education Program Excellence in Online Teaching
Joan Cannon, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual
Charles Dziuban, University of Central Florida
Most Outstanding Online Teaching & Learning Program
University of Maryland University College, MBA Program
The Sloan-C Awards Selection Committee for 2005 was comprised of Judith S. Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation; Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Distinguished Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology (2004 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual); John V. Lombardi, President, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Joseph McDonald, President, Salish-Kootenai College; William Messner, President, Holyoke Community College; Burks Oakley II, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois (2003 Award for Most outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching & Learning by an Individual); Gerardo de los Santos, President, League for Innovation in the Community College; Ray Schroeder, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Springfield (2002 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual); Eric E. Fredericksen, Eric E. Fredericksen, Associate Vice Provost, University of Rochester, 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
Associate Vice Provost
& Director, Academic Technology Services
Information Technology Services
University of Rochester
220 Morey Hall
Rochester, New York 14627
t - 585.273.1714
e - eric.fredericksen@rochester.edu
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