Press Release
Sloan-C Honors Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning
Needham, MA, October 2007 -- The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more than 1,200 institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, will present its 2007 awards at the 13th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: The Power of Online Learning: Making a Difference, in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2007.
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."
2007 Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning Award Winners
Excellence in Online Teaching
Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Sierra College
Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual
Meg Benke, SUNY Empire State College
Excellence in Faculty Development for Online Teaching
The Quality Matters Program, Maryland Online
Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Teaching & Learning Programming
University of Illinois at Springfield
Most Outstanding Online Teaching & Learning Program
AS Veterinary Technology Distance Program, St. Petersburg College
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The Stevens China Program. Stevens Institute of Technology
2007 Sloan-C Effective Practice Awards
Miami University: Using Quality Matters to Guide Online Course Development
West Virginia University, University of North Carolina Charlotte, and Virginia Tech; Asynchronous Audio Feedback to Enhance Teaching Presence and Students’ Sense of Community
The Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning Awards Selection Committee for 2007 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); Charles Dziuban, Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (2005 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching Learning by an Individual); Carmen Gonzales, Vice Provost New Mexico State University; John V. Lombardi, President, Louisiana State University System; Stella Perez, Vice-President of Operations and Technology Programs for the League for Innovation in the Community College; Karen Swan, Research Professor in the Research Center for Educational Technology at Kent State University (2006 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching Learning by an Individual); Eric E. Fredericksen, Associate Vice Provost, University of Rochester, non-voting committee chair. Effective practice awards were selected by a committee unaffiliated with candidate institutions, including Karen Swan and Dan Robinson of Kent State University, John Sener of Sener Learning Services, and John Bourne and Janet Moore of Sloan-C; see more effective practices at http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org. Details about all awards are available at http://www.sloan-c.org/aboutus/awards.asp.
The purpose of the Sloan Consortium is to make education a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines, by helping learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs, according to their own distinctive missions. Created with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C is a consortium of more than 1200 organizations and accredited higher education institutions that provide infrastructure, equipment, tools, and online programs. Sloan-C encourages networks among people as channels for sharing knowledge and effective practices in learning effectiveness, access, affordability, student satisfaction and faculty satisfaction.
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