Newswise — The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more than 450 institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, will present its 2003 awards for effective practices in online learning at the 9th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning in Orlando, Florida, November 15, 2003.
The Sloan-C 2003 award for LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS will be awarded to Dr. Jeremy Dunning, of Indiana University Bloomington who designed a set of learning objects adaptable for various teaching styles. Dr. J. Olin Campbell, associate professor in instructional performance and technology at Brigham Young University, will receive the award for COST EFFECTIVENESS for showing how simulated electronics laboratories increase learning and decrease trips to a physical lab. The award for ACCESS will be presented to Dr. Jimmy Reeves, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Dr. Doris Kimbrough, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver for their development of home-based science laboratories which have enabled students to complete lab-based science courses in online. Dr. Melody Thompson, Director of the American Center for the Study of Distance Education will receive the award for FACULTY SATISFACTION for a self-study research project that helps faculty and administrators better understand faculty workload.
The award for STUDENT SATISFACTION will be presented to Dr. James Theroux of the University of Massachusetts Amherst for sharing the practice of a Real-Time Case Method that provides access to real-time, real-world cases for students at several universities.
The 2003 Sloan-C Awards will be presented at the 9th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning in Orlando, Florida, on November 15, 2001. Effective Practices were nominated by the Sloan-C editors: Dr. Meg Benke of Empire State College, Dr. Tana Bishop of the University of Maryland University College, Dr. Melody Thompson of The Pennsylvania State University World Campus, Mr. John Sener of Sener Learning Services, and Dr. Karen Swan of Kent State University. Awardees were selected by an invited panel of judges: Dr. Bruce N. Chaloux, Director of the Electronic Campus of the Southern Regional Education Board; Dr. Jacqueline Moloney, Dean of Continuing, Corporate and Distance Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Dr. George Otte, Director of Instructional Technology, City University of New York; Dr. Cornell Reinhart, Director of University without Walls, Skidmore College; Ms. Carol Scarafiotti, Dean of Instruction, Rio Salado College; Dr. Peter Shea, Director, State University of New York Learning Network; and Dr. Janet Moore, Chief Learning Officer, The Sloan Consortium at the Sloan Center for OnLine Learning at Olin and Babson Colleges in Needham, MA (non-voting chair).
The purpose of Sloan-C is to help continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of online learning to make education part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines. Created with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C membership is open to academic institutions, government and corporate agencies, and organizations that support quality in higher education. Sloan-C is based at Olin and Babson Colleges. See http://www.sloan-c.org for more information.
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