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 excellence in online teaching and learning at the 9th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning in Orlando, Florida, November 15, 2003. Sloan-C is based at Olin and Babson Colleges.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation began giving grants to institutions for online learning initiatives in 1992. "We've gone from several hundred students enrolled in online education courses to two million," said Frank Mayadas, President of Sloan-C. "This is in no small part due to the efforts of the individuals who have advanced the field and the institutions that are leading the way."
The Sloan-C 2003 award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching & Learning by an Individual will be awarded to Dr. Burks Oakley II, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois. Dr. William Pelz of Herkimer County Community College will receive the Sloan-C 2003 award for Excellence in Online Teaching. The award for Most Outstanding Online Teaching & Learning Program will be awarded to the University of Maryland University College for its Master of Distance Education (MDE). Web.Campus.Stevens of the Stevens Institute of Technology will receive the Sloan-C award for Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Teaching & Learning Programming. The award for Excellence in Online Teaching & Learning Faculty Development will be given to the University of Central Florida for its Faculty Development Initiative.
The Sloan-C Awards Selection Committee for 2003 was comprised of James J. Duderstadt, President Emeritus, University of Michigan, 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, Executive Director of Higher Education, Microsoft Corporation, and Eric E. Fredericksen, Director of Distributed Learning Services, Cornell University served as the non-voting committee chair.
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. See http://www.sloan-c.org for more information.
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