Needham, MA -- The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more than 1000 institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, will present the 2006 awards at the 12h Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: the Power of Online Learning, Realizing the Vision, in Orlando, Florida, November 8, 2006.
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” said 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."
2006 Sloan C Excellence in Online Teaching & Learning Award Winners
Excellence in Faculty Development for Online Teaching University of Maryland University College CTLA 201, Teaching with WebTycho Training Course
Excellence in Online Teaching Bill McCarthy, Quinsigamond Community College and Susan Oaks, State University of New York Empire State College
Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual Karen Swan, Kent State University
Most Outstanding Online Teaching & Learning Program The Pennsylvania State University Basic and Advanced Certificates in Turfgrass Management and BS in Turfgrass Science
The Sloan-C Excellence Awards Selection Committee for 2006 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, William Messner, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin Colleges, Gerardo de los Santos, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of League for Innovation in the Community College; Burks Oakley II, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois; Charles Dziuban, Director, Information Fluency Quality Enhancement Program, University of Central Florida; Roxanne Hiltz,Distinguished Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Eric E. Fredericksen, Associate Vice Provost and Director of Academic Technology Services at the University of Rochester 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 of their online programs, 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. Created with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction.
Sloan-C Contact: Eric E. Fredericksen Associate Vice Provost University of Rochester 220 Morey Hall Rochester, New York 14627 t - 585.273.1714 e - eric.fredericksen@rochester.edu
