WISE Receives Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Online Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sloan-C Contact:
Janet C. Moore
The Sloan Consortium
Chief Learning Officer
janet.c.moore@sloan-c.org
September 2006
Sloan-C Honors Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning
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 Effective Practice Awards
Kent State University - Combining Effective Individualized and Group Instruction
Ohio State University -- The Statistical Buffet
WISE -- A Collaborative Distance Education Model for Library and Information Science
2006 Program Profile Award
University of Michigan College of Engineering and GM Technical Education Program -Master of Engineering in Global Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering
The Sloan-C Effective Practice and Program Profile Awards were selected by the Sloan-C editors for effective practices: Dr. Tana Bishop of the University of Maryland University College, Dr. Melody Thompson of The Pennsylvania State University World Campus, Dr. Peter Shea of the State University of New York University at Albany, Mr. John Sener of Sener Learning Services, and Dr. Karen Swan of Kent State University.
Details about the awards are available at http://www.sloan-c.org/aboutus/awards.asp; they are viewable at http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org.
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.