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Campus Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction Using Educational Technologies

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This award, consisting of $2,000 for the personal use of the faculty member who is selected to receive it, is designed to honor faculty members who have introduced particularly successful computing and communication technologies into undergraduate instruction.

Eligibility

All faculty and academic staff on regular appointment who have undergraduate teaching responsibilities and who have developed and implemented some innovative approach utilizing educational technologies are eligible to compete for this award. Once a person has received the award he or she will not be eligible for nomination during the next five-year period.

Criteria

Innovative approaches to undergraduate education using computing and communication technologies might involve any of the following: instructional use of asynchronous learning environments; the development or enhancement of instructional software; the integrated use of Web-based materials. The following criteria generally will be applicable:

Is the new approach quite unusual?
What has been the impact on students?
How effective is the innovation in terms of student learning? What can students see and do that they could not see and do before?

Nominations

Nominations may be submitted by students, faculty members, or administrators to a departmental committee. Preferably, the committee will also include undergraduate students.

The following information should be included in the nomination. Adherence to the following order of presentation is requested in order to simplify the work of selection committees:

A standard cover page including the name of the nominee, department, rank, and years at the University.
A brief description of the innovative technological approach, indicating what is new and creative about it.
A list of undergraduate classes affected and their enrollments.
Evidence of the impact of the innovative technological approach and its effectiveness in terms of student learning. Evaluation by both students and colleagues is desirable. For student evaluations, the use of customized ICES questions is encouraged. If student letters are solicited from current and former students, they must be accompanied by a brief description of the sampling method used in soliciting them. No more than four letters should be included.

Nominations should not exceed five double-spaced pages (excluding the cover sheet and four letters, if presented.) Two copies of each nomination are to be submitted to the Office of the Provost, 208 Swanlund Administration Building. The campus selection process is overseen by the Teaching Advancement Board, and is advisory to the Provost.

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Attachments

List of Past Winners