Download the 2008 Sloan-C Awards brochure (pdf) and 2008 Sloan-C Awards Press Release (pdf).

2008 Ralph E. Gomory Awards for Quality Online Education

University of Central Florida

University of Illinois at Springfield

Click on the following links to read the 2008 Gomory Award winning nominations. These may be used as exemplars for future nominations:

University of Central Florida
University of Illinois at Springfield

2008 Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning Awards

Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual
Gary E. Miller, Penn State University

Excellence in Online Teaching
Jeannette Riley, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Excellence in Faculty Development for Online Teaching
University of West Florida

Most Outstanding Online Teaching & Learning Program
Online Graduate Behavioral Intervention in Autism Program, UMass Lowell, UMass Medical - Shriver Center, UMassOnline

Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Teaching & Learning Programming
Fort Hays State University

2008 Sloan-C Awards Selection Committee

Meg Benke, Director of the Center for Distance Learning, SUNY Empire State College (recipient of the 2007 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching Learning by an Individual)
Charles Dziuban, Professor and Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Central Florida (recipient of the 2005 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching Learning by an Individual)
Judith S. Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation
Carmen Gonzales, Vice Provost, New Mexico State University
Melvin Johnson, President, Tennessee State University
John V. Lombardi, President, Louisiana State University System
Sylvia Manning, President-Elect, Higher Learning Commission
Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Professor, Sierra College (recipient of the 2007 Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Online Teaching)
Stella Perez, Vice-President of Operations and Technology Programs, League for Innovation in the Community College
Thomas Ramage, President, Parkland College
Karen Swan, Research Professor in the Research Center for Educational Technology at Kent State University (recipient of the 2006 Sloan-C Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching Learning by an Individual)
Burks Oakley II, Visiting Research Professor, University of Illinois at Springfield, non-voting committee chair
 

2008 Sloan-C Effective Practice Awards

Susan Wegmann
University of Central Florida
Content Area Vocabulary Digital Stories

Ed Gehringer
North Carolina State University
Engaging Students Through Electronic Peer Review

Brian Beatty
San Francisco State University
Using the "HyFlex" Course and Design Process

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Award for Paper of the Year

Katrina A. Meyer, Associate Professor of Higher and Adult Education
University of Memphis
“If Higher Education Is a Right, and Distance Education Is the Answer, Then Who Will Pay?”
JALN, Volume 12:1 - February 2008
 

Special Recognition

Eric E. Fredericksen
Chair of the Sloan-C Awards Selection Committee
2003-2007