Inaugural Class of Sloan-C Fellows (November 2010)

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Sloan-C Announces Inaugural Class of Sloan-C Fellows

Meg Benke
Vice Provost for Global and Online Learning, Empire State College, SUNY
“For innovative and inspirational work in the creation, design, and evaluation of online student services and for sustained advocacy for online learning on a national scale.”

John R. Bourne
Executive Director, Sloan Consortium
Professor Emeritus, F.W. Olin College of Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Babson College
“For exceptional service as the founding Executive Director of the Sloan Consortium and the founding Editor of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks.”

Bruce N. Chaloux
Director of the Electronic Campus of the Southern Regional Education Board 
President, Sloan Consortium
“For his leadership of Sloan-C as it transitioned to a self-sustaining professional society and for his contributions to national projects that demonstrated the power of online learning.”

Charles D. Dziuban
Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness
at the University of Central Florida
“For developing new and more effective data analysis models that provide information about technology’s impact on the online, blended and Web 2.0 learning environments.”

D. Randy Garrison
Director of the Teaching & Learning Centre
Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary
“For advocacy of collaborative and engaged learning and for advancing our understanding of online and blended learning.”

Ralph E. Gomory
President Emeritus, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“For remarkable vision and leadership in recognizing the importance of online education and for making online education a recognized part of American higher education through targeted philanthropy on a national scale.”

Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Information Systems, College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
“For conceiving the idea of Virtual Classrooms and for scholarship related to the design, implementation, and verification of effective online education over multiple decades.”

A. Frank Mayadas
Senior Advisor, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“For outstanding vision and sustained leadership in transforming higher education through support of exemplary approaches to online education, and for creating the Sloan Consortium.”

Gary E. Miller
Executive Director Emeritus, Penn State World Campus, Pennsylvania State University
“In recognition of a forty-year career devoted to using online learning and electronic media to increase access to education at all levels nationally and internationally.”

Jacqueline F. Moloney
Executive Vice Chancellor
University of Massachusetts Lowell
“For her role as a national leader in championing the application of the Sloan-C pillars in building online programs that provide quality access for students and while advancing strategic institutional goals.”

Burks Oakley II
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scholar in Residence at the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service (COLRS), University of Illinois at Springfield
“For innovative and inspirational work in the conceptualization, implementation, and advocacy of online learning in higher education on a national scale.”

Anthony G. Picciano
Professor and Executive Officer, PhD Program in Urban Education,
Graduate Center - City University of New York
“For outstanding publications that have advanced the field of online learning and for his tireless contributions to the conference activities of Sloan-C.”

Janet K. Poley
CEO and President of the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)
“In recognition of a distinguished career devoted to expanding distance education and to improving technology access, and for exceptional service to Sloan-C.”

Ray E. Schroeder
Director, Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service (COLRS)
Professor Emeritus of Communication
University of Illinois at Springfield
“For increasing access to higher education by cultivating a breadth of online degree programs and for chronicling the progress of the theory and practice of online education through new media.”

Karen P. Swan
Stukel Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership,
College of Education and Human Services, University of Illinois at Springfield
“For rigorous research that has advanced our understanding of learning effectiveness in online and blended education.”

Calvin H. Sydnor, III
Editor, The Christian Recorder
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ethics and Religion, Hampton University
“For sustained advocacy of online learning and its implementation within the HBCU community and for exemplary service to Sloan-C.”