WISE Faculty of the Year Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WISE Contact:
Kathleen Schisa
support@wiseeducation.org
www.wiseeducation.org

December 2007

WISE Recognizes Outstanding Faculty 

WISE is proud to announce the recipients of the 2007 Excellence in Online Teaching Award.  This year, WISE recognizes seven instructors, each from a different WISE institution, for their outstanding dedication to best practices in online education.  

2007 Excellence in Online Teaching Award Recipients:

Tomas Lipinski – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Linda Braun – Simmons College
Ian MacInnes – Syracuse University
Ellen Detlefsen – University of Pittsburgh
Judah Hamer – Rutgers University
Carisse Berryhill – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Mary Minow – San José State University 

Faculty selected for the award received nominations from one or more WISE students at an institution other than the instructor’s home institution, based on their instructional style in one or more WISE courses taught between Spring 2007 and Fall 2007.

“The Excellence in Online Teaching Awards are unique because they are the first awards where students from one program vote on a teaching award for faculty at a different university,” says Syracuse University Associate Provost Bruce Kingma, who co-founded the consortium. “Cross-institutional initiatives like this show the growth of WISE as a consortium and provide a forum for the faculty winners to share success stories across all of the member institutions.”

The WISE Excellence in Online Teaching Awards will once again be presented at the WISE pedagogical workshop at ALISE, Best Practices for Online Pedagogy: Preparing WISE Scholars. Award recipients have contributed their own ideas for best practices on topics like organization, communication, and use of multimedia formats. These best practices will be shared as part of the 4^th annual workshop, which takes place on January 8.  The session also includes presentations and discussions on WISE quality metrics, designing effective assignments, including group work, evaluating student work and providing feedback, pedagogical pros and cons of new technology, and preparing students for online work, culminating in subject specific breakout sessions.

WISE was developed to provide faculty training for online pedagogy, establishing standards and metrics for online library and information science (LIS) education; and provide a collaborative marketplace for online LIS courses.  Since its inaugural year as an online course-sharing model for masters programs in library and information science (LIS) WISE has welcomed 15 LIS programs from participating colleges and universities around the world, and, as of December 2007 will have offered 267 online courses to 434 students.  WISE pedagogical training caters to both faculty and doctoral students, and is available to WISE members who are interested in advancing their online instruction skills.