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Sakai Community has announced the expansion of educational competition with Sakai Innovation Award

(Business Wire) 12 October 2010

Today, the teaching and learning Sakai community has the 4th Annual Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) announced the competition. The award promotes the exchange of innovative processes of teaching with technology and recognizes outstanding practices and pedagogy. With the price of 2011, the Committee recognizes the growing size and diversity of the community Sakai, add categories for innovation in a face-to-face or web, of course, enhanced in higher education, higher education distance learning or hybrid course, a primary and secondary school courses and co-site non-credit courses that can go towards cooperation portfolio, research and students.

In the fourth year, saw the winners from Africa, Australia and North America, representing a wide spectrum of disciplines, approaches and pedagogical approaches. submit select winners of the year 2011, spending for entries until 11 Sakai Conference in Berlin, Germany paid.

entries will be defined on a grid and the definition of innovation to be evaluated. The Committee TWSIA defined an innovative course or an educational experience that, by design, encourages and challenges students resulting in the best interest of the students, a deeper level of understanding and / or a lasting change in the students? ? The perception of a problem or issue.

participants will be judged by a jury made, including: Dr. Alec Kouros, a professor of educational technology and media, and Coordinator of Information and Communications, Faculty of Education, University of Regina, wife Noriah Ismail, a lecturer at the University of Technology MARA, Malaysia, Dr. Ken Masters, an assistant professor of computer science at the Medical College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, Dr. Lawrence C. Ragan, Director of the educational design and development for the state of Pennsylvania? Universityâ s Global Campus, Laurie Richlin, Ph.D., director of the Office of Faculty Development at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, and Dr. James Zimmerman, director of the Institute for Christian A. Johnson for effective teaching at Rollins College .

The award is sponsored by IBM Global Education and supported by rSmart and Wiley Higher Education.

â? We are honored that such a dedicated group of judges and sponsors for the award, have one? Robert Coyle said the committee co-chairman at Johns Hopkins University TWSIA. â? Assistance to judges, sponsors and the incredible enthusiasm of the Sakai community has allowed us to grow and expand this important recognition of the> excellence.â ????

â? The teaching and learning community is essential to the success of the Sakai community and software, â? Ian accepts Dolphin, director of the Sakai Foundation. â? As the community shares these innovations through the awards program has generated new ideas, new possibilities, and further improvements to the existing environment of enhanced learning technologies are created.â p>? want To apply for this award, for more information http://www.openedpractices.org/twsia.


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