Attention California Community Colleges online
instructors: Are you achieving excellence in distance
education? Have you created an exemplary online course?
Would you like the opportunity to be recognized for your
work?
Fame, fortune and (paid) travel could be yours if your
online course is chosen as a recipient of the California
Virtual Campus (CVC) Online Education Award. The CVC
Online Education Awards Program is a new online
education mini-grant competition for California
Community Colleges (CCC) faculty.
During the first phase of the competition, ending in
January 2007, as many as ten applicants will receive a
$1,000 stipend and contract, and an opportunity to
compete for additional compensation. The initial
stipends will be granted to faculty members who submit
winning proposals for improving an existing online
course or for developing an online course that has been
approved through the curriculum peer-review process of
their college.
Three-quarters of the stipend will be paid at the
beginning of the contract and the remaining $250 upon
completion of the agreed-upon course
development/improvements. Proposed course
development/improvement work and a final report need to
be completed by April 21, 2007.
During late April and May 2007, the CVC competition
judges will review the course development/improvement
work that has been done and identify as many as three
winners of additional stipends, based upon a set of
published criteria. The three winners will receive
$2,500 for First Place, $1,500 for Second Place and $500
for Third Place.
As a condition for accepting one of these awards, all
three winners of the additional stipends must agree to
showcase and formally present their online courses at
the 2007 CVC/@ONE/CCC Confer Online Teaching Conference
(OTC) on June 11-12 at Ohlone College. CVC will pay the
winning presenter’s travel and lodging expenses for the
OTC.
The First Place winner also agrees to submit the winning
course for consideration by the MERLOT International
Conference (MIC) Planning Committee as a possible
presentation at the next MIC in summer 2007. If the MIC
Planning Committee accepts the presentation, CVC will
pay the presenter’s travel and lodging expenses for the
MIC.
CVC will assist the three winners in preparing digital
videos or PowerPoint presentations of their courses.
Those will be made available on the Web to other faculty
who may be interested. The reports from all ten projects
that were funded in January 2007 will also be made
available through the CVC Website's Online Learning
Exchange (OLÉ) to interested persons.
The CVC Online Education Awards Program is designed to
stimulate and foster the development of shareable online
teaching materials within the California Community
College System. We would like to encourage all CCC
faculty members who are developing new online courses or
improving existing courses to submit a proposal for
funding consideration.
More information about the awards program general
guidelines, eligibility requirements and selection
criteria is available at the CVC Web site at
http://pdc.cvc.edu/cvcaward/
An online application is available at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=58482715219
Applications for the competition will be accepted
through December 8, 2006.
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