Altilab2005 - Distance Education Blog

The ITaP Distance Education Incentive Awards Program awards $30,000 in funds to qualified distance education courses. This year, ten Purdue faculty members received an award of $3000 each for developing or enhancing their distance education courses.

To be eligible for this award, each of the following faculty members attended a two day workshop, consulted with ITaP staff and developed a distance education course.  ITaP’s instructional technology staff reviewed and ranked submitted courses based on the course design, interaction/collaboration, assessment, and learner support:

•    Douglas Baumann and Tilman Achberger, STAT 598E — Introduction to Experimental Design
•    William Crum, CS 159 — Programming Applications for Engineers
•    Luciana C. de Oliveira, EDCI 591 — English Language Development
•    Nadine Dolby, EDCI 591 — Global Perspective in the Classroom
•    Teresa Doughty, EDPS 665 — Collaboration and Transition Practices in Special Education
•    Julia Kalish, IT 342 — Introduction to Statistical Quality
•    Eric Kukula, IT 332 — Purchasing, Inventory and Warehouse Management
•    Timothy Newby, EDCI 270 — Introduction to Educational Technology and Computing
•    Silvia Oliveira, SPAN 235 — Great Latin American Books
•    Jennifer Richardson, EDCI 566 — Educational Applications of Hypermedia

Due to budget restraints, ITaP has suspended the Distance Education Incentive Awards program for the next school year. ITaP will still offer faculty-technology workshops over spring break.  Scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 16 and 17, the training is open to all Purdue University faculty members and staff who have developed, interested in developing  a distance-education course, or are interested in creating blended online activities for a traditional course.