Boston (PRWEB) Might 28, 2013
This years Pearson Cite 2013 award recipients are employed at Park University, Texas Christian University, Saint Leo University and Regent University. The awards are divided into two categories Excellence in On-line Administration and Excellence in Online Teaching and honor outstanding accomplishments in on the internet larger education. As component of Pearsons efforts to encourage and help excellence in on-line greater education that drives student good results, Pearson will donate $ 1,000 to the scholarship fund of every single winners decision.

Dr. Michael Eskey (Park University) and Dr. Brian OConnell (Saint Leo University) received the Excellence in On-line Teaching award. Dr. Eskey is a tenured, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, and he serves as the Plan Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Department. As a plan coordinator, his function contains the recruitment, training and evaluation of one hundred online instructors. Furthermore, he serves on half-time release as an on the internet instructor evaluator for Park Distance Studying. This involves the formal observation of 90 on the web instructors in all disciplines, on an annual basis. Dr. Eskey has personally created ten online courses at the undergraduate level and eight courses at the graduate level for the criminal justice applications that he has taught since his retirement from the military in 2001.

Dr. OConnell is an Associate Professor of Education in rural Madison, Florida, where he teaches in a plan that Saint Leo University offers at North Florida Community College. The system delivers 5 bachelors degrees developed for students who can not attend classes on the major campus, which includes the universitys highly respected elementary education program. In addition to teaching in the classroom, Dr. O’Connell has not too long ago completed improvement of the course, EDU427, Educational Assessment. Operating with the instructional style team, he focused on application and analysis workout routines utilizing data collected by the state, and enhanced student engagement and interest. He also models exceptional teaching by providing detailed rubrics and powerful feedback.

The Excellence in On-line Administration award went to Ginger K. Zillges (Regent University) and Kerrie Conover (Texas Christian University). Ms. Zillges is an Assistant Vice President of On-line Finding out and Instructional Technologies at Regent University, exactly where she has served for almost 20 years in the field of distance learning. Overseeing the Center for Teaching and Learnings instructional employees, Ms. Zillges promotes faculty assistance, development and exemplar practices in online course style and teaching. Collaborating with Info Technology, Academic Affairs and Faculty, she helped launch the very first online M.B.A. and implemented the Good quality Matters Approach for on-line courses. Ms. Zillges has completed her course operate at Old Dominion University, where she is enrolled in the Ph.D. system in Instructional Design and Technologies.

Ms. Conover has been a Finding out Management Method Administrator for over seven years at Texas Christian University. Her instructional style, instructional technologies, and troubleshooting abilities have positively impacted TCU, and provided crucial automation solutions for each face-to-face and on the web faculty members. She has created more than 100 video tutorials for faculty and students to access from the TCU web site, in order to supply quick solutions for widespread troubles and measures in adopting and using on the web understanding tools. Ms. Conover has also created on the internet orientation courses, which all distance finding out students must full, allowing students to familiarize themselves with online learning at TCU, and allowing the institution to pull essential information points for new students and determine at danger students from the starting.

With a lot more than 6.7 million students taking at least one particular course on the web, on the internet understanding continues to supply elevated access to learners in pursuit of quality, versatile higher education, said John Dobbertin, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Operations and Services, Pearson. This years Cite award winners are outstanding examples of the driving force behind the prevalence of on the internet studying. We congratulate these leaders for their commitment to excellence in teaching and administration that promotes student achievement.

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