Thank you for your interest in the 2006-07 CVC Online Teaching Awards. The first ten award winners will be announced at the end of January 2007. The top three winners will be selected in mid May 2007. They will receive their awards and present their final projects at the 2007 Annual Online Teaching Conference to be held June 11-12, 2007 at Ohlone College, Fremont, California.
An electronic application form at available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=58482715219
General guidelines for the awards program are provided below. More information about the Selection Criteria and Eligibility Requirements is also available.
If you have any questions or need more information, feel free to contact Raquel Rios at RiosRa@butte.edu or (530) 895-2857.
All applicants will be notified in late January 2007.
General Guidelines
- 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. 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. The report should describe what faculty intended to do, identify any difficulties encountered, and summarize their accomplishments. These reports should include contact information for other faculty who may be interested in carrying out a similar project of their own.
- 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 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. 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. CVC will pay travel and lodging expenses for winning presenters for both the OTC and 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.