May 7, 2008

Faculty encouraged to attend distance ed workshop this week

ITaP's Distance Education Incentive Awards program will kick off with a faculty intensive workshop, scheduled for this Thursday and Friday, May 8-9.

The program is open to faculty at Purdue University West Lafayette and the statewide technology sites who have developed or are interested in developing a distance education course in a learning management system, such as Blackboard Vista. Hybrid or blended classes are not eligible.

Faculty who develop the top ten distance education courses will receive a $3,000 incentive award from the Instructional Development Center (IDC), and will be recognized at the 2009 Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) Conference awards presentation.

For more information about how to qualify to participate, the timeline for the 2008 program, and the process to apply for the May 8 workshop, see the IDC Distance Education Incentives Award Program web site at http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/idc/awards.cfm.