(COD Awards nomination deadline is
April 23, 2008. )
Nomination Guidelines:
- Each MCO member college may nominate one course.
- The nominees will be honored at the June 10 & 11, 2008 MCO Conference on E-Learning. COD award winners will receive certificates and lasting tokens of recognition at the June 11 awards luncheon.
- The college’s MCO liaison will coordinate the nomination process, but all entries must be approved and made in conjunction with the institution’s chief academic officer.
- The nominated courses should be based on content created by the nominee. Courses that are substantially based on publisher-provided content and content not developed under the direction of the instructor are not eligible for nomination. To be nominated, a course must present more than 80 percent of its content online.
- It is expected that the faculty nominee will present a 20-minute overview of the course with questions following as part of the COD track at the June conference.
- The colleges and nominees agree to provide to the conference attendees student access to a demonstration version of the Course of Distinction from June 11 through June 23.
- The nomination form must be submitted online by April 23. In order to avoid privacy issues, an instructor may solicit permission from the nominated course’s students to allow conference participant and judging access, or a version of the course can be created with specific student identification removed.
Every effort has been taken to streamline the online nomination form. Care should be taken in providing the requested information, since it will be used in developing the conference program, press materials, and award ceremony introductions. A sample of a representative nomination is available as part of the nomination form.
In order to maximize college and individual recognition for the winners, general press materials based on the nomination form will be delivered soon after the award ceremony. Individual stories on the nominees and their courses will be distributed to the local press in July. In the past, COD stories received greater coverage when they were not competing with college/high school graduation news.
To facilitate the publicity process, please ask your public relations department to send the following to Ernie Greenslade, MCO’s marketing specialist, egreenslade@mco.mass.edu:
- A jpeg photo of the faculty member at a resolution of
200 dpi or better @4x6 inches
- The faculty recipient’s hometown
- A brief bio of the faculty member.
These materials should be received no later than Tuesday, May 29.