The United States Distance
Learning Association, the nation's premier distance
learning association since 1987 presents its
2006 Distance Learning Awards, the premier awards
for the distance learning industry. These
prestigious Awards are presented annually to
organizations and individuals and includes
for the first time its new 21st Century
Best Practice Award, as well as the Best Practice
Awards for Distance Learning Programming and
the Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching
Awards (formerly the Outstanding Individual
Achievement Award). The USDLA Awards are
created to acknowledge major accomplishments
in distance learning and to highlight those
distance learning instructors, programs, and
professionals who have achieved and demonstrated
extraordinary achievements through the use of
online, videoconferencing, and satellite delivery
technologies.
The USDLA Awards honor
for the first time starting this year one organization
with its 21st Century Best Practice Award.
This new award category recognizes outstanding
leadership in the field of distance learning
for an agency, institution, or company incorporating
blended or individual distance learning technologies.
In addition, the Awards for Best Practice in
Distance Learning Programming is presented to
outstanding organizations, which have designed
and delivered outstanding and comprehensive
Best Practices for individual programs
or a series of programs through online, videoconferencing,
and satellite delivery technologies. Award
levels include Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze
categories. The Excellence in Distance Learning
Teaching Awards will honor outstanding individuals
whose programs demonstrate extraordinary achievements
in a distance learning environment for teachers
or trainers. Award levels include Platinum,
Gold, Silver and Bronze categories. New award
criteria for online satellite and videoconferencing
is also available this year.
The 2006 USDLA Distance
Learning Awards are presented to five major
sectors of distance education and training and
include the Pre-K - 12, Higher Education, Corporate,
Government and Telehealth markets.
The 2006 USDLA Awards
will be presented at the USDLA Awards Ceremony,
scheduled for Monday, October 23, 2006 during
the Training Fall Conference and Expo being
held in Denver, Colorado.
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This award is given to
an agency, institution, or company that has
shown outstanding leadership in the field of
distance learning. The award recognizes
pioneering organizations in the field that have
changed distance learning, as well as new organizations
that have challenged existing practice by developing
new and innovative solutions for distance learning
instruction and employee distance learning training
programs. Technology delivery can be either
stand alone, online, satellite, videoconferencing
or a blended method.
These awards are given
to outstanding programming, which have
designed and delivered outstanding and comprehensive
best practices distance learning programming
for an individual program or a series of programs.
This award category includes online distance
learning, video conferencing, and satellite
distance learning. Award levels include
Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze Best Practice
Awards for Distance Learning Programming.
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These
awards are given to outstanding individuals
whose programs demonstrate extraordinary achievements
in scholarly research and writing, leadership,
and service including long term contributions
that enhance and create a better understanding
of distance learning for teaching or training
environments. The Excellence in Distance
Learning Teaching nominees will only be considered
the Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze award
levels. Use of technology delivery (online,
satellite, and video) will not be a consideration
in the award category.
Awards Criteria
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Lighting, Sound, Visual Environment,
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Don Lake,
USDLA Awards Chair and Director of the Center
for Distance and Online Learning,
Los Angeles County Office of Education, Los
Angeles, CA
Julie Young,
USDLA Board Member and President and Chief Executive
Officer of Florida Virtual School, Orlando,
FL
Marvin Bailey,
USDLA Board Member and President of the Center
for Interactive Learning & Collaboration,
Indianapolis, IN
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8 Winter Street, Suite
508, Boston, MA 02108 | www.usdla.org
Award Questions: email
kclemens@usdla.org
or call 800.275.5162.
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2006
Call for Nominations
| 2005 USDLA Awards
| 2004 USDLA Awards
2003 USDLA Awards
| 2002 USDLA Awards
| 2001 USDLA Awards
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