Apereo Teaching and Learning Awards (ATLAS) 2017 Planning
(formerly named Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award - TWSIA)
Sponsorship Opportunities
We are always looking for sponsors for ATLAS. If you know of a company that might also be interested in being a sponsor, please contact the Apereo Foundation at info@apereo.org.
NOTE: This page is a working space for the award committee, not the actual application site.
The application site is https://www.apereo.org/communities/atlas
ATLAS Goals
- To promote excellent pedagogy and innovation in teaching and learning
- To create a community of educators who want to share teaching and learning practices
- To encourage greater faculty involvement in the Apereo community
- Award entries are evaluated against rubrics and the definition of innovation. Each applicant will submit a description of their innovative teaching method, practice or strategy and indicate the ways in which it addresses the award rubric.
ATLAS 2018 Planning Timeline
For reference purposes, here is the ATLAS 2017 page
Call in information for committee meetings:
Meetings | Date(s)/times |
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First Committee Meeting - Meeting notes | July 26, 2016 9AM ET |
2nd Committee Meeting - Meeting notes | |
3rd Committee Meeting - Meeting notes | |
4th Committee Meeting - Meeting notes | |
19th Meeting to finalize selection of ATLAS winners for 2016 | |
20th Committee Meeting - Wrap-up - Meeting Notes | |
Activities | Date(s)/times |
Official announcement of award, open date for application | Jan. 15 |
Final application process closes | March 20 |
Judging Committee reviews entries and selects winners in each category | 2-3 WEEKS |
Winners and other entrants notified of results | April 10 |
Winners Announced (formal announcement from Apereo Foundation) | April 13/14 |
Apereo (Sakai) Conference | June 4-8, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA, US. |
Date of winners presentations at conference |
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ATLAS 2017 Materials:
- Announcement about opening of competition
- Application form for course & project entries (2016)
- Application form for portfolio entries (2016)
- Information for judges:
ATLAS 2017 COMMITTEE
Subject: Call for award committee members
We hope to continue the success of this award for 2016 and are looking for committee members that represent many different groups within our community, so please don't hesitate to sign up. Please contact Luisa Li luisa.li@marist.edu or Cheryl Brown cheryl.brown@uct.ac.za if you are interested in working on the committee.Thank you for your support!
Members
First | Last | Affiliation | Position | Google Account | Roles (please indicate which) | Expertise (tools, language, network, sector, region) | |
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Luisa | Li | Marist College | Instructional Designer |
| Higher Ed, training, course design, pedagogy and technology | ||
Armanda | Lewis | New York University | Director, FAS Office of Educational Technology |
| Assessment, active learning, blended & online learning, curriculum and project development, K-16, PBL | ||
David | O'Steen | Wellesley College | Instructional Technologist | Will come back next year | Higher Ed - F2F, Online/Hybrid Courses Project Sites & Other Uses of Sakai | ||
Dina | Kurzweil | USUHS | Deputy Director | dina.kurzweil@ |
| K12, Higher Ed, faculty support, andragogy, pedagogy, ed tech, curriculum development, blended, F2F, & fully online education. | |
Fawei | Geng | University of Oxford | Learning Technology Support Officer |
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Guillermo | Rodríguez, Ph.D. | IRICE - Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Argentina | Professor and Researcher | rodriguez@irice-conicet.gov.ar
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| Higher Education: Face-to-Face Higher Education: Fully Online or Hybrid Course Project Sites & Other Uses of Sakai | |
Janice | Smith, Ph.D. | Three Canoes LLC | Portfolio Consultant |
| Portfolios
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Jennifer | Loudiana | Walsh University | Instructional Specialist | ||||
Jolie | Tingen | Duke University | eLearning Applications Specialist |
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Mary Jo | Carnot | Chadron State College | Director, Teaching and Learning Center | Higher Ed, various course formats, project and course sites | |||
Mobie | Nwaokomah | University of Baltimore | e-Learning Specialist | ||||
Salwa | Khan, Ph.D. | Texas State University | Coordinator, IT Projects | Higher Ed Course & Project sites | |||
Zora | Rizzi | Tufts | Senior Client Support Specialist | ||||
Julian | Tenney | Xerte | Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk |
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Ron | Mitchell | Xerte | ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk |
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Holly | Glenzer | holly.glenzer@pepperdine.edu | open to filling any needs | higher ed. senior instructional designer & faculty professional development; universal design of learning & accessibility is important to me |