This award recognizes and rewards superior online teaching provides models of excellence for fellow faculty, and encourages all faculty to continue to improve and advance their online teaching pedagogy.
The monetary award of $1,000 will be given to the award recipient directly via payroll.
Eligibility
All faculty (all groups and ranks) in the College of Health Sciences and Professions are eligible to receive this award. A recipient may not receive the award in consecutive years. The course must be at least 70% online.
Period of consideration
Most recent evaluation period, i.e., January through December
Nomination
Chair/director, colleague, or self-nomination
Timeline
- March 3, 2025: Nominee submits a complete set of materials online. Convert your application to one consolidated PDF file.
Basic requirements of the application
Please use an 11-point, Arial font. The proposal should not exceed seven (7) pages. Appendices have no page limit.
Page 1: Cover page: Please include name, name of award, and period
Page 2: If nominated by a chair/director or colleague, please include a brief endorsement written by that individual. A formal letter may be submitted, but not required.
Pages 3-7: In this section, please make sure that you address the following:
1. Describe your teaching approach for your online course. In doing so, please comment on the following criteria:
- Student engagement/interaction
- Organization/ease of navigation/technology that works
- Smart use of multi-media
- Sense of community
- Student-friendly pacing
- Self-directed assignments (optional)
- Appealing to all learning styles
- Right balance of/monitoring of discussion boards
- Instructor visibility and accessibility
2. Next step: How will the experience of teaching this online course inform/improve/change your online teaching in the future?
3. Briefly describe how you would convey your unique approach to online teaching as best practice to another faculty member who is interested in developing an online course for the first time or improving their online course.
Appendices
You may use appendices to provide evidence to support your responses above (e.g., screenshots).
Review Committee
The CHSP Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (TLA) Committee will serve as the selection committee. If one of the committee members is a nominee, a substitute committee member will be obtained from that department/school.
Award Selection by the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Committee
The review committee described above will review the award submissions, select the recipient, and advise the CHSP Dean of its selection. If the TLA Committee does not reach a consensus, it will forward the names of potential recipients to the Dean, who will make the final decision.