Dec. 5, 2003Dec. 5, 2003
The 2004 Annual Conference Committee has announced the following schedule:
All UO/E faculty and staff are invited to provide input for planning Annual Conference through an online survey. Online registration information will be available by March 1.
Two UO/E regional faculty members will be part of the 2004 North Central Region's National Extension Leadership Development program. Lynda Johnson, WC nutrition specialist, and Wesley Tucker, SW ag and rural development specialist, will begin the leadership program in January.
NELD is designed to build leadership within cooperative extension, and to provide current and future extension leaders with vision, courage and tools to lead in a changing world. During 2004, Johnson and Tucker will participate in four seminars to:
The University of Missouri Center for Distance and Independent Study recently received three awards at the American Association for Collegiate Independent Study's annual conference in Sioux Falls, S.D., and one award at a University Continuing Education Association regional meeting in Santa Fe, N.M.
Von Pittman, the center's director, won the AACIS 2003 Excellence in Research Award for "Correspondence Study in the American University: A Second Historiographic Perspective." The paper was published earlier this year as a chapter in the Handbook of Distance Education, edited by Michael Moore and William Anderson. He also received the UCEA Mid-America Region Research and Publication Award. The award, given as a grant, will support development of a biographical article on Helen Williams, one of the first women to hold a prominent role in the association.
Terrie Nagel, student services coordinator, was presented the AACIS Student Services Professional Award. Nagel played an instrumental role last year as the center began administratively integrating distance education students with the university's central registration and record-keeping system.
MU High School's Interactive Spanish I course was selected to receive the AACIS Monty McMahon Award, given for the best new high school course. As longtime director of the University of Nebraska's independent study program, McMahon became one of the best-known and most respected leaders in distance education
The team involved in creating the course was made up of Joy Benson, course author; Tracy Barnett, editor; Sandhya Sharma, instructional designer; and Julie Moriarity, multimedia specialist. They were supported by Dave Knauer, educational technology coordinator; Marcie McGuire, senior editor; Kristi Smalley, MU High School principal; and Beverly Fox, elementary and secondary curriculum coordinator.
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