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Provost's Award for Best Paper in Online Education Research

The Provost’s Office would like to announce its annual Provost’s Award for Best Paper in Online Education Research.

The competition was established to encourage excellence in online education and new scholarship and research among UMUC faculty. All UMUC faculty members and academic administrators who have taught online or hybrid courses* are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are of the same high quality as submissions to peer-reviewed journals.

As many as three winners will be recognized with a $500 honorarium and will be featured on the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Web page. Recipients will also be invited to the Academic Achievement dinner.

*To be eligible, adjunct faculty members must have taught for at least two semesters since January 2007.

Submission Details and Requirements

Submissions should focus on online education and may include, but are not limited to:

  • Best instructional practices
  • Administration and policy
  • New technology
  • New approaches to teaching and learning

Submissions that focus on best practices should clearly demonstrate how the practices were incorporated into the overall course, focus on evidence of student learning and engagement and show how best practices might be applied by fellow faculty members.

Please note the submissions must also

  • Include a scholarly review of literature with a minimum of 10 sources
  • Be predominantly about UMUC data, context, or domain
  • Be between 4,000 and 10,000 words, not including documentation and references
  • Be single-spaced, font size 12, with one-inch margins
  • Follow APA or MLA style
  • Include the author name(s), title(s), and departmental affiliation(s) on page 1

Submission Deadline

Completed papers are due no later than Monday, March 1, 2010. For more information, contact Susan Ko at sko@umuc.edu. Please include the words “Paper Competition” in the subject of your e-mail.

Papers will undergo review by a committee chaired by Jay Liebowitz, Orkand Chair, and authors will likely be asked to make modifications to content and style for publication of the final version on the CTL Web page.

Winners will be announced on Thursday, April 15, 2010.

Additional Paper Resources

These sources may be helpful in developing ideas for paper submissions.

  • Benson Paper – 2007 Summer Institute [PDF -126.58 KB]
  • Vanderbilt Teaching Resources
  • Indiana University Journals
  • Indiana University Bloomington Journals
  • Indiana University Bloomington Teaching Resources
  • Starr-Glass Paper Winner of the 2009 UMUC Provost’s Best Paper Competition) [PDF -83.1KB]