The PacifiCorp Design and Development Award Call for Judges
Wednesday, March 17th, 2004PacifiCorp and the Design and Development Division of AECT are pleased to announce the first annual PacificCorp Design and Development Award for promising instructional design research by graduate students working with mentors in the Design and Development Division. PacifiCorp is specifically interested in promoting collaboration and mentoring within the professional community. The first award will be made in October 2004 at the AECT Convention in Chicago.
The goals for this award are to:
* improve the professional practice of design and development in adult learning and performance-improvement settings;
* promote collaboration among students, faculty, and practitioners;
* mentor promising students by leaders outside their home institutions; and,
* recognize innovative design-and-development approaches to adult learning and performance-improvement problems.
All graduate student finalists invited to present at AECT will receive free conference registration. Award-winning papers will received special recognition at the D&D/RTD Awards Luncheon and will be considered for likely publication in ETR&D.
The PacifiCorp Design & Development Award Committee is seeking volunteers to serve as judges for this year’s competition. Judges will be called upon three times during the competition:
1) to judge initial, 1500-word proposals (between April 1st and May1st),
2) to judge final, 5,000-word papers (between August 15th and September 15th, and
3) to judge presentations at the AECT national convention.
Judges may come from either academic or corporate backgrounds but should have extensive, practical experience in design and development and have extensive knowledge of relevant instructional design theory and research in the field.
Interested judges should contact MJ Bishop (mj.bishop@lehigh.edu) or 610-758-3235 for more details.