CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
Win a Division of Design and Development Award –
be invited to deliver a presentation at the AECT Conference and
save $100 on your conference registration fee!
This is the annual call for nominations for the awards sponsored by the Design and Development Division of AECT. Information about each of the awards, including how to submit nominations, is detailed below. Please note that you may nominate your own work as well as the work of others. All nominations and accompanying materials must be received by June 15, 2007.
Each of the winners of AECT’s Design and Development Division Awards will be invited to deliver a conference presentation about their award-winning entry awards and the senior author of each winning entry will be given a $100 rebate on his or her conference registration fee (courtesy of the programs in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University). Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your work, to get an automatic presentation slot at the conference, and to receive a $100 rebate on your conference registration fee! Submit your nomination(s) as soon as possible!
Outstanding Practice Award
This award will be given to those individuals or groups that have designed exemplary instructional materials or systems. The materials or systems must have been designed no earlier than 2007. In assessing the quality of the work submitted, judges will examine:
a) the instructional events (activities that constitute the materials or system)
b) the directions for using the materials or events
c) performance data and/or attitude data regarding the effectiveness of the instructional material or system (this information must be provided in order for the nomination to be considered)
Please discuss these items in your cover letter. To be considered for the award, send the material or system that was designed (or a description of the material or system), along with a cover letter to:
Monica W. Tracey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Instructional Technology
383 Education
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
ab0225@wayne.edu
phone: 313.577.1700
Outstanding Book Award
Books nominated must bear a copyright date of 2007, 2008, or 2009 and should be relevant to the field of instructional design. Anyone (readers, authors, or publishers) who is aware of a book believed to warrant an award is encouraged to nominate it. The nomination procedure is outlined below:
Nominations will be by signed letter. Electronic submissions of letters are appropriate. You may include a short statement providing your rationale for nominating the book.
Complete bibliographic information should be included IN YOUR LETTER OF NOMINATION: author, name of book, where published and by whom, date of publication, and ISBN number if known. You may provide as enclosures: copies of reviews, promotional literature, or other informational materials which help to describe the nature and quality of the book.
Five copies of the nominated book, and all of the above material, should be sent to:
Doris Bollinger, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Education, Adult Learning and Technology
University of Wyoming
Dept. 3374, ED 322
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
phone: 307.766.2167
dbollige@uwyo.edu
Outstanding Journal Article Award
Articles nominated must have been published no earlier than 2007 in a regularly published journal, and should be relevant to the broad field of instructional design. Anyone may submit a nomination. The nomination procedure is outlined below: Nominations will be by signed letter. Self-nominations are welcomed. If you desire, you may include a short statement providing your rationale for the nomination. A complete bibliographic citation should be included in the letter.
Send one copy of the nominating letter, and either five (5) hard copies or one PDF electronic copy* of the article to:
Dr. Susan Land
310D Keller Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
phone: 814.863.5990
sml11@psu.edu
*Note: PDF copies of published manuscripts will be accepted as long as they retain the original published format. (Do not send a PDF file of a submitted manuscript, page proofs, etc.). Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines will not be considered.
Robert M. Gagne Award for Graduate Student Research in Instructional Design
This award, which will include a $250 check to the winner, as well as the $100 rebate on the conference registration fee, will be given to a graduate student who has made a significant contribution to the body of knowledge upon which instructional design practices are based. The work must have been completed no earlier than 2007, while the nominee was enrolled as a graduate student. You may nominate any individual (including yourself) for the Robert M. Gagne Award. Nominations should include one copy of the single piece of work (journal article, dissertation, etc.) being nominated, and a brief cover letter. Send these materials to:
Dr. Gary J. Anglin
137 Taylor Education Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0001
phone: 859.257.5972
ganglin@uky.edu
Nova Southeastern Award for Outstanding Practice by a Graduate Student in Instructional Design
This award, which includes a $100 cash award, will be given to a graduate student who has designed exemplary instructional materials. The materials must have been designed no earlier than 2007, while the nominee was enrolled as a graduate student. In order for the nominee to be considered for the award, the materials that were designed, along with a cover letter describing why the materials are exemplary, must be sent to:
Dr. Michael Simonson
Nova Southeastern University
1750 NE 167th St.
North Miami Beach, FL 33162
e-mail: simsmich@nova.edu
phone: 1-800-986-3223 ext. 8