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A professor and her Media Website coursecast won the highest accolades at the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) National Conference last week. Professor Diane anger USDLA won the Excellence in Teaching for Distance Learning Online Award for her use of Sonic Foundry’s market-leading webcasting platform in a fully-online, rich media course Philosophy at York University.
“As the first organization for the entire distance learning profession, we are honoring Diane anger Sonic Foundry and as leaders in their industries,” said Dr. John G. Flores, chief executive officer of USDLA. “Together they have raised the bar of excellence, and we are truly honored by distance learning their contributions to the industry.”
Facing skepticism from other faculty members that a distance learning course could satisfy the course requirements, anger, applied for and won a grant to develop a rich media coursecast powered by Media Site by Sonic Foundry. Her goal for students taking the course online which for them to learn tangible skills, not just concepts. “The design of the course, which would be possible without Media site suppose that means greater individualization greater quality of learning,” said the anger.
Media anger site uses the platform to create student-centered, highly interactive course rich media that promote learning and deep development. It incorporates built-in continuous assessment, asynchronous discussion, clarification of expectations, and website registration synchronous, real-time interactions. Her course - which teach business ethics and philosophy to first, second and third-year undergraduate level students - in class size range from 50 to 90 students. About 10 percent of her students are adult learners from 30 to 50 age The students are enrolled distance learning from the Greater Toronto Area, across Canada and the United States, Australia, Pakistan, the Middle East and Europe.
Students can select the content delivery mode they prefer: about 10 percent video use hand-held devices to view the lectures, such as video iPod, 30 percent use another mp3 players to listen to the lectures, while the majority of the students on their Lectures view PC or Mac.
“In our opinion and many others, has taken Professor anger to capture reading entirely new level,” said Rimas Buinevicius, Chairman and CEO of Sonic Foundry. “We are immensely proud of the ways she has written on Media Website’s capabilities. She is truly on the leading edge of meeting the needs of various students within her a flexible, interactive learning community.”
The USDLA presented the award on April 23 at the 2008 International Distance Learning Award in conjunction with its National Conference 2008, St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1987, USDLA has been the world’s premier distance learning association. The International Awards annually awards program USDLA outstanding individuals and organizations engaged in the development and delivery of distance learning programs.
Through her pioneering Media Site of use in the classroom, anger, ie won Wide York University’s Teaching Award in 2007, and has been nominated for the Commonwealth of Learning in Distance Education Excellence Award in 2008.
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Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry http://www.sonicfoundry.com “/> is the recognized market leader for Rich Media webcasting and knowledge management, providing education and training solutions and services that link an information-driven world. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company has received numerous awards including the Frost & Sullivan 2007 Global Market Leadership Award, Ziff Davis Media’s Baseline Magazine’s sixth fastest-growing software company with sales under $ 150 million and Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 appointed Bersin & Associates, 2007 Learning Leader , Sonic Foundry’s webcasting and knowledge management solutions are trusted by education institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government agencies for a variety of critical communication needs. Sonic Foundry is changing the way organizations communicate via the Internet and how people around the globe essential information necessary to obtain education, business, professional advancement and safety. Product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks of the Sonic Foundry, Inc. All rights reserved. But their respective owners.
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