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³ÉÈËÊÓƵ is committed to quality education both in the physical and online classroom. ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ offers robust training and development opportunities for faculty to successfully transition courses to the online classroom to offer students a rich and rigorous educational experience.

Excellence in Online Teaching

The Excellence in Online Teaching award is to recognize an ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ faculty member who has demonstrated commitment to excellence in online teaching and course development of for-credit courses through South Dakota State University.

Through this award ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ recognizes outstanding online teaching faculty who:

• Uses innovative and effective online teaching strategies and technologies that result in student engagement, student satisfaction and achievement of desired student learning outcomes.
• Examines methods of assessment of student learning to inform teaching practices and reshape online courses based on an on-going and data-driven process.
• Utilizes interactive strategies to promote and foster instructor-student interaction, student-student interaction and student collaboration in the online learning environment.
• Exhibits a high level of instruction by using standards established by ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ’s quality assurance review rubric.
• Demonstrates dedication to enhancing online teaching skills, improving online curriculum and/or advancing research opportunities in the area of online education.

Awardees

Online/Hybrid Instructor Certification Recognition

In order to enhance ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ’s commitment to academic excellence, a training program has been designed specifically for online/hybrid instructors. This program focuses on the skills, knowledge and best practices required of high quality online/hybrid instruction. The program allows online/hybrid instructors to choose to become certified at one of three levels: Basic, Advanced and Master.