 The
Web-Based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium
Honored for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning.
The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more
than 1,000 institutions and organizations of higher education
engaged in online learning, has named the WISE consortium
a winner of its 2006 Effective Practice Award. WISE offers
unique distance education courses to students at its 13
member (of which Pitt is a member) schools. Pitt students
have the ability to select from an extensive list of online
courses from other ALA-accredited programs, and take courses
with faculty who are highly regarded in their area of expertise.
Online learning has greatly progressed since 1992 when
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation began giving grants to institutions
for online learning initiatives. “The field of online
education continues to show vigor and strength,” says
Frank Mayadas, president of Sloan-C. “Every year
we see advances in the important matters of quality, scale,
and breadth within this still fledgling community. The
individuals and institutions honored this year are recognized
for showing exceptional leadership in advancing online
education along these dimensions.”
SIS is proud to be a part of the WISE Consortium, which
has offered more than 117 online courses since its founding
in 2004. Recently, the IMLS Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) awarded a grant for $936,000 to
the WISE consortium to support WISE+ Leveraging the Power
of the Network to Increase the Diversity of LIS Curriculum. |
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