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American Academy McAllister Institute receives prestigious WCET Award for Outstanding Use of Technology in Higher Education
Boulder, Colorado — WCET is pleased to announce the names of the five recipients of the 2007 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award: American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, Kansas State University, Rio Salado College, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium and Minnesota Online. The annual award recognizes innovative and effective uses of technologies in educating and serving students.
“The WOW Award represents a way to recognize and celebrate the best and most promising practices within the WCET community,” says Paul Wasko, WCET Awards Committee chair and assistant director for e-learning services and related efforts in the Academic Affairs Division of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. “For the 2007 WOW Award, there was a wonderful slate of possible recipients that made the committee’s job especially difficult. This year’s recipients reinforced the value of innovative solutions and the need to always keep in mind the needs of the student as consumer.” WCET summarized AAMI’s achievement as follows:
American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service: The Online College for Funeral Service Education. American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service (AAMI), one of the oldest accredited funeral service schools, based in New York City, discovered a large, unmet national need for access to funeral service schools: 19 states didn’t have a funeral service school and 70 percent of the existing schools were community colleges that only served their own region. AAMI’s solution was to launch a comprehensive, fully online degree program in funeral service. With the assistance of consultants and a contract with the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium, AAMI offered its first six online courses in January 2006. By April 2007 all courses (except the clinical capstone experience, which was held in New York City in August 2007) were offered online each semester, and AAMI enrollments had doubled. The first six online students graduated in August 2007 and all six subsequently passed the National Board Exams.
About WCET
WCET (www.wcet.info) is a cooperative that’s actively engaged in sharing cutting-edge research and best practices in the effective use of technology in higher education. Its nearly 300 members are colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and corporations located in 46 states and nine countries. Through WCET, members work together to shape e-learning’s future in higher education and ensure its quality.
Contact:
Russell Poulin
WCET Associate Director
303.541.0305, rpoulin@wcet.info
http://www.wcet.info
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