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Excellence in Online Teaching

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

Through this award, SDSU 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 ongoing 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 SDSU’s quality assurance review rubric.
• Demonstrates dedication to enhancing online teaching skills, improving online curriculum or advancing research opportunities in the area of online education.

Awardees

Online/Hybrid Instructor Certification Recognition

In order to enhance SDSU’s commitment to academic excellence, a training program has been designed specifically for online and hybrid instructors.

This program focuses on the skills, knowledge and best practices required of high-quality online or hybrid instruction. The program allows online and hybrid instructors to choose to become certified at one of three levels: basic, advanced and master.