Who is eligible to submit for the 1997 Premier Award?
The Premier Award was developed to recognize "high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education."
- The official language of the 1997 Premier Award competition is English.
- Administrative personnel (e.g., Coalition Directors, Department Chairs, Deans) in positions of authority over judges and/or facilitators are ineligible to submit to the 1997 Premier Award.
- Courseware submitted to the 1997 Premier Award competition must be distributable through NEEDS and on a Premier Courseware of 1997 CD-ROM. Thus the submitter must retain sufficient rights to allow NEEDS to become a non-exclusive distributor of the courseware as submitted for the 1997 Premier Award competition.
The judging panel may include NEEDS Premier Award Editors, one representative from each sponsoring organization, at-large content-area expert(s), and at-large instructional designers. All judges will abide by standard National Science Foundation conflict-of-interest guidelines for proposal review. If the situation arises judges may recuse themselves, or be recused by the judging panel if any perceived conflict of interest occurs. Facilitators will be present to clarify questions regarding the intent of the criteria and procedural matters as well as arbitrate any conflict-of-interest problems.
If you'd like more information about the Premier Award or how to become a sponsor, please contact Professor Joe Tront at Virginia Tech via email at jgtront@vt.edu.
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