Sturgeon Honored with Exemplary Course Award
Owensboro, KY (05/19/2023) — Owensboro Community & Technical College is proud to announce that Instructional Designer Lorraine Sturgeon was recognized by their peers with the Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Award. The ECP Award, presented by the education technology company, Anthology, recognizes faculty and course designers from schools, colleges, and universities around the world who develop engaging and innovative courses that represent the very best in technology and learning.
Sturgeon was selected as a winner for her course Professional Development and Protocol. The course demonstrated excellence in four areas: Course Design: the elements of instructional design, such as its structure, learning objectives, and instructional strategies
Interaction and Collaboration: the level of engagement offered by the course and the level of student interaction and collaboration
Assessment: the evaluation of student work toward the achievement of learning outcomes and the quality and type of student assessments
Learner Support: the resources made available to students, which may be accessible within or external to the course environment
For nearly two decades, the Exemplary Course Program has honored instructors and course designers whose courses demonstrate best practices. The Exemplary Course Program Awards were expanded when Blackboard combined with Anthology in 2021. Since its founding, thousands of instructors, teachers, and designers have used the Exemplary Course Program to evaluate and improve their courses with recognized best practices. To be considered for the honor, applicants must be a user of the Blackboard Learn by Anthology learning management system. Submitted courses are evaluated by other course developers, instructional designers, teachers, and professors using the Exemplary Course Program Rubric.
"These educators represent some of the very best when it comes to developing courses that engage learners and drive student success," said Jim Brigadier, President of Global Markets at Anthology. "At Anthology, we're proud to announce the 2023 cohort of Exemplary Course Program Award winners and thank them for their commitment to engaging students and helping them achieve their goals."
Sturgeon is being recognized alongside other outstanding recipients on the Anthology website as well as in the Anthology Community, a platform where the largest organized network of users connect, collaborate, and learn from their peers. She is employed as the Online Learning Accessibility Coordinator at the Kentucky Community & Technical College System and teaches part-time at Owensboro Community & Technical College.
To learn more about the Exemplary Course Program, visit https://learn.anthology.com/exemplary-course-program. To learn more about making online courses more accessible for students please contact Lorraine.Sturgeon@kctcs.edu.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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