San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science has received the 2013 Sloan Consortium Effective Practice Award for its innovation in online education. The school, part of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts, offers
Debbie Faires receives the Sloan-C award in Florida.
completely online degree programs and has faculty who teach remotely from as far away as London.
According to the SLIS website, the award recognizes the school’s effective use of the Sloan-C Quality Scorecard for the Administration of Online Education Programs, which the school uses to measure the quality of its fully online graduate programs. The award also acknowledges the school’s efforts to share results transparently with all stakeholders by posting scorecard results (http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/about-slis/scorecard) on the school’s website.
The 2013 award winners were announced on Nov. 4. Winners will be honored Nov. 21 during the Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning in Lake Buena Vista, Fl.
The Sloan Consortium is nonprofit group of individuals, institutions and organizations that are committed to quality online education, started in 1992.
For more on the award, visit the SLIS website at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/about-