{"id":145,"date":"2011-12-05T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/?p=145"},"modified":"2011-12-05T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T11:59:45","slug":"blackboard-award-for-innovative-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/2011\/12\/05\/blackboard-award-for-innovative-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Award for Innovative Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/platforms\/learn\/resources\/community-programs\/meet-your-peers\/catalyst-awards.aspx\">2012 Blackboard Catalyst Awards<\/a> is now OPEN for submissions!<\/p>\n<p>The Blackboard Catalyst Awards honors those who push the boundaries of their educational programs and technology in order to deliver innovative and effective learning experiences. This year, we will recognize innovators in the following categories: <strong>Community Collaboration<\/strong>, <strong>Exemplary Courses<\/strong>, <strong>Innovative Development<\/strong>, <strong>Mobile Innovation<\/strong>, <strong>Staff Development<\/strong> and a new category \u2013 <strong>Communications Strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Submitting your program or course to the Catalyst Awards has many benefits, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Develop a fresh perspective by seeing how other institutions are implementing industry best practices<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Learn course design best practices to improve the engagement, collaboration, assessment and learner support within your own courses or courses you help develop<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gain peer, institution, and industry recognition for your accomplishments and participation in the program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Dates to Remember:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 December 1: Program is Open for Submissions \u2013 all categories<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 December 1: Call for Reviewers to review ECP course submissions<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 February 29: Submission Deadline<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 March 19 \u2013 April 6: Review Period<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Early May: Winners selected for all categories<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July: Winner Recognition at the Catalyst Awards Luncheon at BbWorld2012<\/p>\n<p>The Blackboard Catalyst awards are now open and will recognise groups and individuals who can demonstrate that they have gone &#8216;beyond the basics&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Contact Rob Howe (rob.howe@northampton.ac.uk)\u00a0 or a member of the Learning Technology Team if you would like to make a submission<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/platforms\/learn\/resources\/community-programs\/meet-your-peers\/catalyst-awards.aspx\">2012 Blackboard Catalyst Awards<\/a> is now OPEN for submissions!<\/p>\n<p>The Blackboard Catalyst Awards honors those who push the boundaries of their educational programs and technology in order to deliver innovative and effective learning experiences. This year, we will recognize innovators in the following categories: Community Collaboration, Exemplary Courses, Innovative Development, Mobile Innovation, Staff [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","tag-nile-elearning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/nbslearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}