President of the University of Bahrain’s Honoring of Distinguished Faculty & Students in eLearning and Distance Education
DETAILS
- This honoring is organized by the eLearning center to encourage instructors and students and recognize all their time and effort in developing their e-courses on Blackboard.
- The winners will receive certificates and will be honored by the university president in a ceremony.
- The winners’ lists will be published on the eLearning center page on the university website annually.
PERIOD
- The period for collecting the data starts at the beginning of each semester (excluding summer) and ends at the last day of final exams.
- Data will be extracted from the system the week after final exams.
- The distinguished faculty and students list will be announced on the first week of next semester (first and second semester).
AWARDS
Innovative Use of Technology for Learning
Description
This certificate is awarded to the most outstanding instructor who demonstrates the highest level of involvement in implementing new technology methods within the eLearning center. This initiative aims to motivate faculty to embrace and incorporate innovative technological approaches into their teaching methodologies.
High Accessibility File Score in Blackboard Learning Management System Cours
Description
These certificates are given to the most outstanding three e-courses per college with the Highest Ally Accessibility File Score, recognizing the effort instructors are putting to make their uploaded files accessible and reminding us that Accessibility is not an option it’s a commitment.
- All university courses on Blackboard for the current semester are included in this category.
- The winners are the top three courses per each college with most Ally File Score.
- Courses must have at least 15 total files. (An estimate of a file per week).
- Ally File score must not be less than 67%. (If the Ally File Score for the top three courses doesn’t fit this criterion, then courses will not be selected)
- Depending on who created the content, the instructor or the coordinator of the winning course will be rewarded.
- The winning courses or courses with the same file content cannot be part in this category for the next three years.
- College Deans, Head of Departments, Quality Assurance Directors, and the eLearning Center Director will be excluded as they have access to Ally data.
Most Active e-Course in Blackboard Learning Management System
Description
These certificates are given to the most outstanding three e-courses per college with the Highest Ally Accessibility File Score, recognizing the effort instructors are putting to make their uploaded files accessible and reminding us that Accessibility is not an option it’s a commitment.
- All university courses on the blackboard for the current semester are included in this category.
- One course will be selected as the winning course per each college.
- Courses that are developed by the eLearning Center assistant cannot be part of this category.
- Courses that are developed by the eLearning Center assistant cannot be part of this category.
- Courses will be selected upon several criteria; the criteria were set to count instructor and student average interaction per course:
- Instructor interaction per Course (above 100)
- Students Average Interaction per course (above 80)
- Content Count (above 30)
- Assignments and Assessments Activities were not counted. (Most courses require paper base examination)
- % Average Activities by Course Content (above %80)
- The course with the top % Average Activities by Course Content is selected
- Courses that do not comply with the basic standards of instructional design will be excluded
- Data will be collected from Analytic Pyramid.
- The instructor for the winning course will be rewarded.
- The winning courses cannot be part of this category for the next three years.
- College Deans, Head of Departments, Quality Assurance Directors, and the eLearning Center Director will be excluded as they have access to Analytics data.
Most Active Instructor in Blackboard Learning Management System
Description
These certificates are given to the most outstanding active instructor on blackboard recognizes the effort and time spent by the instructor on their blackboard courses.
- All instructors with active courses per the current semester are included in this category.
- Top three instructors in the university with the most interactions on their blackboard courses will be selected in recognition for the effort and time spent on their blackboard courses.
- Data will be collected from Analytic Pyramid.
- The winners cannot be part of this category for the next three years.
- College Deans, Head of Departments, Quality Assurance Directors, and the eLearning Center Director will be excluded as they have access to Analytics data.
Most Active Student in Blackboard Learning Management System
Description
These certificates are given to the most outstanding active students on blackboard recognizes the effort and the time spent by the student on their blackboard courses.
- All students with active enrolled courses per the current semester are included in this category.
- The top three students in university with the most interactions on blackboard will be selected in recognition of the effort and time spent on their blackboard courses.
- Students must not be under probation in the Academic status on the SIS.
- Data will be collected from Analytic Pyramid.
- The winners cannot be part of this category for the next three years.
