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The EUNIS Dørup E–learning Award was founded in commemoration of former member of the EUNIS Board of Directors, Jens Dørup. The award is given for the outstanding and innovative application of information technology (IT) in an educational setting.

Judging Criteria

The award will go to an innovative way of using existing or new information technologies to enhance learning. The project must combine innovation, pedagogy and technology as key factors for creating more effective and engaging learning. Evidence to show the benefits will be essential.

Submissions for the Dørup E–learning Award will be judged by the following 4 criteria:

Innovation

An implementation of the project must have taken place and the ways in which it is innovative and different from other e–learning implementations should be described.

Pedagogy

The project must clearly demonstrate the involvement of a pedagogical idea or educational objectives. The pedagogical foundation must be presented as well as how the IT–enhanced learning activities are aligned with or connected to other learning activities.

Technology

The information technology/technologies used can be proprietary, open source, a web 2.0/social software application or self–developed but the choice of technology must be explained in terms of how this technology gives added value to the specific teaching and learning activities.

Usefulness and benefits of the innovation

Applicants must submit some form of evidence of the benefits. Benefits might include improvements in following areas (although other types of benefits will be considered): Recruitment and Retention; Skills and Employability; Student Achievement; Widening Participation and Social Justice; Support for students with Special Needs. Types of evidence to show the benefits have been achieved might include: case studies; exam results; internal and external evaluations; student feedback and focus groups; system logs or other statistics and anecdotal evidence from both students and staff.

Rules for submission

The submitter’s organisation must be a member of EUNIS.
The submitter or a member of the team involved must be able to participate in the annual EUNIS congress.
You should only submit a project that has been entered in previous years if there have been significant developments since your last paper.

Submission procedure and deadlines for 2010

In order to enter for the 2010 Award you should submit a paper for the conference using the standard conference procedure: Submission and deadlines.

You should also tick the box to say that you wish to be entered for the Dørup Award.

If your paper is accepted for the conference via the peer review process you will then be entered into the judging for the Dørup Award.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to present their papers in a special Dørup Award session where the winner will be announced.

Shortlisted candidates will be notified before the early bird registration deadline of 15 May 2010.

Candidates who have had their papers accepted but who are not shortlisted for the Award will have their papers timetabled in other e–Learning themed sessions throughout the programme.

All abstracts will be published in the Congress Book of Abstracts

Award

The award is not a monetary award, but the winner of the award will have his/her conference fee refunded by EUNIS and will receive a special certificate.

Tips from the judges

The judges will find it helpful if you structure your paper so that the judging criteria are clearly addressed. You are welcome to use the criteria as headings.

We are particularly interested in the use of technology to support active engagement of learners. If your paper concerns a learning object or learning platform you should specify the types of activities developed around this.

We are interested in the innovative use of technology. You may enter a paper about a well–established technology so long as you are using it in an innovative way.