University System of Ohio Opportunities

Making Textbooks More Affordable

2010 Faculty Innovator Award Nomination Form

Please complete and submit this form no later than 5 p.m. on February 15, 2010.

Nomination Process and Guidelines

Candidates who are full-time, part-time or adjunct faculty on any University System of Ohio campus (university, regional branch campus, community college, or adult career technical education center) can be nominated by other faculty, students, or administrators. This form requires those making the nominations must include a 500-word description of the innovation(s), a description of the amount of student out-of pocket-cost savings, an active URL to access the digital resource(s) created, and a statement about the educational impact(s) of the innovation. A faculty member may receive the Award only once, and may not hold an administrative position above the rank of chair. Faculty who receive the Award are expected to provide open access to the resources they have created and provide information about the educational innovation to share statewide.

Nominations must be received electronically no later than 5 p.m. on February 15, 2010. Nominations must be submitted using this form, or by video upload to http://OhioTextbookHQ.ning.com (videos may be up to 100MB in size in .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .avi, .wmv, .3gp, and .3g2 file formats).

Review Process

A committee of five Ohio and national experts will review the nominations and make award recommendations to the Chancellor by March 15, 2010. The Chancellor will announce the award recipients soon after.

Nomination Form

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Nominee Information
Name*:
Institution*:
Title*:
Nominee e-mail Address*:
Nominee phone*:
School mailing address*:
City*:
State*:
ZIP code*:

Nominator Information
Name*:
Institution/Organization:
Title:
Nominator e-mail address*:
Nominator phone*:
Mailing address*:
City*:
State*:
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Relationship to Nominee*:

Innovation Information
Description of Innovation*: (500 words or fewer): Please include the type of digital resources created and how their use contributed to course/program goals and student learning. Please also share a URL to access these resources, and describe additional courses or departments that could utilize them, if any.
Course(s) in which innovation has been used/applied and when course/s were offered*:
Total number of students enrolled in the course/s in which innovation was used:
Cost-savings per student and any related (perhaps even unexpected) cost-savings that were achieved by the department, college or university: