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Continuing Education Organizations Honor K-State with National Awards
October 24, 2007
A Kansas State University distance education program and distance education technology have received national awards from two continuing education organizations.
The Association for Continuing Higher Education awarded its 2007 Distinguished Credit Award to K-State's comparative food and agriculture systems course, AGEC 710. The class is offered through the K-State department of agricultural economics and the Division of Continuing Education. It is taught by five international professors and gives students an understanding of international agriculture.
The association also honored K-State with its Creative Use of Technology Award for the ExpanSIS student information system. ExpanSIS is a multi-institutional student information system developed jointly by the Institute for Academic Alliances and the K-State office of mediated education. It was first used by the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance. The system provides a consortium of universities with access to needed student data, including course scheduling and mapping, registration, enrollment, grades, reports, contact information, and student tracking.
Both awards will be presented Monday, Oct. 29, at the Association for Continuing Higher Education's 69th annual conference in Roanoke, Va.
K-State's ExpanSIS system also received the 2007 Outstanding Work Award from the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications. The award will be presented at the cooperative's 19th annual conference, Nov. 7-10, in Atlanta, Ga. The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications is a unit of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which provides technology to e-learners for use in higher education.
To learn more about K-State's award-winning distance education programs and technology, contact the Division of Continuing Education at 1-800-622-2578 or visit the Web site at http://www.dce.k-state.edu
- Source: Melinda Sinn, 785-532-5888, sinnpio@k-state.edu
- News release prepared by: Bethany Fief, 785-532-5888, bethanyf@k-state.edu
- K-State Media Relations
