<b id="internal-source-marker_0.016462368657812476" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please congratulate your colleagues! Today, Briju Thankachan and Ken </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eminian </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">won the 2012 PacificCorp / AECT Instructional Design and Development Competition. This International Competition is highly competitive and is a major instructional design event in the field. PacificCorp has held this competition for nine years and the winners represent the very best graduate programs in the world. PacificCorp has made a donation to Ohio University in recognition of Briju and Ken’s achievement. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br><a href="http://www.pacificorp.com/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PacifiCorp</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is specifically interested in promoting collaboration and mentoring within the professional community.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The goals for this award are to:</span><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">improve the professional practice of design and development in adult learning and performance-improvement settings;</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">promote collaboration among students, faculty, and practitioners;</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">mentor promising students by leaders outside their home institutions; and,</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">recognize innovative design-and-development approaches to adult learning and performance-improvement problems.</span></li>
</ul></b><div><br></div>-- <br><div>David Richard Moore</div>Associate Professor, Instructional Technology<br><div>Department Chair, Educational Studies<br>Patton College of Education and Human Services<br>Ohio University<br>
321B McCracken Hall, Athens OH 45701</div><div>740 597 1322 (O)<br><a href="mailto:moored3@ohio.edu" target="_blank">moored3@ohio.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.ohio.edu/people/moored3/" target="_blank">http://www.ohio.edu/people/moored3/</a></div>
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