<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Greetings, grads - </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As you've likely already heard, our own Briju Thankachan and Ken Eminian won the 2012 PacificCorp / AECT Instructional Design and Development Competition this year. This International Competition is highly competitive and is a major instructional design event in the field. Briju has been kind enough to pass along the problem statement for next year's competition (attached here) and offered to speak with anyone who is interested in learning more about the experience. </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PacifiCorp is specifically interested in promoting collaboration and mentoring within the professional community. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The goals for this award are to:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<ul style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="margin-left:15px">improve the professional practice of design and development in adult learning and performance-improvement settings</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">promote collaboration among students, faculty, and practitioners</li><li style="margin-left:15px">mentor promising students by leaders outside their home institutions</li><li style="margin-left:15px">
recognize innovative design-and-development approaches to adult learning and performance-improvement problems</li></ul><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You can find additional information at </span><a href="http://www.aect.org/Pacificorp/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.aect.org/Pacificorp/</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> or contact Briju at </span><a href="mailto:bt284107@ohio.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">bt284107@ohio.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> with questions. It would be great to see future representation from our program in 2013! </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Jamie</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Jamie Smith<br>Graduate Faculty, Instructional Technology<br>Program Coordinator, Professional Instructional Design Certificate<br>Gladys W. & David H. Patton College of Education<br>Ohio University<br>
office: (740) 597-3370<br><br>