ABOUT MAN@eLA Awards:
The MERLOT Africa Network (MAN) and its network of partners present its 2009 International MAN@eLA Awards for Exemplary Open Education Resources (OER)Practices for Development. These prestigious awards are presented annually to organizations, individuals, online educational resources and authoring software tools dedicated to advancing development in Africa, and recognize three categories of excellence: (1) Leadership Award to an individual or group that has made significant advances in the understanding of the issues or innovations surrounding OER and the OER Movement applied to development issues, (2) Virtual Laboratory Award to exemplary teaching and learning resources that promote inquiry-based/discovery learning, internationalization (such as multi-lingual accessibility) and usability, (3) Software for OER Content Authoring Award (This may be a free or lower cost/affordable proprietary software. Please see the MANeLA Winners 2008 (link on the top right of this page).
CALL FOR NOMINATION:
The MAN@eLA 2009 Co-chairs and Committees wish to receive nominations for the following categories:
CATEGORY 1: Individuals,Community of Practices (CP) or Common Interest Groups
that have made significant advances in the understanding of the issues or innovations surrounding OER. (See 2008 Winner as example)
CATEGORY 2: High-quality Interactive Virtual Laboratory Resource that promote inquiry and discovery learning. (See 2008 Winner as example)
CATEGORY 3: Free Software for OER Content Authoring and/or course management and deployment that enables anyone to design learning resources and/or online courses and/or training modules. (See 2008 Winner below as example)
Nominations may come from any part of the world. Preference will be given to OER activities within the past two years. The Awards will be presented during the 4th eLearning Africa Conference to be held in Dakar, Senegal, on May 28-30, 2009.
HOW TO NOMINATE A CANDIDATE:
SUBMIT NOMINATIONS ONLINE USING OUR NOMINATION FORM (French/english form)
You can submit your Award Entry using our online nomination form. This is the preferred method of submission. Please click on the button below to access the nomination forms.
ACCESS NOMINATION FORM
INTERNATIONAL CO-CHAIRS - MAN@eLA 2009:
We acknowledge and recognize with gratitude the members of the members of the 2009-International MANeLA Award Chairs of the Selection Committee - Our International Co-Chairs include Laura Franklin (Northern Virginia Community College - USA) - Geneviève Puiségur-Pouchin (Director of Project Reli@ and Coordinator of the French Educators' House - FRANCE) - Alioune M. DIOUF (
CAERENAD, Fastef
Université Cheikh Anta Diop - Dakar, Senegal - West Africa) - Jibril Touzi (Trainings Officer - University agency of French-speaking – Bujumbura, Burundi - East Africa) - Arif Jina (Globalization and internationalization, University of Ottawa, Canada), Michele Dean (Open university of UK - England) and Moustapha Diack (Southern University Baton Rouge, LA - USA & Director MERLOT Africa Network).
We graciously thank, Mr. Patrick Leblanc, Doctoral student, SMED/ department Southern University , for the database creation and the support of MAN@eLA2009. And, Marsha Evans, Doctoral student, SMED/ department Southern University ,for proofing and content ehancement.
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