The award is presented each August at the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning in Madison, Wisconsin.
Recipients are honored for either:
Outstanding Writer or Scholar in Distance Education or
Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education
Outstanding Scholar in Distance Education Recipients
2011 Aisha Al-Harthi
2009 Christy G. Keeler & Mark Horney
2007 Cristina Pomales-Garcia & Yili Liu
2005 Mary Annette Rose
2003 Dianne L. Conrad
2001 Krisanna Machtmes & William Asher
1999 Jeannette McDonald & Chere Campbell Gibson
1997 Whitney Rogers Bischoff
1995 Rebecca Oxford
1993 Myra Baynton
1992 Brian Dille & Michael Mezack
1991 S. Todd Stubbs & Byron B. Burnham
1990 Andrew Woudstra & Richard Powell
1989 Farhad Saba
1988 Becky Dunning
1987 Michael Moore
Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education Recipients
2010 Terry Anderson
2008 Christine Olgren
2006 Darcy Walsh Hardy
2004 Gary Miller
2002 Rory McGreal
2000 Janet Poley
1998 Donald Olcott
1996 Thomas Cyrs
1994 Becky Dunning, Marvin VanKekerix, & Lee Zaborowski
Outstanding Writer or Scholar in Distance Education
Nominees are advanced by the editors of The American Journal of Distance Education after publication in the Journal. The recipient is then selected in conjunction with reviewers from the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning and University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty.
Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education
This biennial award is open to distance education professionals who reside and practice distance education in North America and whose work exemplifies exceptional achievement in the application and advancement of distance education techniques, meanings, and understanding. A review committee representing the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will consider nominations in the Spring of even-numbered years for the award to be presented at that year's Distance Teaching & Learning Conference.