Online Program Gets National Spotlight
Daytona Beach, Fla., July 31, 2008 – Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of e-Education software applications and services, presented Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Online division with a 2008 Exemplary Course Award. Embry-Riddle is recognized as the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education and delivers its online courses through the Blackboard platform.
The Exemplary Course Awards are part of Blackboard’s Greenhouse Program and recognize excellence in online education as evaluated through a comprehensive rubric. Embry-Riddle’s template-based online course design process was recognized with the selection of ENGL 221 Technical Report Writing.
Dr. Thomas Cavanagh, director of course design and production for Worldwide Online, accepted the award at the 2008 Blackboard World Conference in Las Vegas, Nev., on behalf of the Worldwide Online production and delivery team.
The Blackboard award is the second national award garnered by Worldwide Online this year. Worldwide Online’s WEAX 201 Meteorology I course was presented with the 2008 Distinguished Distance Learning Course award by the University Continuing Education Association.
“Receiving two prestigious national awards in the same year is a testament to the quality, innovation, and creativity found in Worldwide Online courses,” said Marty Smith, chancellor of Embry-Riddle Worldwide. “This recognition by Blackboard is validation of our commitment to offer technologically rich and instructionally effective courses to students all over the world.”
The Worldwide Online campus of Embry-Riddle is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Fla., and provides services to over 3,000 students across the country and around the world. The campus offers more than 180 courses online with 11 undergraduate terms and six graduate terms per year. Embry-Riddle programs are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
Worldwide Online offers an affordable, flexible education tailored to the achievement of certificate, undergraduate, and graduate degree programs. For more information on available programs and tuition cost, contact the Worldwide Online campus staff at (800) 359-3728 or email worldwide.online.recruitment@erau.edu. Visit the Worldwide Online Web site at www.embryriddle.edu/ec/dleo.
Embry-Riddle Worldwide began in 1970 and has become one of the largest off-campus, regionally accredited colleges in the United States, with over 45,000 alumni. The Worldwide organization educates more than 27,000 students through classroom, online, or hybrid undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., Worldwide at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.