DSI CLEAR Outstanding Online Course Award

The DSI CLEAR Outstanding Online Course Award is a University-wide program to recognize excellence in the design of online courses and the facilitation of the instructional experience using educational technology. The Outstanding Online Course Award recipient receives the distinction of being recognized that their online course has been deemed outstanding based on nationally recognized standards for excellence in online course design. The award also provides recipients with a trophy and monetary stipend.

Nominations

We are once again extending the opportunity to acknowledge exceptional online design and pedagogy from our UNT teaching community. This year, we intend to highlight faculty who have participated in our Online Course Development process and have successfully offered a newly designed course for the first time in the 2023‑24 academic year.

To be eligible for the 2024‑2025 award:

The course must have been developed by the nominee as part of a DSI CLEAR Online Course Development (OCDev or OCDev+) cohort.
The course must have been delivered to students for the first time in either the Fall 2023, Spring 2024, or Summer 2024 semesters.

Note: The course designer does not need to be the same individual who taught the course, provided the course was successfully delivered to students.

If you would like to nominate yourself or a colleague, please email Benjamin.Nye@unt.edu by November 22^nd. Include the nominee's name, the course name, and a link to the course in Canvas or Coursera.

Award presentations will take place during the Spring 2025 Salute to Faculty Excellence Awards Celebration.

Awards will include:

$1500 (taxable award) and a trophy will be awarded to each of two Outstanding Course Award recipients.
The recipients will both be recognized at the Spring 2025 Salute to Faculty Excellence Awards Celebration, and their names will be included on a perpetual award plaque displayed in the Center for Learning Experimentation, Application, and Research.

We want to thank all our online faculty who strive to make online learning at UNT an exceptional experience. We look forward to receiving your nominations soon!

Past Winners

2024 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Coursera
Dr. Dexter Purnell
MKGT 3650: Foundations of Marketing Practice

2024 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Canvas
Dr. Kathryne Beebe
HIST 4221: Early Modern Europe and the World

2024 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Canvas
Dr. Jae Webb
MGMT 5710: Seminar in Business Ethics & Social Responsibility

2023 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Coursera
Dr. Kathryn Raign
TECM 1700: Professional Writing in the Workplace

2023 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Coursera
Dr. Marc Grether
MATH 1180: College Math for Business Economics

2023 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Canvas
Dr. LeAnn Boyce
ADTA 5240: Harvesting, Storing, and Retrieving Data

2022 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Coursera
Dr. Susan Watson
Fundamentals of Inquiry and Discovery

2022 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award in Canvas
Dr. Kara Fulton
Archaeological Science

2021 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Allyson Packer

2020 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Roxanne Long

2019 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Brian Lain
The Zombie as Rhetorical Figure

2019 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Award
Alexandra Veselka-Bush
Human Sexuality

2018 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Frances Perkins
Media Arts

2018 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Gayle Prybutok
Health Services Administration

2017 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Gayle Prybutok
Health Services Administration

2017 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Art and Business

2016 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Lisa Henry
Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

2016 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Judi Bradetich
Child Development

2015 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Stephen Garretson
Family, School and Community

2015 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Royce George
Theories of Organizational Development and Reform

2014 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Nancy Boyd Lillie
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

2014 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Manjula Salimath
International Management Perspectives

2013 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Elizabeth Arnold
Creating Consumer Experiences

2013 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Linda Stromberg
Instructional Leadership

2012 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Rossana Boyd
Pedagogy for English as a Second Language for EC-12 classrooms

2012 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Nicole Dash
Collective Behavior

2011 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Smita Mehta
Classroom and Behavior Management

2011 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Lou Pelton
Culture and Consumption

2010 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Susan Dadres
Economic Concepts

2010 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Kris Chesky
Occupational Health: Lessons from Music

2010 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Art History Survey I

2009 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Smita Mehta
Educational Aspects of Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities

2009 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Anat Barnir
E-Management

2009 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Susan Dadres
Principles of Macroeconomics

2009 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Lynn Johnson
Organizational Behavior

2008 Blackboard Exemplary Course
Dr. Tracey Gau
Masterpieces of World Literature from the Ancients Through the Early Renaissance

2007 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Derrick D’Souza
International Management

2007 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Nathan Cottle
Human Development

2007 Exemplary Online Course Designer Award
Dr. Becky Glover
Human Development

2007 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Susan Dadres
Economic Concepts

2007 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Dr. Lee Hughes
Principles of Biology I

2006 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Bob Insley and Michael Sexton
Communicating in Business

2005 Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award
Dr. Elizabeth Figa
Storytelling for Information Professionals

2005 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
2005 WebCT Exemplary Course
Dr. Patricia Cukor-Avila and
Dr. Shobhana Chelliah
General Linguistics, Principles of Language Study (two courses)

2005 Exemplary Online Teacher & Course Designer Award
Jerry Dickenson
Resort and Club Management

2005 Exemplary Online Course Designer Award
Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Art Appreciation