August 15, 2019
Dr. Karen Jones wins Wedemeyer Award
Dr. Karen Jones receives the Wedemeyer Award at the Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in August 2019.
Dr. Karen Jones won the Mildred B. & Charles A. Wedemeyer Award at the 35th annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
Jones received the award for her paper, titled “Finding the Customers: Challenges and Experiences Marketing K-12 Full-time Virtual Schools.” According to the abstract, the paper “examines marketing patterns for non-profit virtual schools, including how students find out about virtual schools, the ways in which school leaders market their schools, and changes reported in schools’ marketing and recruitment needs and strategies.”
“I am proud to share this honor with my late colleague, Dr. Regina Figueiredo-Brown,” Jones said.
The Wedemeyer Award has honored the distinguished contributions to the scholarship and practice of distance education since 1987. Winners are evaluated on the following criteria: contributions to the practice of distance education; pedagogical soundness of programs and practices; ties to extant knowledge and research; ongoing evaluation of programs and practice; efforts to enhance the practice of others; transfer of practice innovations to others; demonstrated benefits in terms of innovation approaches to teaching, learning, and communication in distance education; impact of excellence in practice with demonstrated regional, national, or internation reach; and vision of distance education practice in the future.
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