WINONA, Minn. — During a summer user conference, Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture web service for higher education, announced that Dr. Jeffrey Highland of Saint Mary’s University was one of the winners of the Tegrity Innovation Awards Program. This program recognizes outstanding achievements in higher education technology on campuses throughout the United States.
Honorees were chosen from a broad spectrum of colleges and universities and were honored at a special awards luncheon in San Francisco. Awards were presented to both individuals and institutions, recognizing performance milestones achieved during the 2008-2009 academic year.
Dr. Highland, who retired this summer as SMU’s provost, received the President’s Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership and advancement of the student-centered vision of Saint Mary’s, which reported 6,307 new faculty recordings during the past year, close to 40,000 student views and more than 10,000 student-viewing hours.
Other winners of the 2008 Tegrity Innovation Awards include:
• Dr. Sadie Gregory of Coppin State University, Provost Award, for her contributions in advocating Tegrity lecture capture adoption campus-wide at an institution that has demonstrated exceptional usage during the 2008-2009 academic year.
• Mike Gibson of Athens State University, Customer Champion Award, for consistently presenting the “voice of the customer” throughout the previous year, contributing his time and expertise to influence and enhance the quality of Tegrity offerings.
• Dallas Community College District (DCCD), Shared Vision Award, presented annually to the institution achieving the widest expansion during the previous academic year, deploying across seven campuses.
• University of Louisville, Rapid Response Award, awarded annually to the customer that has implemented Tegrity, trained their faculty and made them fully operational in the shortest period of time during the previous academic year.
• University of Central Florida, logging 76,323 hours of student viewing hours, the Student Achievement Award, presented annually to the Tegrity client that demonstrates outstanding success by recording the highest total volume of student views during the previous year.
• University of Alabama, the Outcomes Assessment Award, for demonstrating through firsthand research Tegrity’s quantified impact on student outcomes during the previous academic year, with 84 percent of students surveyed reporting that Tegrity positively impacted their learning and 61 percent of students reporting grade improvement.
• Fordham University Law School, the Innovator’s Award, which recognizes an institution that has been a catalyst for positive change on campus by finding innovative new uses for Tegrity on campus.
Tegrity Campus 2.0 makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student. With patented Tegrity “search anything” technology, students instantly recall key class moments for replay online, or on iPods and mobile devices.
