A new paperless, electronic curriculum design tool has won one of 11 worldwide “technology innovators” awards for Minnesota State University, Mankato from Campus Technology magazine.
Minnesota State Mankato’s Web-based Curriculum Design System allows faculty members and administrators to create, review, track, access and approve curricular proposals electronically, from anywhere.
Campus Technology selected the project from 349 nominations around the globe.
Other award-winners include Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon, Hofstra, Kent State, George Mason University, the University of Missouri and Rochester Institute of Technology.
The university’s new system won the magazine’s “curriculum design” award. The system replaces an antiquated, paper-based curriculum approval process with a transparent, Web-based, user-centered system.
The Web-based curriculum design system, implemented in 2008, lets all faculty and staff members electronically view and comment on proposed new or altered programs. The collaborative initiative to develop the online tool was led by Brenda Flannery, assistant vice president for academic affairs, and Brenda Hanel, lead Web application director.
“Many additional faculty and staff were critical to the development and testing of the application, as was support from campus leaders, including President Richard Davenport and vice presidents Scott Olson and Marilyn Delmont,” Flannery said.
The project was a “great example of user innovation, with the entire campus working together to develop a technology tool to meet its needs and streamline its processes,” Flannery added.
Campus Technology magazine’s annual Innovators Awards “recognize higher education institutions that take true initiative . . . to better serve the campus community via technology,” according to the monthly publication.
The magazine adds that the innovations by Minnesota State Mankato and the 10 other institutions “have taken technology investment to new heights, to the unique benefit of teaching, learning, administration and operations on campus.”
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 14,700 students and two satellite sites, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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