Kansas State University

Darcy Walsh Hardy’s presentation this Thursday will be videotaped and available online at axioconference.org for viewing by the first week of October. A nationally known online education expert, Hardy will present “Sometimes Good is Good Enough – Sometimes It’s Not” at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Flint Hills Room of the K-State Student Union. This event is free and open to the public. During this interactive session, she will discuss the need for:

• Applying nationally recognized instructional design standards to fully online and hybrid courses
• Accountability in the online classroom
• Training and support to develop the highest quality online courses possible

Registration is not required to attend this presentation (which is part of the third annual Axio Learning Community Meeting and Conference). Questions about the event should be sent to Amanda Tross,  atross@k-state.edu, 785-532-4370.

Hardy’s awards and achievements (see more in last week’s article)

• She serves as Chair Emerita with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), where she has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1999, is a past president, and is responsible for founding the USDLA International Forum for Women in E-Learning (IFWE).
• She received the WCET Richard Jonsen award (2005) for “long-standing willingness to nurture and assist others in the distance learning community, significant contribution to the field, and innovative service to distance learning students.”
• Her most recent publication, Dancing on the Glass Ceiling: Women, Leadership and Technology, which she co-edited with Don Olcott, received the 2005 Charles Wedemeyer Publication Award from UCEA.
• In 2003, she received the Gayle B. Childs Award from UCEA for “exemplary long-term leadership, scholarship, and applied contributions to the field of continuing and distance learning.”