OAKLAND, Calif. & NEWCASTLE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Turnitin announced the winners of the 2016 Turnitin Global Innovation Awards. The award program recognizes educators, technology administrators and students from around the world who have demonstrated a commitment to academic integrity and excellence in learning through the innovative and effective use of Turnitin and other educational approaches. Click to Tweet.
See All 2016 Turnitin Global Innovation Award Winners: http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/global-innovation-awards
An international panel of academics and previous winners selected this year’s winners from a record 500 nominations from nearly 50 countries. They chose winners across seven global regions who excel in one of three categories: academic integrity, student engagement, and writing improvement.
Two new awards added this year include the Writing Improvement Award, with educators and institutions nominating students showing substantial improvement in academic writing. The other, the Global Innovator Award, recognizes one overall winner and champion of best practices for academic integrity and student engagement through the use of Turnitin in training, professional development, support, and collaboration.
This year’s Global Innovator Award winner is Princewill Odum, Turnitin administrator and Lecturer in Remote Sensing & GIS from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. The judges selected Odum for his passion and proactive, practical approach to training and raising awareness around academic integrity and scholarly writing conventions.
Upon winning, Odum said, “I was in an active Turnitin training session for faculty members when I found out about the award. The participants in the training session shared in my joy with a standing ovation and applause.”
He is currently working toward making the University of Calabar the first university in Nigeria to become a member of the International Center for Academic Integrity. “For our students, Turnitin is a gauge, a meter. They use it to check if their work is something to be proud of. That gives them good joy to know that their work is of an international standard,” he said.
As this year’s Global Innovator, Odum is invited to be a Turnitin guest at the WRITEconference in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2017, which will focus on innovations in education and how technology is shaping writing, research, and academic integrity.
“We are proud to support and partner with so many enthusiastic, talented, and dedicated education leaders around the world,” said Gill Rowell, education manager at Turnitin. “With even more nominations this year, of a consistently high quality, our judges had a difficult time choosing the winners amongst hundreds of excellent submissions.”
Tasnim Saleh, academic coordinator at the SAE Institute in Dubai and one of this year’s judges and last year’s Student Engagement Award winner, said, “The Global Innovation Awards empower teachers and academics and serve as a motivation to innovate in research on academic integrity. The Awards give educators the opportunity to be recognized globally for their work in improving students' writing and referencing skills.”
Winners are listed by region and award category below. See the Global Innovation Awards for individual stories and a full award list, including Honorable Mentions.
Overall Global Innovator
Princewill Odum, University
of Calabar, Nigeria (Winner)
Ann Rogerson, University of
Wollongong, Australia (Runner-up)
Africa & Middle East
Princewill Odum, University
of Calabar, Nigeria (Academic Integrity Award)
Eva Sujee, St
Mary's Diocesan School for Girls, South Africa (Student Engagement Award)
Fouzia
Begum, Middlesex University, UAE (Writing Improvement Award)
Asia
Kashif Karim, Aga Khan University Hospital,
Pakistan (Academic Integrity Award)
Alex Banks, Handong Global
University, South Korea (Student Engagement Award)
Australia & New Zealand, Higher Education
Ann Rogerson,
University of Wollongong, Australia (Academic Integrity Award)
Kathie
Ardzejewska, University of Notre Dame, Australia (Student
Engagement Award)
Australia & New Zealand, Secondary & Further Education
Des
Waters, Palmerston North Boys’ High School, New Zealand (Academic
Integrity Award)
Ben Edwards, St Michael’s College,
Australia (Student Engagement Award)
Europe
Javier Belda, Universidad Católica San Antonio
de Murcia, Spain (Academic Integrity Award)
Aurora
Martínez-Martínez, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja & Universidad
Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain (Student Engagement Award)
Boitumelo
Olga Mano, World Maritime University, Sweden (Writing Improvement Award)
Latin America & Caribbean
Dariel Diaz Arce, Unidad
Educativa Santana-Cuenca, Ecuador (Academic Integrity Award)
Elisa
Montoya Cantoral, TECSUP, Peru (Student Engagement Award)
Reider
Hernández Huanca, TECSUP, Peru (Writing Improvement Award)
North America, Higher Education
Anthony Iodice and Center
for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching staff, Iona College, New York
(Academic Integrity Award)
Jarmese Sherrod, University of Maryland
University College, Maryland and Richland Community College, Illinois
(Student Engagement Award)
North America, K12
Marye Smith, Hampton High School, Georgia
(Academic Integrity Award)
Lisa Wathen, Nicolet High School,
Wisconsin (Student Engagement Award)
Obehi Uadiale, Hampton High
School, Georgia (Writing Improvement Award)
United Kingdom, Higher Education
Nicole Brown, UCL
Institute of Education, London (Academic Integrity Award)
Joe
Gazdula, University of Bolton, Bolton (Student Engagement Award)
United Kingdom, Secondary & Further Education
John
Hindmarsh, Westminster Kingsway College, London (Academic Integrity
Award)
Madihah Julani, Leyton Sixth Form College, London
(Student Engagement Award)
Additional resources and images for the media at: http://prez.ly/Dgv.
About Turnitin
Turnitin is revolutionizing the experience of writing to learn. Turnitin’s formative feedback and originality checking services promote critical thinking, ensure academic integrity, and help students improve their writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 140 countries. Backed by Insight Venture Partners, GIC, Norwest Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital and Georgian Partners, Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K.; Utrecht, Netherlands; Seoul, South Korea; and Melbourne, Australia. @Turnitin
