David Sadler, Director (Networks) at the Higher Education Academy, said: "The Higher Education Academy has been pleased to support eTutor of the Year award for several years, and we are delighted that the award has helped to raise the profile of eTutoring as another way of supporting the student learning experience.


The competition has grown in importance, with the quality and number of entries increasing year on year since it was first launched in 2002. Past winners, for instance, have included the team responsible for one of the UK's longest running online programmes in International Primary Health Care and a team who delivered a course through live video-audio systems to academics at the Islamic University of Gaza."

"We now feel the time is right to hand over responsibility for the running of the award to our partners in ALT, who will be launching a new Learning Technologist of the Year award. The Academy will continue to stimulate and support eLearning developments across the HE sector, for example through the Benchmarking and Pathfinder Programmes and the new eLearning Research Observatory through our Subject Centre network, and by working closely with partner organisations such as ALT, JISC and HEFCE."

The award will be judged by a panel chaired by Gilly Salmon, Professor of eLearning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester. It will be presented in Nottingham at the ALT conference on 5 September 2007, by Dr Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google.