Roger Mills Award
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The Roger Mills Award is for innovation in learning and teaching with a special emphasis on distance education and e-learning.
About the award
Awarded each year, to a University of London federation programme/course, the prize recognises innovation in digital learning and teaching, pedagogy, and/or assessment. The Prize committee considers value, impact and transferability in identifying the winning application. The winning team/individual present their work at the CODE Annual Research in Distance Education conference.
The award is sponsored by the Centre for Online and Distance Education, and is named in memory of Roger Mills, longstanding and well-loved former Fellow of the Centre for Online and Distance Education and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Open University UK.
Roger made a major contribution to the support of innovation in learning and teaching in the University of London through his contribution to projects and academic policy development. This prize commemorates his contribution.
Roger Mills award winners 2024
Award winners and nominees
| 2024 Award | Topic | Institution | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Fostering Students’ Personal, Career and Professional Development through Delivery of an Online Mentorship Programme | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University of Ghana School of Public Health | Etheldreda Mbivnjo and Juliana Yartey Enos |
| Joint runner up | Innovating digital and transnational pedagogy in digital health – co-creation of an online programme between UK and Egypt | Queen Mary University of London and Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | Chie Adachi |
| Joint runner up | AI-powered content optimisation for student success and federation member enablement | University of London and Goldsmiths, University of London | Sarah Eden |
| Commended | MSc in Cyber Security programme | Royal Holloway and at University of London | Fauzia Idrees Abro |
| Commended | Digital learning for Renaissance languages and palaeography | Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London | Matthew Coneys and Lucy Nicholas |
| Commended | Blended Learning in Graduate Entry Medicine | Queen Mary University of London | Pedro Elston |
| 2023 Award | Topic | Institution | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
Winner
| Team Based Learning in Psychology – from online to hybrid approaches | KCL | James Findon, Francesca Cotier |
| Commended | Development of computational thinking skills on Codio learning platform on MSc Computer Science programme | Birkbeck | Larissa Grice |
| Commended | Making it personal: Embedding the elements of lecturer’s identity into module design as a method of student engagement | RHUL | Eranova Mariya |
| Commended | Enhancing access by distance learning students to academic content: OpenAthens Single Sign-On (SSO) | University of London | Sandra Tury |
| Commended | Enabling climate action through online pedagogy | SOAS | Tom Tanner |
| Commended | Innovative Integration in the BSc Psychology | KCL and University of London | Anna Armstrong |
| Commended | Supporting Students through Learning Mentor Groups on the Infectious Diseases MSc Programme at LSHTM – , | LSHTM | Anita Skinner |
| 2022 Award | Topic | Institution | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
Winner
| Dissection at Distance: Interactive Live-Streaming of Practical Anatomy via MS Teams | RVC | Sarah Channon, Sarah Nicoll, Andrew Crook, Emma Boardman, Stephen Frean, Saira Khurshid Akhtar, Emma Driver, Michael Frill, William Stewart, Thomas Burt, Renato Previdelli, Raymond Macharia |
| Commended | Bayes Digital Learning | City University of London | Bayes Digital Learning Team |
| Commended | Professional Graduate Certificate (PGCE): Teacher Development | UCL | Kim Insley |
| Commended | Fostering interdisciplinary researchers: PhD training and support at SOAS | SOAS | Yenn Lee |
| Commended | Enhancing doctoral supervision in UCL IOE and beyond | UCL | Jennie Golding |
| 2021 Award | Topic | Institution | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Digital Skills Awareness courses for students and staff | Bloomsbury Learning Exchange | Sarah Sherman, Nancy Weitz |
| Commended | Using escape room approaches to support personal development planning at a distance | QMUL | Faith Nightingale |
| Commended | Reimagining the BSc Business Administration Programme | RHUL | Paul Dudley |
| Commended | Innovation in action: From institutional emergency response programme to ‘blended by design’ future | UCL | Sam Smidt, Jo Stroud, Martin Compton |
| 2020 Award | Topic | Institution | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joint Winner | Developing a blended programme of online careers and employability support for University of London distance education students | University of London Careers Group | Laura Brammar |
| Joint Winner | Designing and running a fully online Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education | Centre for Online and Distance Education, University of London | Gwyneth Hughes |
| Commended | Development, evaluation and transfer of an innovative alumni-peer mentorship scheme for MSc students undertaking a research project via distance learning | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Anna Foss |
| Commended | Facilitating coding practice in the context of online teaching on an undergraduate computing degree | Goldsmiths, University of London | Simon Katan Edward Anstead |
| 2019 Award | Topic | Institution | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Students with Diverse Educational Backgrounds: Special Support for Online Learning in the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies | School of Advanced Study | Nicolas Maple |
| Commended | Development of an innovative alumni mentorship scheme for Public Health MSc students undertaking a research project via distance learning | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Anna Foss |
| Commended | Design of UoL Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education | Centre for Online and Distance Education and University of London | Gwyneth Hughes |
| Commended | Innovative practice: Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare, the world’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the Shakespeare Authorship question | Goldsmiths, University of London | Ros Barber |
| Commended | Global MBA Programme Actions/ Initiatives from April 2018 to end of January 2019 | University of London | Dimitrios Koufopoulos |
| 2018 Award | Topic | Institution | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joint winner | Get Interactive: Practical Teaching with Technology - Massive Online open course | BLE | Sarah Sherman |
| Joint winner | Formative Assessment in Undergraduate Laws Distance Education programmes | UoL Laws | Patricia McKellar |
| Commended | Opening up LSE to EMFSS students | LSE | Steve Bond |
| Commended | Employability in teacher education (input into the PG Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) | UoL Careers Group | Laura Brammar |
| Commended | Postgraduate Laws | UCL | Helen Xanthaki |
| Commended | Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management International Programme | Birkbeck | Duncan Jackson |
| Commended | Philosophy Programme Seminars | Birkbeck | Florian Steinberger |
| Commended | Icarus Simulation in the Masters in Professional Accountancy | UCL | Lynsie Chew |
| Commended | Fostering an online community of students and professionals in the refugee and forced migration field | School of Advanced Study | Sarah Singer |