Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 AAOU Paper Awards! Prior to the conference, full papers submitted for the conference were evaluated and shortlisted by the Conference Programme Committee. The Adjudication Committees for the Best Paper Award and the Best Practice Award chose six finalists (per award) for an oral presentation. After assessing the presentations of the authors of these papers, three winners for each of the awards were selected. These six winners, and the three winners of the Young Innovator Award (Gold Medal and two Silver Medals) chosen previously, were presented with their awards and cash incentives at the closing ceremony of the conference. The contributions of all winners and authors of papers are highly appreciated.

AWARDEES

Best Paper Award

• Gold Medal:
  A Comparative Study of Knowledge and Use of Blooms’ Digital Taxonomy by Teachers and Students in Virtual and Conventional University
  Hina Amin and Munawar Sultana Mirza
  Virtual University of Pakistan

• Silver Medal:
  Issues and Challenges faced by Online Higher Education Teachers
  Darakhshan Muslim and Munawar Sultana Mirza
  Virtual University of Pakistan

• Silver Medal:
  Research Supervision in Distance Learning: Issues and Challenges
  Muhammad Zaheer and Saba Munir
  Virtual University of Pakistan

Best Practice Award

• Gold Medal:
  Transforming Online Teaching & Learning In ODL Environment Through Application Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  Nantha Kumar Subramaniam
  Open University of Malaysia

• Silver Medal:
  Computational Chemistry as Virtual Laboratory in Open and Distance Learning
  Tomokazu Yasuike
  The Open University of Japan

• Silver Medal:
  Cyber Security and Digital Forensics as a Preventive and Repressive Step to Overcome Cheating in Online Tutorials
  M Jeffri Arlinandes Chandra, Purwaningdyah Murti Wahyuni, and Herry Novrianda
  Universitas Terbuka

Young Innovator Award

• Silver Medal:
  Golden: Geospatial Model For Distance Education
  Kamran Mir
  Allama Iqbal Open University

ADJUDICATION COMMITTEE

Best Paper Award

• Chair: Dr. Grace Alfonso (Former Chancellor, University of the Philippines Open University)
• Member: Dr. Li Kam-Cheong (Director, University Research Centre, The Open University of Hong Kong)
• Member: Dr. Alexander Flor (Dean, Faculty of Information and Communication Studies, University of the Philippines Open University)
• Member: Prof. Samuel Anbahan Ariadurai (Vice Chancellor, The Open University Sri Lanka)
• Member: Dr. Melinda F. Lumanta (Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of the Philippines Open University)

Best Practice Award

• Chair: Dr. Jean Saludadez (Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, University of the Philippines Open University)
• Member: Dr. Andy Liew Teik Kooi (Registrar & Director of Quality Assurance and External Relations, Wawasan Open University)
• Member: Dr. Kunchon Jeotee (Assistant Professor, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University)
• Member: Dr. Zahid Majeed (Vice Chancellor, Allama Iqbal Open University)

Young Innovator Award

• Chair: Prof. Tsuneo Yamada (Professor, Center for ICT and Distance Education, The Open University of Japan)
• Member: Prof Daryono Daryono, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Science of Universitas Terbuka
• Member: Dr. Ria Mae Borromeo, Director of the Information and Communication Technology Development Office (ICTDO), University of the Philippines Open University