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The President of COL will appoint a three-member judging panel for each award category. Only one of the three adjudicators will be a member of the Staff or Board of COL.
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Only complete entries will be considered by the judging panels.
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The panels reserve the right not to make awards in one or more categories and will not exceed the maximum number of awards stated for each category.
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Except for the award recipients, no prior notification of the adjudication results will be made.
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The judging panels' decisions will be final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the selection process. Appeals will not be entertained.
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All submissions (including courseware) for consideration by the judging panel will not be returned. They will be kept by COL as exemplars of good practice.
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COL reserves the right to demonstrate the materials selected for an award with due acknowledgement to the organisations/institutions.
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We regret that we will not be able to respond to requests on the status of your submission.
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COL will not normally cover travel and accommodation costs for attendance at the Forum and presentation ceremony, except for the recipients of the Distance Learning Experience Awards.
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The awards will be presented at the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (London, 13-17 July 2008) www.col.org/pcf5
