Colleagues, you might think that modesty would prevent me from posting this - not so.<br /><br />I am pleased to report that our Sanskrit program has just been awarded the Australian National University's Vice-Chancellor's 2012 Award for Excellence in Education. There are three things that I think caught the assessors' eye: <br />1. we teach Sanskrit as a 'Living tradition' that includes Spoken Sanskrit, chanting and singing (here I must acknowledge the wonderful inspiration and contribution of my friend and colleague Dr Sadananda Das of Leipzig), <br />2. the course is flexibly delivered - this means that all my mini-lectures are prerecorded and are available online asynchronously to anyone with internet access (I claim to be the only lecturer in the world who exports Sanskrit to India), which leads to <br />3. our enrolments have grown steadily from 6 in 2006 to 40 in 2012, which makes my director and dean happy<br /><br />If you would like to find out more, please have a look at the portfolio: <br /><a href="https://alliance.anu.edu.au/access/content/user/u3936301/VC_award_portfolio_2012-1.pdf">https://alliance.anu.edu.au/access/content/user/u3936301/VC_award_portfolio_2012-1.pdf</a><font size="3"><br /><br />If even that is not enough, there is a 5-min video introducing our Sanskrit 1 website: </font><a href="http://www.screenr.com/YF78">http://www.screenr.com/YF78</a><br /><br />Yours<br /><br />McComas<br signature="separator" /><hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px; font-weight: bold;" /><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><font color="#dc143c"></font><br /></span></font><hr size="2" width="100%" /><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><br />McComas Taylor</span><br style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;" /><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;">Head, South Asia Program</span><br style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;" /><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;">ANU College of Asia and the Pacific</span><br style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;" /><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tel: </span>+61 2 6125 3179</span><br style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;" /><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Location:</span> Baldessin Precinct Building, 4.24</span><br style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;" /><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Website: </span><a href="http://arktos.anu.edu.au/chill/index.php/mct" style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;">McComas Taylor</a></font><hr size="2" style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial; height: 2px;" width="100%" /><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Courses: </span>Learn about some of my courses:  </span><a href="http://www.screenr.com/NSBs" style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;">Sanskrit 1</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;">  |  </span><a href="http://screenr.com/uUBs" style="color: rgb(25, 25, 112); font-family: Arial;">Indian Epics</a></font>