Dr. Shelton is highly active in promoting excellence in online education globally, and she is a prolific scholar contributing to the evaluation of quality online education. She is the author of “An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education,” and the “Quality Scorecard for the Administration of Online Programs,” an award-winning tool for quality evaluation. Her research has been honored by Phi Delta Kappan, the National Council of Professors of Educational Leadership’s prestigious, Edgar Morphet award, and most recently, the Sloan Consortium John R. Bourne award for Outstanding Achievement in Online Education. Dr. Shelton is donating her $1,500 scholarship to the Center for Doctoral Studies Fund at Lamar University.