Here are six academic areas that cry out for potential collaboration across the liberal arts college sector and between the liberal arts colleges and research universities.
1. Liberal arts colleges must aspire to internationalize their curriculum, teach the less commonly taught languages and invigorate or create new programs in geopolitical areas such as Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, South and East Asia.
2. Liberal arts colleges want the flexibility to explore intellectual themes that connect departments and disciplines but do so without creating new majors and without adding new faculty.
3. Liberal arts colleges seek to provide undergraduate research opportunities for students outside the sciences integrating teaching and research across the curriculum presents a complicated set of financial, pedagogical and logistical challenges.
4. Liberal arts colleges want to support faculty members’ integration into the digital humanities into their teaching and scholarship. In order to accomplish this goal, colleges need access to communities of practice and institutional infrastructure that build capacity and that address the challenges of training, standards, critical mass, interoperability and sustainability.
5. Liberal arts colleges also need to use digital technology to create new teaching resources such as virtual labs and to create truly interactive learning platforms for use in introductory courses in subjects such as statistics, mathematics and modern language.
6. Liberal arts colleges need to create arts-based campus cultures that embrace the making of art as an integral component of the life of the mind and a complementary means of connecting different bodies of knowledge.
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Northwest 5 Consortium - 2 views
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"With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Willamette University, Whitman College, University of Puget Sound, Reed College, and Lewis and Clark College have formed the Northwest Five Consortium (NW5C). Working toward the regular sharing of expertise and resources, the mission of the NW5C is to enhance the student academic experience at our five liberal arts colleges through enrichment and development of faculty as teacher-scholars. In service of this mission, the Consortium will provide the infrastructure to support collaborative efforts among its member institutions."
Lafayette LAF - 1 views
The Global Reach of the Liberal Arts :: Admissions & Aid :: Swarthmore College - 1 views
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"Its innovation is well illustrated by the incorporation of technologies and media, such as Youtube, Skype, Moodle and Wiki blogging, into the heart of the academic experience. Of course, its intercontinental scope, having been co-developed and team taught by faculty and for students at Swarthmore and Ashesi University in Ghana, also makes for a groundbreaking academic experience."
Maximizing the Instructional Impact of Videoconferencing -- Campus Technology - 0 views
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Now with accessible cameras in commonly used device such as iPads, phones, tablets, and laptops, the visual is immediate but not necessarily extensive. Therefore, the sense of group requires additional technology to make it inclusive, which the newer platforms are offering.
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The instructional benefits have also evolved from a technology that simply connected students and teachers in different locations with a visual as well as an audio connection, to one that now increases interaction, collaboration, project work, and group activities
Colgate University : Faculty Directory - Dierk Hoffmann - 1 views
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Interested in distance and cross-cultural learning (using videoconferencing and web programs);
Colleges use videoconferencing to offer classes across different campuses | Inside High... - 2 views
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"Yale, Cornell University, and Columbia University, backed by a two-year, $1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, have launched a pilot program to conduct classes in uncommonly taught languages, including Indonesian, Yoruba, and Zulu, across the different campuses using videoconferencing technology. In doing so, they're reviving not only language programs on the brink of extinction, but also a familiar concept in distance education. At a time when asynchronous instruction reaching hundreds of thousands of students is increasingly common, these universities are returning to a mode of distance learning geared toward small classes in which students all meet at the same time."
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Interesting to see the emphasis on very high end, very expensive tech.
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Global Workplace | COIL - 1 views
Cross Cultural Video Production | COIL - 0 views
Colleges use videoconferencing to offer classes across different campuses | Inside High... - 1 views
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Three universities back away from plan to pool courses online | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
World Language Course Exchange - Home - 0 views
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Classes listed as Face-to-Face in ANY of the four Exchanges are actually held via video conferencing. You can attend from your HOME campus.
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These exchanges can enhance the courses offered in the student's major program or can provide courses in disciplines not offered on the student's campus.
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A fourth exchange called World Languages has been created to manage introductory courses in less commonly taught languages.