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"A collaborative distance education model that will increase the quality, access, and diversity of online education opportunities in Library and Information Science. "

"Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and C, Mather Hall, at Trinity College. See comments below from alumni and students who plan to participate, and add your own. Also, check out the "Pathways to Teaching" advising page on the Educational Studies Program website."

"New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium facilitates collaboration among its member institutions in fulfilling their educational missions and serving the public good. Through the sharing of expertise and resources, the Consortium enhances options for students, faculty, and staff, while reducing colleges' individual and collective operating and capital costs."

"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."

Interesting to see the emphasis on very high end, very expensive tech.

"The Western New York Consortium of Higher Education has been around -- in name, at least -- since 1967. But the level of collaboration between the 21 member institutions in and around Buffalo was minuscule until a pair of grants from a local foundation enlivened the consortium in recent years."

ACS New Paradigm

A Liberal-Arts Consortium Experiments With Course Sharing

"Campus Technology's recent conversation with Michael Cottam, Rio Salado College's associate dean over instructional design and new program development, helps shed some light on how OERs may be better evaluated in the future so that course developers can leverage open resources more effectively."

"Four institutions of higher education have been named winners of the American Council on Education's (ACE) Bringing the World into the Classroom Award, which recognizes innovative use of technology to promote internationalization."

UC officials say the arrangement allows the university to replace adjunct faculty members with an expert in American history.

"Five private liberal-arts colleges-four in West Virginia and one in Virginia-will share a remedial-mathematics professor, and two of them will share an American-history professor, in an effort to trim costs while maintaining a high quality of instruction, reports The Charleston Gazette. "

For the past four years, students at the College of Staten Island have been able to attend classes in Turkey, China, Greece, Italy, and South Africa without having to leave the comforts of the College's beautiful 204-acre campus. Thanks to the Virtual Classroom Project, where students at CSI link to higher education institutions in other countries, and students at those colleges also connect with them, everyone involved gains insights to other parts of the world that they previously only might have imagined.