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Lisa Spiro

Local grant vitalizes Buffalo's long-dormant consortium | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "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."
Rebecca Davis

Ohio college presidents gather for annual meeting -- in Washington | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Why does it take a flight to Washington to get Ohio’s community colleges, public universities and private colleges to sit down at the same table for a discussion?
  • One agenda item from last year returned: how to encourage colleges to work with each other and the private sector to improve job training, a small-group discussion that included two art institutes, community colleges and state universities.
Lisa Spiro

ACE | ACE Announces Winners of Its Innovative Uses in Technology Award - 0 views

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    "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."
Lisa Spiro

Global Virtual Classroom Project Receives CUNY Ribaudo Award - CUNY Newswire - CUNY - 0 views

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    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.
Lisa Spiro

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.
Rebecca Davis

Less elite colleges, well versed in confronting problems, think they can teach elites a... - 0 views

  • The group is also starting to share some academic programs. Despite stretching a geographic area of more than 300 miles, five colleges in the consortium -- University of Charleston, Bethany College, Davis & Elkins College, Emory & Henry College and West Virginia Wesleyan College -- are launching a shared remedial math program next year.
  • Small colleges across the country have formed several partnerships to share faculty in certain fields. Languages have proven particularly popular. This week a group of five liberal arts colleges in Texas announced that they would be teaching languages across the institutions using video conferencing software. The Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, many of which are regional in orientation and don’t show up high on the U.S. News rankings, also has some resource sharing programs in place.
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    "there's nothing like a crisis to make you rethink who your friends are, which was evident in the conference itself and organizers' calls for further discussion about these issues. It is also evident among those institutions that have had a longer and deeper struggle, which have begun integrating in significant ways. The Independent College Enterprise, a group of nine small colleges in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Massachusetts, has been collaborating on administrative services since the late 1990s. The group pooled resources to purchase shared administrative software, which the presidents in the organization estimate to have save each campus millions of dollars since it was purchased."
Rebecca Davis

A Liberal-Arts Consortium Experiments With Course Sharing - Next - The Chronicle of Hig... - 1 views

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    ACS New Paradigm
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    A Liberal-Arts Consortium Experiments With Course Sharing
weskwarren

Let's Go To The Videotape - Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    talk about collaboration as diversity
Rebecca Davis

To cut costs, W.Va. colleges to share faculty  - News - The Charleston Gazett... - 1 views

  • UC officials say the arrangement allows the university to replace adjunct faculty members with an expert in American history.
  • Blended learning, a process of teaching that combined face-to-face classroom teaching with computer-mediated activities, has been on the rise at universities throughout the country.
  • Ninety-three percent of higher-education instructors and administrators say they are using blended learning strategies somewhere in their institution, according to the 2005 book "Handbook of Blended Learning." Seven in 10 expect more than 40 percent of their schools' courses to be blended by 2013.
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    UC officials say the arrangement allows the university to replace adjunct faculty members with an expert in American history.
Rebecca Davis

5 Private Liberal-Arts Colleges Will Share a Professor - The Ticker - The Chronicle of ... - 1 views

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    "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. "
Lisa Spiro

Episode 35: Starting a Conversation That Spans 10,000 Miles - Say Something - The Chron... - 0 views

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    "In this episode, we hear from Jinghua Liu, an international student at Penn State's Erie campus, known as the Behrend College. Ms. Liu created a Web site that encourages discussion between students there and at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, in China."
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