UC officials say the arrangement allows the university to replace adjunct faculty members with an expert in American history.
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To cut costs, W.Va. colleges to share faculty - News - The Charleston Gazett... - 1 views
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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.
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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.
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.
Consortia to the Rescue | University Business Magazine - 0 views
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But students have different goals and want to learn different languages, and trying to meet students’ needs and desires in world languages is in some cases an economic nightmare, for a small liberal university like Schreiner. We needed some solution on how to do this.”
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“Rebecca Davis at NITLE knew of other small liberal schools in Texas with the same problem, and suggested we get together and talk about the problem,
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NITLE does a great deal of work around digital humanities, and often uses technology to fill in gaps at small liberal arts colleges.
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"But students have different goals and want to learn different languages, and trying to meet students' needs and desires in world languages is in some cases an economic nightmare, for a small liberal university like Schreiner. We needed some solution on how to do this.""
Collaborative Language Learning Online - 2 views
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Rebecca Davis' slides
Cross-campus Virtual Classrooms Bring Massey 'Wow... | Stuff.co.nz - 0 views
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"Futuristic virtual classrooms have become a reality for students who can now share their learning using video technology at two of Massey University's campuses. Massey's prototype Video Link Teaching (VLT) rooms are a one-off design by a Wellington developer for use across the university's three campuses in Palmerston North, Wellington and Albany. "
Fembot Collective | Dialogues in FemTechNet Course Description - 3 views
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"Dialogues in Feminism and Technology A Massively Distributed Collaborative Learning Experiment"
SensePublishers Online Bookstore - 3 views
Cool Kindergarteners seeking Cultural Knowledge! | Skype in the classroom - 0 views
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"We are a class of 19 Kindergarten students located just outside of Melbourne, Australia and we would like to Skype with other classrooms around the world. We are interested in learning more about what life is like in other parts of the world. "
Colgate University : Faculty Directory - Dierk Hoffmann - 1 views
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Interested in distance and cross-cultural learning (using videoconferencing and web programs);
Three universities back away from plan to pool courses online | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Lafayette LAF - 1 views
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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.
Collaborative Facilities - 0 views
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"Collaborative Facilities is a project designed to collect, organize, and disseminate information about model "collaborative facilities" on college and university campuses. The project is sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and hosted by Dartmouth College in an effort to assist institutions in planning, implementing, and evaluating these facilities. This web site allows information professionals, administrators, faculty, and other interested visitors to "tour" collaborative facilities online and to analyze documents related to their planning, design, administration, staffing, services, and funding. The site also provides contact information for each participating institution in order to encourage the development of an interactive community devoted to collaborative facilities."
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."