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Rebecca Davis

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

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    A Liberal-Arts Consortium Experiments With Course Sharing
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    "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."
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. "
Rebecca Davis

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

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Shared-academics liberal-education collaboration

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  • 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.
  • Rebecca Davis on 08 Mar 12
     
    UC officials say the arrangement allows the university to replace adjunct faculty members with an expert in American history.
Rebecca Davis

New Network Seeks to Form a 'Meta-University' to Link Engineering Schools - Global - Th... - 0 views

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  • collaborating on engineering-design projects and research activities, exchanging students and professors, and pooling their expertise to work more closely with industry.
  • The new alliance would instead be based on "universities that have similar missions and share key characteristics,
  • For example, they could focus on energy challenges one year and clean-water problems the next.
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  • The Thayer School, for example, has about 20 dual-degree programs with other liberal-arts institutions in the United States but has no such programs at the graduate level or internationally.
  • Collaborative undergraduate programs were also discussed, including a proposal to have at least two students from each of the participating national alliances work together on design projects that could last a semester or even a year.
Rebecca Davis

2 Projects Seek to Bring Costly Genetics Lessons Into Liberal-Arts Classrooms - Adminis... - 0 views

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  • Both projects, says Deborah E. Allen, the NSF grant manager who worked with them, aim to "capture authentic research experiences within biology courses" at the undergraduate level
  • The hope is that a project like Mr. Boyle's can bring some of the same benefits to a larger number of students.
  • Mr. Boyle's project is a direct descendant of a project that a Davidson College biology professor, A. Malcolm Campbell, has been running for a decade. In Mr. Campbell's project, called the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching,
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  • "There's a benefit of working in a community," Mr. Campbell says. In many cases, "you're the only one doing this on your campus, and it's always so much easier to have a network of people so that when you get in a jam you can send out an e-mail."
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