"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."

course bringing together Swarthmore & Ashesi (Ghana)

"As they looked out over dramatic landscapes of the Apennine Mountains in Italy this past fall, 13 students from four ACM colleges were engaged in a new off-campus study program that takes a hands-on, project-based approach to studying earth science and the interactions between people and the environment. Program field trip An overlook of the area the students mapped as part of their first project. The program - Earth & Environment in Italy - is sponsored by Luther College and shared through the ACM consortium, making it available to students at all 14 member colleges."

"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."

"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. "

"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."

"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. "

"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."

"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."

"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

Rebecca Davis' slides

"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."