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

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  • Lisa Spiro on 04 Nov 11
     
    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.
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"At a U. of Kentucky Dorm, a Live-In iPad Experience" - 0 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 04 Nov 11
     
    "The classrooms can do international videoconferencing, too; one class in the spring will feature interaction with a class in South Africa, says Mark Kornbluh, dean of the University of Kentucky's College of Arts and Sciences."
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Emory University | Tech-niques: Teaching with technology at Emory » ECIT - 1 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 04 Nov 11
     
    "Chance encounters between two Shakespeare enthusiasts led to a widely successful course this spring on the bard, taught by Cavanagh and supplemented via Skype by a veteran actor and lecturer."
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Colgate University : Faculty Directory - Dierk Hoffmann - 1 views

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  • Lisa Spiro on 04 Nov 11
     
    Interested in distance and cross-cultural learning (using videoconferencing and web programs);
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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.
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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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