Shared Academics

"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. "

talk about collaboration as diversity

"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."

"He and Andrew Stauffer are reprising the course this semester (Spring 2012) but as networked courses running in tandem at University of Maryland and University of Virginia "

"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."

Use of open source social network to foster faculty community and collaboration.

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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.

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.