A liberal-arts consortium experiments with course sharing — from The Chronicle by Jeff Selingo — 4/4/12
Excerpt:
But advances in technology can now link together institutions that are separated by thousands of miles. An experiment by a group of 16 liberal-arts colleges and universities in the South might serve as the blueprint for other small institutions looking for ways to maintain a core of academic programs but offer enough variety to attract students.
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The initiative will get its start in the fall with a half dozen to a dozen courses at four institutions that have committed so far to the classroom technology, which costs upwards of $250,000. In an effort to maintain the feel of small liberal-arts classes, professors on the home campus of a course will teach in a classroom outfitted with conference capabilities and students on other campuses will take part in real-time, synchronous discussions.
From DSC:
Also see:
- This blog’s items re: pooling resources– here and here
- My archived page on consortia, pooling-resources etc