{"id":28495,"date":"2012-04-11T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=28495"},"modified":"2012-04-11T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:36:19","slug":"a-liberal-arts-consortium-experiments-with-course-sharing-selingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/04\/11\/a-liberal-arts-consortium-experiments-with-course-sharing-selingo\/","title":{"rendered":"A liberal-arts consortium experiments with course sharing [Selingo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/next\/2012\/04\/04\/a-liberal-arts-consortium-looks-into-course-sharing\/\"><strong>A liberal-arts consortium experiments with course sharing<\/strong><\/a> <em>&#8212; from The Chronicle by Jeff Selingo &#8212; 4\/4\/12<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But advances in technology can now link together institutions that are separated by thousands of miles. An experiment by a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colleges.org\/\">16 liberal-arts colleges and universities<\/a> 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.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This blog&#8217;s items re: pooling resources&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/category\/consortiums\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/category\/pooling-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/consortiums.htm\" target=\"_blank\">archived page on consortia, pooling-resources etc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal-arts consortium experiments with course sharing &#8212; from The Chronicle by Jeff Selingo &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[656,766],"class_list":["post-28495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consortiums","tag-consortiums","tag-pooling-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28496,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions\/28496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}