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Enhancing Pedagogy Through Technology
“Diversity Link”
Holy Cross College, IN
Manor Junior College, PA
Presentation College, SD
Diverse
students defined as urban, rural and Native American
participate, via technology, in team-taught composition
classes with a cultural diversity theme.
Project Director: Madeline Seltzer
Manor Junior College
215-885-2360 Ext. 250
“Diversity Link II”
Holy Cross
College, IN
Manor Junior College, PA
Presentation College, SD
This
extends the above project to include independent study by
utilizing a Website which provides students with assignments,
a database of readings and a
chat room allowing students to communicate with each other.
Project Director: Madeline Seltzer
Manor Junior College
215-885-2360 Ext. 250
“Project CuRL”
Connecticut
College, CT
Dartmouth College, NH
Trinity College, CT
Wesleyan University, CT
Williams College, MA
Faculty on
release time research and integrate pedagogically sound
internet sources into course design and teaching which then
forms a database for future collaborations and information
sharing.
Project Director: Michael Roy
Wesleyan University
860-685-2126
“Utilizing
Technology to Redesign Curriculum”
Bloomfield
College, NJ
Caldwell College, NJ
College of St. Elizabeth, NJ
Felician College, NJ
Seton Hall University, NJ
Faculty
Fellows, trained to use information technologies, work with
colleagues on integrating those technologies into Math,
English, Business and Education courses. Web servers and
groupware products allow the technology infrastructure to be
shared.
A second grant
expands this project to include other colleges interested in
sharing technological resources to enhance student learning.
Project Director: John B. Wilson
Independent College Fund of New Jersey
908-277-3424
“Distance Learning Tutorial in Classical Latin”
Iona College,
NY
Marquette University, WI
Saint Anselm College, NH
A Website makes
a learning tutorial available on a 24 hour a day, seven days a
week basis and includes reference and research materials
related to classical Latin.
Project Director: Minaz Fazal
Iona College
914-633-2003
“Developing a Regional Consortium for
Multicultural Education in Pennsylvania”
College Misericordia, PA
King’s College, PA
Marywood University, PA
University of Scranton, PA
Wilkes University, PA
These colleges
enhance their students’ education by developing new
programming, curricular innovations and interfaces between
campus and community --
all geared to prepare them for living in a multiracial, multicultural
society.
Project Director: Linda Trompetter
College Misericordia
717-674-6482
“Integrating Technology into Classroom Teaching”
Clearwater
Christian College, FL
Eckerd College, FL
St. Leo College, FL
University of Tampa, FL
Through
seminars, faculty learn to integrate technology into their
teaching.
Between
seminars, a Website provides supporting information and allows
faculty to communicate with each other. This project
culminates with a one-day conference for 200 participants.
Project
Director: Gerald T. Horton
Florida Independent College Fund
904-824-3523
“A Virtual Laboratory Integrates a Chemistry
Curriculum”
Bellarmine
College, KY
Huntington College, IN
Illinois
College, IL
Illinois
Wesleyan University, IL
Information technology allows students to
share equipment in conducting experiments and exercises in a
virtual laboratory and to communicate with one another and
with faculty.
Project
Director: Graham Ellis
Bellarmine College
502-452-8220
“German On-Line”
Connecticut
College, CT
Denison University, OH
Trinity College, CT
Wesleyan University, CT
Faculty
create an internet resource consisting of a multi-media
lexicon and activity
templates to provide a method for asynchronous learning.
Faculty from other institutions also use the system and
contribute to the resources.
Project Director: Melissa Vogelsang
Wesleyan University
860-347-9411 Ext. 3359
“G.E.M. Lab Project”
Converse
College, SC
Limestone College, SC
Spartanburg Methodist College, SC
State-of-the-art analytic equipment is
housed in a mobile laboratory which is transported to the
three institutions. The equipment is used by students to
further their environmental studies research.
Project Director: Jerry Howe
Converse College
864-596-9000
“The Appalachian Collegiate Consortium Linking
Environmental Science Sources (ACCESS)”
Alderson-Broaddus College, WV
Davis and Elkins College, WV
Salem-Teikyo
University, WV
These colleges
incorporate inquiry-based learning into the environmental
science curriculum through the development of a Website that
contains data sets, research methods, current topics in
environmental science, and projects to be undertaken by
faculty and students. The projects are based on real
environmental issues that derive from the region.
Project Director: Bruce Edinger
Salem-Teikyo University
304-782-5214
“Germany: Live!”
Calvin College, MI
Hope College,
MI
Taylor
University, IN
Wheaton
College, IL
These colleges
use a core multi-media package, including video cassettes and
CDs, in teaching first year German. A Website provides the
means for communication among faculty and students and
promises to be extended to accommodate distance learning and
independent study.
Project Director: Lee Forester
Hope College
616-395-7576
“The Community Outreach Web-Link”
Spring Hill College, AL
University of
Scranton, PA
Walsh
University, OH
Nursing
students in these colleges serve different at-risk
populations. In sharing their experiences via e-mail,
videoconferencing and a Website, they learn the
many needs of diverse people and strategies to provide them
with necessary services.
Project Director: Joyce Soehnlen
Walsh University
330-490-7250
“Instructional Modules for Japanese in a Web
Environment”
Earlham College, IN
Kenyon
College, OH
St. Olaf
College, MN
The faculties at
these colleges develop thematic, content-based modules for CD-ROM and
a Website which students access in learning first and second
year Japanese. Students also participate in discussions with
each other via the Website and e-mail and with native speakers
in Japan.
Project Director: Phyllis Larson
St. Olaf College
507-646-3744
“Creating Virtual Academic Departments”
Bacone College, OK
Bartlesville
Wesleyan College, OK
St. Gregory’s
College, OK
Virtual departments eliminate
one-person departments and provide
the opportunity to
offer a wider variety of classes to a greater number of
students. Going on-line also allows these colleges to advise
and otherwise interact with students, and to hold department
meetings, as well as plan and review curricula.
Project Director: Victor Roberts
St. Gregory’s University
405-878-5100
“Five Colleges of Ohio Student Information
Literacy Project”
College of Wooster, OH
Denison University, OH
Kenyon College, OH
Oberlin College, OH
Ohio Wesleyan University, OH
A series of Web-based, interactive programs significantly
increases the information literacy of
students by providing them with the technological means to conduct research
efficiently and effectively.
Project Director: Raymond English
Oberlin College
440-775-8285
Ext. 231
“Technology Training for Faculties of
Education”
Barber-Scotia College, NC
Belmont Abbey College, NC
Bennett College, NC
Catawba College, NC
Livingstone College, NC
Pfeiffer University, NC
Conducting a year-long training program for
their faculties of education in the use of
technology in the classroom results in curricular revisions to
include the use of technology in instructional delivery.
Project Director: Sandra Loehr
Belmont Abbey College
704-825-6822
“OFIC Colleges Collaborative Distance Learning
Program - Phase One”
The Ohio Foundation for Independent Colleges works with 18
colleges to create a
collaborative, Web-based, asynchronous degree completion program aimed at employees
of Ohio businesses.
Project
Director: Kenneth L. Hoyt
The Ohio Foundation of Independent College, Inc.
614-469-1950
“Futuristic Faculty Development via a
Collaborative, On-line Mentoring System: A Collegiate
Development Network”
D’Youville
College, NY
Elon College,
NC
Jacksonville
University, FL
In
developing a pilot on-line mentoring system, college
faculty upgrade and update their teaching performances.
Project Director: Sharon Baiocco
Jacksonville University
904-745-7100
“Faculty Development Collaborative in Technology (FDCT)”
The
Foundation for Independent Higher Education
The Council
of Independent Colleges
This grant,
when matched by participating State Funds, aims to use proven
organizational structures and processes developed in five
states to efficiently extend faculty development
collaborations to five additional states. The purpose of these
state-based collaborations within a national network will be
to provide faculty with the knowledge, skills and support to
adopt pedagogically effective uses of digital tools to improve
instruction and enhance student learning.
Project
Director: Ed Barboni
561-379-3253
“Teaching and Learning with Technology”
Iowa College
Foundation
This grant,
when matched, will allow ICF/IAICU to create a one-year
$300,000 program for FY 2000-2001, to fund four innovative
approaches for addressing the critical need to provide
assistance for faculty to integrate technology into their
instructional process among its 30 member institutions.
Project
Director: Velma Peters
Iowa College Foundation
515-282-0473
“Faculty Development and Technology Integration
Program”
Iowa College
Foundation
This grant,
when matched, will fund a program with two primary objectives:
(1) To assist ICF’s colleges in integrating technology into
the curriculum by holding statewide workshops for nearly 500
faculty over three years; and (2) Provide funds aimed at
faculty development and technology integration activities on
the campuses following the workshops.
Project
Director: Velma Peters
Iowa College Foundation
515-282-0473
“Collaborative Faculty Development Program Using
Technology
Phases I & II”
Kansas
Independent College Fund
These grants,
when matched, will be used to undertake a collaborative
program involving all 17 member colleges and focusing on
faculty development in the use of technology. Funds will be
committed to the planning phase of the project, an inventory
of all Kansas college technology resources along with the
development of a web site accessing these resources. Using
these data, KICF is launching a major program to enhance the
teaching skills of their faculty in the use of technology
including faculty exchanges among colleges, sharing of
technology information, and using the Internet as a teaching
tool.
Project
Director: Bob Kelly
Kansas Independent College
Fund
“Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning
and On-line Teaching (MERLOT)”
The
Foundation for Independent Higher Education (FIHE)
The Council
of Independent Colleges (CIC)
The National
Association of Independent Colleges & Universities (NAICU)
The NAICU
State Executives (NAICUSE)
This grant
facilitates a second year of membership in MERLOT for the
private sector, as a cooperative endeavor of FIHE, CIC, NAICU
& NAICUSE. MERLOT’s mission is to improve the effectiveness of
teaching and learning by expanding the quantity and quality of
peer-reviewed online learning materials that can be easily
incorporated into faculty designed courses. Membership brings
eight faculty members from our sector into the leadership and
review process and secures the sector a position on the
Project Directors Council, which advises the MERLOT
executives.
Project
Director: Ed Barboni
561-379-3253
“Ameritech Faculty Development Technology
Program”
Michigan
Colleges Foundation
The
Associated Colleges of Illinois
The Ohio
Foundation of Independent Colleges
Wisconsin
Foundation for Independent Colleges
This grant,
when matched, will be used to fill a major need that has been
identified by planning teams working in each state, to plan
and provide faculty development opportunities in the use of
digital tools to enhance student learning and to have a
single, convenient, well-designed website to which faculty
everywhere may turn to find exemplars of effective pedagogical
practice enhanced with digital tools.
Project
Director: Bill Liebold
Michigan Colleges
Foundation
248-208-2010
“Faculty Development Collaboration”
Independent
Colleges of Northern California
The nine
members of the Independent Colleges of Northern California
will establish their first collaborative venture. Although the
institutions are somewhat dissimilar, the presidents met and
identified a common challenge: the area of faculty
development. The presidents believe that a cooperative effort
to develop successful processes beneficial to our institutions
can lead to further long-term collaboration.
Project
Director: Alyce Sporer Mars
Independent Colleges of
Northern California
707-763-3400
“Tek.Xam”
Virginia
Foundation for Independent Colleges
This grant,
when matched, will allow VFIC to form partnerships with ten
selected state independent college funds to increase the
number of colleges and corporations across the country that
administer and recognize Tek.Xam, a national certification
exam designed to measure students’ problem solving and
technology skills.
Project
Director: Linda Dalch
Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges
804-288-6609
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