Using Smart Technology to Increase Course Offerings in World Languages
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The document discusses the integration of smart technology to enhance world language course offerings in liberal arts colleges, showcasing collaborations like the Texas Language Consortium and SUNY-COIL. It outlines the challenges, lessons learned, and proposed next steps for improving language education through collaborative teaching models. Key elements include intercampus partnerships, technology use, and assessment strategies for effective course delivery.
Using Smart Technology to Increase Course Offerings in World Languages
- 1. Using Smart Technology to Increase Course Offerings in World Languages Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, NITLE Allen H. Henderson, Provost and Senior Vice President, Texas Wesleyan University Charlie McCormick, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Schreiner University CIC Institute for Chief Academic Officers, 2012
- 2. NITLE www.nitle.org • National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education • NITLE helps liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. • Future of Liberal Education • Collaboration
- 4. Session Outline • Lessons Learned from Previous Collaborations • Challenges for Teaching World Languages • Texas Language Consortium • Next Steps • Roundtable and Plenary Discussion
- 5. Shared Academics • Sunoikisis, national consortium of Classics programs, est. 1995 • http://www.sunoikisis.org • Summer Course Planning Seminars • Intercampus Team Taught Courses – Weekly live online sessions using desktop videoconferencing – Remaining course meetings on individual campuses
- 6. Program Evaluation • Three-year longitudinal study (2005) • PIs: Susan Frost, Emory University & Deborah Olsen, Virginia Tech • How-to Resource Guide • http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/Archives/ reports.html
- 7. Looking for Whitman in . . . • New York City College of Technology (CUNY) • New York University • University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA • Rutgers University-Camden • University of Novi Sad (Serbia) • Gold, Matthew. “Disrupting Institutional Barriers Through Digital Humanities Pedagogy.” Diversity & Democracy 15, no. 2 (2012).
- 8. http://lookingforwhitman.org • Personal student blogs • Aggregation via tags and news feeds
- 9. SUNY-COIL • SUNY Center for Online International Collaborative Learning (COIL) • http://coilcenter.purchase.edu/ • Globally Networked Learning • Faculty Guide for COIL Course Development
- 10. Find the Right Partners • Shared challenges and goals • Complementary expertise • Individual level • Institutional level • Technology expertise
- 11. Process for Developing Collaboration • Choosing proper • Calendars & Time Zones content • Academic standards • Exploring institutional • Language ability context • Technology & • Finding & getting to instructional design know partners by support communicating and • Content to be covered comparing • Assessment
- 12. Logistics: Time Zones & Calendars Typical Intercampus Course Map
- 13. Hybrid Model Barbara Means et al. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online : Learning Studies. U.S. Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Policy and Program Studies Service, September 2010. http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/ eval/tech/evidence-based- practices/finalreport.pdf. Southwestern University Students Attend Greek Class
- 14. Student Interaction • Hyper-connected world • Matt Gold. “Looking for Whitman: A Multi- Campus Experiment in Digital Pedagogy.”Teaching Digital Humanities, ed. Brett D. Hirsch, Forthcoming. Global Network by Flickr User WebWizzard
- 15. Fairness of Credit & Effort • Academic credit – Each faculty teaches course on home campus – CGMA: rotate teaching over between 4 institutions over 4 years • Faculty workload – Shifts from content to collaboration in team teaching
- 16. Where are or would you collaborate and why?
- 17. Teaching World Languages • The World Language Opportunity
- 18. Teaching World Languages • The World Language Opportunity • The World Language Problem
- 20. Next Steps • Assessment of Proof of Concept • Funding for Intentional Development • Better Promotion on Campuses • Deal with Difficult Issues – Numbers in a class – Financial Obligations • Other Opportunities to Share Academics
- 21. Roundtables 1. What are your motivations for this type of collaboration? 2. Who might you collaborate with? What existing relationships do you already have? 3. What would be a good test area? 4. What resources do you have in your context/on your campus for this sort of collaboration?