Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Liberal Arts Online audio conference March 17 at 2PM, LH113

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (www.aacu.org) in cooperation with Inside Higher Ed (www.insidehighered.com) is organizing an audio conference on the topic "The Liberal Arts Online." Hope College has registered to join the one hour online conference. Faculty and staff are invited. We will together tune in to the live conference Thursday, March 17 beginning at 2:00 PM in Lubbers 113 (the first floor conference room near the elevator). A special invitation is extended to summer online course faculty, faculty interested in blended learning, and anyone else who is interested in exploring the use of digital courses in higher education. Please rsvp bandstra@hope.edu if you plan to attend: I need to get a gauge of interest in case we need to secure a larger room.

Here is the description of the event from the aacu.org website.

Distance education and hybrid courses continue to attract more and more students, and many educators fear that a focus on the practical and professional in these offerings excludes the liberal arts. In fact, some educators and colleges are devoting considerable attention to applying the latest technology to expand liberal arts offerings.

On Thursday, March 17, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed presents, “The Liberal Arts Online,” an audio conference featuring Rebecca Davis of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. The presentation will cover the best existing models for offering such courses online, the latest technology, a guide to developing an institutional strategy for launching programs, how to gain faculty support, and how to preserve the style of liberal arts instruction in a new format.

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