art, science, or both? instructional technology collaborations among liberal arts colleges
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Art, Science, or Both? Instructional Technology Collaborations among Liberal Arts Colleges
Midwest Educause Regional Conference 2005
Nancy Millichap Midwest Instructional Technology Center (MITC)
Colleges and Universities Participating in theColleges and Universities Participating in the Midwest Instructional Technology Center Midwest Instructional Technology Center
Midwest Instructional Technology Center: Collaboration, Distributed
26 colleges (members of Associated Colleges of the Midwest and Great Lakes Colleges Association) in collaboration
Quarterly RFP and review process Distributed programs: conferences, symposia,
technology workshops, projects Faculty, library, and IT staff teambuilding Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
moving to sustainable model with participant feeswww.midwest-itc.org
Collaboration: Art or Science?
Developing new professional networks? (Create.)Art.
Doing something new inter-institutionally? (Experiment.) Science.
Assuring needed materials and using them together? (Provide and support.)Both.
Collaboration as Art: Developing a New Professional Network
Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges (ITLAC) annual conference
Preconference workshops Seminar Retreat MITC Fellows Program
Collaborative professional development
What’s in it for instructional technologists?
Advice and support New skills New relationships
… a sense of community
Collaboration as Science: Creating New Shared Resources
Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS)
ideas.midwest-itc.org
IDEAS Collaboration
Collaborating colleges St. Olaf College Earlham College Lake Forest College Colorado College
Collaborating professionals Faculty members
(discipline knowledge - and pictures)
Technologists (knowledge of systems and applications)
Librarians (knowledge of standards and metadata)
National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
“Connecting the dots” Providing coordination among three regional
Centers - MITC, CET in Northeast, ACSTC in South) serving 81 liberal arts colleges
Developing programs of cross-regional interest Partnering with national organizations such as CNI
and CLIR Informing the liberal arts community about
technology developmentshttp://www.nitle.org
Institutions Participating in NITLEInstitutions Participating in NITLE
Collaboration as Art and Science: Extensive Curricular Resources
Arab Culture and Civilization web site
and
al-Musharaka teaching collaborative
http://arabworld.nitle.org
MITC and NITLE Collaborations: Take-home Messages Collaborators are both artists (creators) and
scientists (experimenters). Liberal arts colleges are collaborating - and in
the process developing useful things. Successful collaboration within a specific
sector produces results and resources that benefit both that sector and others.
http://ideas.midwest-itc.org
http://arabworld.nitle.org