shaping the future: synchronous learning environments across the campus, across the world

Shaping the Future:Synchronous Learning Environments

Across the Campus, Across the World

Halford HaskellSouthwestern University

Thomas HoweSouthwestern University;

Fondazione Restoring Ancient Stabiae

Kenny MorrellCenter for Hellenic Studies



Telemachos and Penelope

Attic red figure skyphos, Chiusi, Penelope Painter





Associated Colleges of the South

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Mellon Foundation

NITLETelemachos and Penelope

Attic red figure skyphos, Chiusi, Penelope PainterCenter for Hellenic Studies




Thucydides (5th BCE):alliance of individual city-states for a common purpose




Sunoikisis seeks to develop a set of common goals and achieve a degree of success and prominence that goes beyond the capacity of a single campus program.



•Archaeological Field School Opportunities• Hacımusalar, Lycia, Turkey• Kenchreai, Greece



•faculty teachingwithin expertise•discussionduring class, withfaculty modelling

Synchronous classes

1999




•faculty teachingwithin expertise•discussionduring class, withfaculty modelling

Synchronous classes

Asynchronousexchanges




•Archaeological Field School Opportunities•Latin and Greek courses



•Archaeological Field School Opportunities•Latin and Greek coursesUpper level Greek Sequence• Homeric Poetry• Lyric Poetry• Comedy• 4th Century Literature• Hellenistic Literature



•Archaeological Field School Opportunities•Latin and Greek coursesUpper level Greek Sequence• Homeric Poetry• Lyric Poetry• Comedy• 4th Century Literature• Hellenistic Literature

Upper level Latin Sequence• Early Republic• Late Republic• Neronian Period• Imperial Period 70-180 CE• Late Antiquity/Medieval

Elementary Greek (Fall 2012)



•Archaeological Field School Opportunities•Latin and Greek courses•Undergraduate Research Symposium



•Archaeological Field School Opportunities•Latin and Greek courses•Undergraduate Research Symposium•Study “Abroad”



•Archaeological Field School Opportunities•Latin and Greek courses•Undergraduate Research Symposium•Study “Abroad”•Student Internships

W W W . S T A B I A E . O R G

Pompeii

Naples

Herculaneum

Saving Study Abroad Through Synchronous Distance Learning:? Linking Three Institutions:

The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas;

The Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation, Italy

Oplontis

The Villas of Ancient Stabiae


The Challenge:-Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S. produce about 4% of all graduates, but also a disproportionate number of professional leaders.-It is a very expensive type of education (usually), particularly because it demands a low teacher-student ratio, and close interaction of good teacher-professors and students in small classes. -in the last ten years, many more students have entered international careers, and therefore foreign experience and language education have become essential to the value of a liberal arts education. (Now, including China…) -small colleges (well, all colleges, and students) in the U.S. are under stringent financial stress, and study abroad is expensive, and interrupts increasingly complicated majors. .


The Challenge:-Is Synchronous Distance learning capable of reconstructing the intimate and immediate interaction of the classroom of small Liberal Arts Colleges?-Can it work internationally?


The overseas institutional partner:The Vesuvian Institute of the

Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation:a multi-functioning research and study center on the Bay of Naples.


Stabiae

Pompeii

Neapolis (Naples)Ischia Herculaneum

CumaeBaiaeMisenumPuteoli

The prime mission of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation:To construct and maintain a large archaeological park on the site of the ancient Roman villas of Stabiae, 4 km from Pompeii. Stabiae is the largest concentration of well-preserved enormous seaside villas in the entire Mediterranean.

Oplontis


Buried in the same eruption that buried Pompeii in A.D. 79

Baiae Puteoli


Villa San Marco, Reconstruction Model, Albert Bui, Caitlin Allday, April Martin, Southwestern .University

Villa San Marco, Upper Peristyle, digital reconstruction, RAS/Capasso, 2004


Digital reconstruction: RAS/Capware, 2004


RAS/Tom Leader Studios/LVarone

Excavation: Villa San Marco

First visitors’ center

Excavation: Villa Arianna, And On-site museum?

Commuter rail station and Funicular to Park

Archaeological Park at the Site of Stabiae:-site with a coherent character-create concentration activities on the site-seven minute access from Pompei

Projected global budget: c. euro 140 million,

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Site of the Vesuvian Institute


Management Structure: changing world archaeology toward sustainable, shared management of major sites-Master Plan 2001

-The Legal Structure of the Foundation (2002) consists of international board representation from:-The Superintendancy of Archaeology of Pompei (Prof. P.G. Guzzo)-The School of Architecture of the University of Maryland (Prof. Matthew Bell)-The Committee of Stabiae Reborn, Castellammare di Stabia (Notaio F. Spagnuolo)Coordinator General: Prof. Thomas HoweA non-profit cultural institution in Italy as the first foundation of its type created under a 1998 law which allows for the creation of a new type of semi-public, semi-private institution which can both receive and spend both state and private funds, from Italy and abroad.

-R.A.S. incorporation in the U.S., 2005 (Washington, D.C.), non-profit 501-3c

-Contratto di Sponsorizazzione, Jan. 2006. Gives RAS the concession to coordinate all other institutions on the site for execution of Master Plan. Global Budget: €140 million, 2/3 provided by the Region of Campania if 1/3 can be found by RAS Foundation


Villa San Marco, May, 2009 First conceptual sketch of excavation area with descending ramp to Roman street, June 1999 (TNH)

1999 TNH


Villa San MarcoExcavations of the Superintendancy2007-2008:Dot.sa Giovanna Bonfacio, site directorexcavation directors:Dott. Fabrizio RuffoDott. Gennaro IovinoGeom. E. Sabini, site supervisor

Mar. 2008

W W W . S T A B I A E . O R GNov. 2008


Villa Arianna, Great Peristyle court (108 m. long), garden surface of A.D. 79, Revealed June-July, 2007Excavations conducted by the Superintendancy of Pompei, Dr. Giovanna Bonifacio, site director, geom. Enzo Sabini, excavation supervisor; field drawings, summer, 2007, Profs. Lindley Vann, Ian Sutherland, and UMd Students.


June, 2008


The Visitors’ Center:A “Private” Building on a public siteVisitors’ services under RAS management.

May, 2009


NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, D.C., April 27-Oct. 24, 2004ARKANSAS ART CENTER, Little Rock, AR

January 28 – April 14, 2005NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART, Reno, NE

October 7 2005 – Jan 5, 2006SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART, San Diego, CA

February 18 – May 14, 2006MICHAEL C. CARLOS, EMORY U., Atlanta, GA

August – October, 2006TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, Toledo, OH

Nov. 11, 2006, Jan. 28, 2007CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART, U. WISCONSIN, Madison, WI

March 17 – June 3, 2007DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART, Dallas, TX

July 8 – October 7, 2007THE CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS, Jacksonville, FL

November 7, 2007 - Feb 3, 2008

Four-Year Traveling U.S. Tour:“In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient

Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite”


HERMITAGE STATE MUSEUMS, St. Petersburg,

Dec. 7, 2007-March 30, 2008

HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART(18 Jul - 5 Oct 2008)


June 15, 2007 Open for International Educational Groups-A former Salesian College-A residential center for undergraduate and graduate international programs for students and researchers in archaeology, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art and history, History of Opera, Neapolitan folk music, architecture, etc.…-Hosting academic credit programs from study abroad centers-Accredited programs in language, culture, archaeology, art history.

The Vesuvian International Institute for Archaeology and Humanitiesof the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation


A vibrant international study and research center, not a “ghetto-like” study abroad residence hall A vibrant international study and research center, not a “ghetto-like” study abroad residence hall


Mensa/Dining room

Circumvesuviana Rail station

90 bedrooms

Two theaters

lobby

chapel

PlayingFields, parking

The Facilities


The athletic facilities to the rear: the “bad” view.


Close connections to the cultural properties of the Bay of Naples, with easy transportation


A repertoire of local consultants who can offer events or modules to be inserted into accredited courses


A local, innovative cultural and research institution in the center of an area a large range of potential curricular material: -Modern language (Italian, Latin, Arabic and Spanish)-Classical Archaeology, history and art history-Medieval archaeology and art history-Early Christian-Environmental studies-Cultural properties management-Opera, folk music, commedia dell’arte-food history and cuisine-geology-art instruction (drawing photography, painting),

architectural instruction.


NITLE Activities with Telepresence Pedagogy

Alumni Class Audit

NITLE Network Exploration

London/Southwestern Student Bridge


8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00

Time zones, seven hour difference, five hour overlap of the working day


The Main Classroom, with professor

The Distant Classroom

Lecture screen Screen with distantstudents

Screen with students and prof. from main classroom

Camera of professorand classroom

Lecturescreen

camera

Small distant group

Large distant group


The Main Classroom, with professor (c. 25)

Lecture screen

Screen with distantstudents

Camera of professorand classroom

Lecturescreen

camera


The Distant ClassroomScreen with students and prof. from main classroom

Lecturescreen

camera

Small distant group

Large distant group


The requirements for facilities and spaces:The Main Classroom: The Distant classroom: Small-college classrooms, c. 25-30; small “cubicles” for 1-6 students?

Distant groups at one or multiple institutions

Other Main Classrooms Standard small college classrooms for main class (c.25) Students at Stabia taking several

classes from home campus


Italy: courses projected from classrooms, archaeological sites, fieldtrips

ITALYHome College, USA

Individual or small groups of students takings courses from Italy (e.g. Italian language, archaeology, art history) at several colleges

Courses at students home universities which allow individual students abroad to continue following their sequence of required courses

Individual or small groups of students in Italy participating in telepresence in classes at home Univ.


Digitally [partly] solving the library problem: Much bibliography in the humanities is rather old and therefore essential books are often out of print, making it almost impossible for anew study abroad center to start an effective teaching library. Digital library services and e-books may make it possible partly to solve this.


Three types of synchronous distance learning which won’t work:

Antipasto



Primo



Secondo


June 15, 2007 Open for International Educational Groups-A former Salesian College-A residential center for undergraduate and graduate international programs for students and researchers in archaeology, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art and history, History of Opera, Neapolitan folk music, architecture, etc.…-Hosting academic credit programs from study abroad centers-Accredited programs in language, culture, archaeology, art history.

The Vesuvian International Institute for Archaeology and Humanities