Attention Faculty!
2020 Call for Proposals is Open!
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Background: Exec Summary / Call for Proposals (PDF)
About the Exploration
Sharing courses as a consortium can enhance curricular opportunities for students and faculty, lead to efficiency gains by combining expertise and curricular resources, and provide opportunities for our faculty and students to explore digitally-enhanced, collaborative modes for teaching and learning in the liberal arts.
Based on insights from earlier course sharing pilots, a multi-campus, multidisciplinary LACOL Steering Committee and Course Design Task Force invite exploration of models and techniques for sharing courses digitally across LACOL’s digital network.
While there is not a one-size-fits all approach, there are plenty of proven models and teaching techniques to draw on. Support for shared courses will depend on a thriving network of relationships across faculty, IT, library, and academic support offices.
2020 Shared Courses
- Introduction to Data Science (Summer 2020)
- Linear Programming (Spring 2020)
- Bayesian Inference with Python; Data Confidentiality (Spring 2020)
- Intermediate German Link Up (Fall 2020)
2019 Shared Courses
- Introduction to Data Science (Summer 2019)
- Bayesian Statistics (Spring 2019, Fall 2019)
- Operations Research (Fall 2019)
- Course Sharing for Portuguese SILP (Fall 2019/Spring 2020)
2017 -2018 Shared Course Pilots
Course Sharing for Portuguese (SILP)
In the Fall 2017/Spring 2018, Vassar College and Williams College shared a tutor and teaching resources for their students learning Portuguese via their Self-Instructional Language Programs.
Read more: https://lacol.net/project-summary-silp
Upper Level Math/Stats
In Spring and Fall of 2017, several LACOL colleges collaborated to pilot three shared course offerings for advanced mathematics and statistics:
- Putnam Problem Solving, Spring ‘17 (Prof. S. Miller, WIlliams College)
- Advanced Real Analysis, Fall ‘17 (Prof. S. Garcia, Pomona College)
- Bayesian Statistics, Fall ‘17 (Prof. M. Hu, Vassar College)
Read more: https://lacol.net/category/collaborations/projects/upper-level-math
Multidisciplinary Advisory Group
This group was convened in January 2018 to advance the course sharing exploration over the course of the spring term. Based on recommendations from the Math/Stats steering group as a starting point, this group is considering a wider range of opportunities across the disciplines and the policies and processes to support a course sharing agreement and framework.
Steering Committee: Members
Course Design Task Force:
This group was convened in January 2018. They are charged with developing technical and design guidelines to support robust teaching, learning and student engagement as part of a course sharing framework that may emerge from these deliberations.
Task Force: Members
Related Posts:
- Sharing Courses in Self-Instructional Language Programs through Online Conversation (Fall 2020)
- Course Sharing for Self-Instructional Language Learning (SILP)
- Operations Research – Shared Course Opportunity, Spring 2020
- Bayesian Statistics – Shared Course Opportunity, Fall 2019
- Professors present math/stats course sharing pilot at EDUCAUSE ELI
- Upper Level Math & Stats Course Exchange
- Where’s my remote? Shared upper level math courses across schools
- Project Update: Upper Level Stats shared course pilot added for Fall 2017
- Exploration of Blended Course Offerings for Upper Level Mathematics