A three-year gift from the Council of Independent Colleges is making it workable for Sweet Briar understudies this spring to take classes at Concordia College in Minnesota, or Otterbein University in Ohio, while never setting foot off grounds — or changing out of their night robe, so far as that is concerned.
In kind, understudies from different schools in the Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction will have the capacity to go to courses at Sweet Briar.
Kimberly Morse-Jones shows craftsmanship history classes at Sweet Briar.
The gift was started in 2014 to bolster online training and coordinated effort between the 21 part establishments. Its particular objectives were "to investigate how online humanities direction can enhance understudy learning results"; "to figure out if littler, free aesthetic sciences establishments can make more viable utilization of their instructional assets and lessen costs through online humanities guideline"; and "to give a chance to CIC part foundations to fabricate their ability for online humanities direction and impart their triumphs to other human sciences universities."
Sweet Briar College will offer two of around 40 online courses that are interested in understudies from every single part school. All non-SBC courses are ensured to exchange to Sweet Briar with an evaluation of "TR," as indicated by a late preparation displayed to the personnel — with the admonition that it will be up to every office and project to figure out if these courses mean particular majors, minors or endorsements.
A few courses require constant gatherings by means of videoconference, while others are taught totally on the web.
Partner teacher of English Tony Lilly and going to collaborator educator of craftsmanship history Kimberly Morse-Jones are initiating the venture at Sweet Briar. The previous spring, they each taught a trial keep running of their online course.
"The class I am instructing as a component of the CIC consortium is Women Artists: A Global Perspective," says Morse-Jones.
Her course depends on a class concentrated on Western craftsmen from the Middle Ages to the present day, which she has been educating at Sweet Briar for quite a long while.
"I thought it is fascinating to approach the subject from a more extensive point of view by taking a gander at workmanship made by ladies from everywhere throughout the globe from ancient to contemporary times," she says.
The class is sorted out by medium — materials, painting and design — rather than the more customary sequential configuration.
"Therefore, fascinating juxtapositions crosswise over space and time are made. For instance, we concentrate on materials made by the Kuna ladies of Panama nearby the work of ladies weavers at The Bauhaus in Germany. We additionally take a gander at ancient hollow painting — it is trusted some of it was made by ladies — close by contemporary road works of art made by ladies."
Understudies take an interest in a Wikipedia alter a-thon at Sweet Briar College in 2014.
The class went "OK" the previous spring, Morse-Jones says, however numerous understudies were not locally available with the online arrangement. She thoroughly comprehends why.
"There wasn't generally motivation to hold it on the web, aside from the way that I was basically utilizing them as guinea pigs," she clarifies. "The thought was to experiment with a half and half organization, part eye to eye, part nonconcurrent, that would then be revealed the accompanying spring and incorporate understudies from different schools joining in the consortium."
The spring 2016 class right now has 13 understudies enlisted, including three from McDaniel College and one from Concordia College, Morse-Jones says.
"I think the genuine advantages of web learning will be made more clear this semester when we can incorporate these different understudies," she includes. "I was covertly seeking after some male understudies, to have a male point of view on the subject, however lamentably none have enlisted yet."
As yet, having the capacity to speak with members from different universities will be useful to the understudies, she says. The class will meet once per week utilizing video conferencing for the whole 2 1/2 hours, yet there likewise will be a solid online segment as readings, recordings, presentations and a talk board. Morse-Jones likewise plans to have her class take an interest in Art + Feminism's Wikipedia alter a-thon.
"This is the third year the College has partaken [in the alter a-thon]," she says. "Previously, we sorted out an occasion here at Sweet Briar, however I am considering going up to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. I additionally plan to take the class the Textile Museum in D.C., which is presently some portion of George Washington University."
Meeting once per week through Google Hangouts, Lilly's sexual orientation concentrates course, A College of Their Own, will take a gander at understudies' encounters going to a solitary sex organization.
Tony Lilly shows English and sex concentrates on courses at Sweet Briar.
He says his trial run the previous spring went well.
"What was so pleasant about the class was the understudies' capacity — and truly, their energy — to act naturally intelligent about their involvement with a solitary sex school," he says.
"Understudies encounter most likely a hundred unobtrusive things consistently that outcome from a solitary sex learning environment, however we don't regularly take an ideal opportunity to notice them or consider them. So when understudies stop and consider how they learn, mingle, talk, have some good times — even eat and rest — in the setting of a ladies' or men's school, it can be truly enlightening. It shows us about our school, our way of life and ourselves in a genuine and prompt way."
His class included — and will again this spring — understudies from both Sweet Briar and "sibling school" Hampden-Sydney College. In addition to other things, understudies examined the way of clubs at men's versus ladies' schools, of gamer society, classroom progress and sexual expression.
"It was awesome having understudies from various schools in the classroom to think about their experience, which is just conceivable with online innovation," Lilly says.
"I trust we can do
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