Ryan Fowler, Visiting Assistant Professor, Knox College
Sunoikisis is developing a hybrid Elementary Ancient Greek course. This two-semester sequence will develop a variety of supporting materials in order to allow small and/or overloaded classics departments to offer Greek 101 and 102 each year, regardless of enrollment. Course materials will include: synchronous video instruction broadcasted from a partner school (which will be recorded for repeated viewing), short archived lessons on specific grammatical constructions, and an interactive open-source on-line textbook.
Collaboration through Technology: Greek Across Campuses
1. Collaboration through Technology: Greek Across Campuses
Ryan C. Fowler, Ph.D.
SUNOIKISIS
The Problem Methods Technology
The curricular challenges of
small departments:
Institutional type,
• Teaching a variety of courses in the Logistical
languages, culture, and general
calendars, and
Arrangements
education requires prioritizing. schedules
• Often, departments cannot offer
ancient Greek on a regular basis or at all.
Archived TED-style lectures and podcasts focusing on whole sentences
or specific grammatical or syntactic constructions
Realtime high-
The Solution: Collaboration quality video and
Technical
audio:
Infrastructure
connecting groups,
Cooperation among institutions
not individuals
• Hosted at a single institution
Sequential Collaboration
• Institutions trade off sequences Open-source,
Concurrent Collaboration Curricular extensible, adaptable
• Institutions trade off instruction for mobile devices Pronunciation guides, possibly with corresponding voice
within a given term
Materials and social recognition software
networking, etc.
Participating institutions:
2, 3, or 4 semester
Elon University &
Rhodes College
Sequencing & sequence: working
toward target texts
Integration
Southwestern University & at the advanced
Rollins College level
Kalamazoo College &
Target text has cooperative, blog-style online commentary
Hope College
Thursday, April 12, 2012