campus partner(s)

Five Colleges

Inc. (Mount Holyoke College

Smith College

Amherst College

Hampshire College

and The University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

state(s)

MA

amount

$280,000

initiative

Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience

award date

05.2014

project director

Nate Therien

Five Colleges, Incorporated

Grant Summary

$280,000 over 36 months to Five Colleges, Incorporated to build multi-campus/multi-course collaborations on hybrid learning projects. Teams of faculty in topical and disciplinary areas where there are synergies of interest in blended learning will be recruited. During the three-year project, three cohorts of two to four teams of faculty members will develop multi-campus projects. A hybrid learning assessment specialist will also be recruited to work with faculty teams. The project will provide seminars and workshops on hybrid learning and successful pedagogies.