Teagle Foundation - Midwest Hybrid Learning Consortium

Duration: 30-month grant

Geographic Scope: Six small Midwest liberal arts colleges

Participating Institutions:

• Albion College (Michigan)
• Hope College (Michigan)
• DePauw University (Indiana)
• Wabash College (Indiana)
• Lawrence University (Wisconsin)
• Grinnell College (Iowa)

Purpose & Focus Areas:

• Design and teach hybrid courses with emphasis on digital teaching
• Use technology to build hybrid ways of teaching and learning
• Study how technology works in liberal arts colleges
• Expand capacity to build hybrid courses
• Find new ways of teaching and learning
• Promote collaboration among member schools

Program Components:

1. Three aspects: expanding capacity to build hybrid courses; finding new ways of teaching and learning; promoting collaboration among member schools
2. Three workshops featuring faculty and staff from different schools to analyze effectiveness
   • First workshop: Hope College (June 2015)
   • Second workshop: Wabash College (April 2016)
   • Final workshop: Albion College (Summer 2017)
3. Research from classes available to other GLCA faculty

Example Collaboration:

• Albion's Marcy Sacks (African American history) and Hope College's Jeanne Petit (U.S. history) combined classes to create website on Black Lives Matter movement
• Joint face-to-face meeting in Kalamazoo for student discussion
• Plan to create collaborative website

Eligibility: Faculty at participating liberal arts colleges