--- Forwarded Message from "Bruce Swayne" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:20:57 -0600 >From: "Bruce Swayne" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Course redesign The National Center for Academic Transformation, Experts in improving learning and reducing cost in higher education, ( see http://www.thencat.org/), has identified three "course redesign" projects in Spanish * at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Portland State University * as being examples of the success of using technology and instructional design to reduce the financial cost of the delivery of language instruction while improving student learning. Could anyone point me to external evaluations of these projects, formal reviews by outside researchers, or even informal insights from those who are familiar with these projects? Thanks, Bruce Bruce R. Swayne Director, Modern Languages Resource Center MLL Internship Coordinator MLL Non-credit Instruction Coordinator Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Boise State University 1910 University Drive, L144 Boise, Idaho USA 83725-1530 208-426-3452 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************