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Gruppo 62 Italian Project

Gruppo 62 Italian Project. Undergraduate Collaboration Universities of Hull & Leeds SIS, Cork, July 2003. Project Team Project manager: George Talbot Web developer: Kathryn Cheshir Writers Catherine Keen, Brian Richardson, George Talbot, Pamela Williams & Dick Andrews. Funding

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Gruppo 62 Italian Project

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  1. Gruppo 62 Italian Project Undergraduate Collaboration Universities of Hull & Leeds SIS, Cork, July 2003

  2. Project Team Project manager: George Talbot Web developer: Kathryn Cheshir Writers Catherine Keen, Brian Richardson, George Talbot, Pamela Williams & Dick Andrews Funding UCML (HEFCE) http://www.hull.ac.uk/G62/g62home/g62index.htm

  3. G62 aims • build on regional collaboration for the promotion of Italian studies • maintain & enhance breadth of curriculum • advance development of C&IT tools for learning and teaching

  4. G62 objectives • topic-based modules • Italian culture, history, lang. & lit. • enhance elements of existing modules • issue(s) of inter-institutional modules

  5. G62 topics • History & Culture of Medieval Italy • History & Culture of Renaissance Italy • Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy

  6. G62 issues arising • teaching students at different levels • putting the learning materials to different kinds of uses • vexed question of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)

  7. The Problem: VLE options • Blackboard • MERLIN (Hull) • Bodington Common (Leeds)

  8. ‘corporate identity’ communication with students multi-site learning community whose identity? motivation and commitment? does it work in the single campus setting? G62 : VLE pros and cons

  9. G62 solution to VLE problem • place the learning material in a closed-access website • let students access this material from their familiar VLE • => open-ended

  10. Benefits • Image handling • Audio (and video) files • Flexibility

  11. The Future • Evaluation • Maintaining and developing • Model for materials exchange scheme? • Disseminating best practice • Identifying future users

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