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A WORLD-WIDE

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
 
 

 

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

 

The World-Wide Learning Environment (WLE) is a three-year initiative that supports the expansion of faculty and undergraduate student participation in international learning experiences by broadening and enhancing the kinds of experiences available.  Specifically, the project will invite faculty innovation in the form of internally competitive proposals that focus on undergraduate international experiences, establish sustainable educational relationships with institutions abroad, and incorporate cutting edge information technology that will enhance such educational opportunities.  The goal is not only to increase the numbers of international learning experiences available for undergraduates and the number of students participating, but also to transform these experiences by leveraging the university’s information technology structure.  Faculty will be assisted and supported in this process by institutional expertise in education, technology, and grant and fellowship support that will be conveyed to interested faculty in seminars required of all applicants.  We envision WLE funding as seed money that will help faculty launch successful programs and seek proposals that 1) are educationally innovative 2) employ technology to broaden students’ access to international experiences, and 3) will be sustainable programmatically and financially by attracting external funding

Proposals are sought to develop new and innovative ways to build international experiences into the educational lives of Case's undergraduates through:

  1. exploration of  issues that are relevant internationally through establishing international ties in courses and programs
  2. the use of advanced educational and communication technologies
  3. innovative teaching and learning initiatives

 

Towards this end, we seek to fund faculty proposals through six rounds of applications over the three academic years, 2006-2009. We anticipate that most proposals will be funded in the $5,000-$12,000 range, meaning that we can expect to support 6-10 initiatives per academic year.  Proposals with more modest budgets also are encouraged.  Support will not be available for student scholarships, travel, or expenses.  Projects should not exceed 12 months in length, and must be completed by the designated date in the award letter, generally 15-18 months from the time of award.