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Readiness Grant & Institute Host Proposals submitted for OLN Governing Board Approval

Implementation Grant Proposals submitted for OLN Governing Board Approval

Kick-Off Event
Westin Great Southern Hotel
Columbus, Ohio

The Gathering
Columbus State Community College

2004-'05 LCI
Grants submitted
& OLN Governing Board Approval

Kick-Off Institute at Miami University

LC Expo: Transforming Learning Across Ohio
J. Gilbert Reese Center

The spark that resulted in the Ohio Learning Network Learning Communities Initiative (LCI) originated from the Ohio Learning Network Innovative Learning and Teaching Committee. The Core LCI Planning team consists of the following committee members who have contributed greatly to the success of the LCI: Cathy Bennet, Sandy Crobar, Wayne Hall, Sheryl Hansen, Mary Lou Holly, Alan Kalish, Dan Madigan, and Mark McBride.

Click here for an introduction and pre-history of the OLN LCI (Adobe PDF).

The OLN Governing Board approves $93,000 in funding for 31 out of 42 proposals submitted by Ohio faculty to start new learning communities (LCs), or to expand existing LC initiatives on their campuses. Almost 300 faculty and partners are involved in the LCs.

5/12 proposals submitted by institutions seeking to host LCI Learning Institutes also received a total of $375,000 in funds. In addition, Columbus State CC received $75,000 to host a wrap-up event slated for June 2003.

Thirty-one LCs that received Readiness Grants submit Implementation grant proposals. The OLN Governing Board approves an additional $775,000 in Implementation Grant funding for the 31 LCs. Read the news release.

More than 180 LC members from 32 Ohio institutions converged to learn more about sustaining successful learning communities.

Participants mingled for the first time and learned about each project. LCs also got a preview of the January Learning Institute agendas and contributed ideas for content based on the needs of their own community members. View the Kick-Off Event archives including streaming video .

View the session evaluation data (Adobe PDF).
View the event evaluation data (Adobe PDF).

LCs from the following were represented: Belmont Technical College, Bowling Green State University, Columbus State Community College, Kent State University, Ohio University-Zanesville, and Youngstown State University.

Total attendees: 34

Participant Evaluation Data including comments.

LCs from the following were represented: University of Akron, University of Dayton, The University of Findlay, University of Toledo, Wright State University.

Total attendees: 32

Participant Evaluation Data including comments.

LCs from the following were represented: Bluffton College, Bowling Green State University, Kent State University, Lorain County Community College, Owens Community College, Ohio University.

Total attendees: 67

Kent State University's January Learning Institute Web Site (updated Jan. 2004).

LCs from the following were represented: Franciscan University of Steubenvile, Miami University, The Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, University of Dayton, Ursuline College.

Total attendees: 75

OSU's January Learning Institute Web Site.

LCs from the following were represented: Central State University, Cuyahoga Community College, Hocking College, University of Cincinnati, Youngstown State University.

Total attendees: 46

At this final all-community meeting, 135 LC members gathered in Columbus to network and discuss community stories, challenges, and accomplishments. All 31 communities held poster sessions in a Digital Interactive Showcase within CSCC's Center for Technology & Learning. LC members shared resources, insights, software, expertise, and advice with one another.

"I am convinced that this learning and sharing will ultimately influence the educational experience of thousands of students in Ohio." - Shah Hasan, Human Capacity Development, CSCC, and The Gathering planner. View the evaluations summary.

OLN partnered with Columbus State Community College to develop an online repository that holds resources created by OLN LCI communities.

Visit the E-Learning Athenaeum.

Eleven of the 31 LCs funded in 2002-'03 submit proposals for additional funds for expanding or extending ongoing community activities through 2003-'04.

All 11 LCs that submitted proposals were awarded a total of $94,795. Eight public and three independent institutions were awarded funding with 110 participating faculty and partners.

Twenty-seven proposals were submitted by Ohio faculty wanting to start new learning communities (LCs), or to expand existing learning community initiatives on their campuses.

Twenty-two communities from 17 public and four private institutions received $440,000 in grants. Over 200 faculty and partners make up the LC membership. View the news release .

OLN LCI participants are required to openly share any discoveries (outcomes or processes) statewide by 1) presenting their community's efforts at OLN LCI events; 2) adding resources to the E-Learning Athenaeum such as modules, case studies, policies, web sites; 3) adding courses to OLN's OhioLearns! Catalog of distance learning courses; and 4) providing detailed Case Studies of their community efforts to be shared via the WWW. (See each Community Profile to access their Case Studies, if available.)

Miami University jointly hosted the OLN Learning Communities Initiative Kick-Off Event and the Second Annual International Conference on Faculty Learning Communities (ICFLC). Eighty-five members from the 22 funded OLN LCI communities gathered to hear essential information for sustaining successful learning communities. They were also able to attend sessions of the ICFLC.

Main theme: Collaboration within the nexus of constructivism, active-learning pedagogies, and technology. For this Institute, Dr. Thomas Duffy and Dr. John Stinson were on hand as a key external resource experts. (See Dr. Thomas Duffy's web site and also Dr. John Stinson's web site for further information.)

UC Institute 2004

Main Theme : Learning Communities as Catalysts for Educational Change: Exploring Individual and Institutional Transformation

KSU Institute homepage.

* January 13: evening pre-institute reception

Main Theme : The Cultural, Technical and Leadership Perspectives of Collaboration

OSU Institute homepage.

At this culminating meeting of all 2004-05 LCI funded communities, community members gathered and discussed their stories, challenges, and accomplishments. How have OLN-funded LCs impacted learning in Ohio?
Come find out!

The Reese Center is on the campus of the Central Ohio Technical College in Newark, OH.