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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Simmons College Awarded National Grant to Demonstrate Effective Blending of Classroom and Online Learning
Simmons College in Boston recently became the first private college in the nation to be awarded a grant from the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to demonstrate that small colleges can offer high quality courses that combine classroom and online learning, while still maintaining close student/faculty relationships. The Sloan Foundation awarded Simmons $225,000 to support two innovative blended learning initiatives that combine classroom and online student/teacher interactions in the Simmons School for Health Studies, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The goal of the Sloan program is to make high quality education available anytime, anywhere, for those motivated to seek it. Course participants can access their courses at all times, from any location, through the Internet. The online and face-to-face course components are designed as an integrated learning experience: each mode of learning is an extension of the other. The Sloan Foundation selected Simmons College for the award to demonstrate the viability of blended learning at small private institutions, to help dispel misconceptions about the level of faculty/student attentiveness the format can support.
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