These areas are: Administrative Issues, Planning and Skills
Enhancement, Curriculum and Program Enhancement, and Continuing
Education Programs. The project will culminate with the
development of plans for future cooperation between the
partners and efforts to expand the benefits of the project
to other Bolivian universities.
Administrators
and faculty from all three institutions will make several
trips to each other's campuses to exchange information;
to give presentations; and to attend presentations.
The
project outcomes are as follows:
Preliminary
Phase:
Information
exchanged between partners on the general
nature of their institutions and the challenges
they face. Working relationships between
project managers created.
All
partners become familiar with planning,
budgeting, and management in other institutions.
Partners prepared for discussion on these
issues in next project phase.
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Administrative Issues, Planning, and Skills Enhancement:
Key personnel attend the ALO Synergy Conference
in Washington D.C. to learn various aspects of ALO
projects.
Bolivian
representatives learn WIU processes and become
prepared to discuss what the topics of future
seminars and/or short courses on planning and
budgeting processes should be.
The
seminars and short courses on planning, budgeting,
and management will be developed. Seminars and
short courses on planning, budgeting, and management
will be conducted.
Curriculum
and Program Enhancement:
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Information
on curriculum and programs will be exchanged.
Prepared to gather information on business
needs with regard to courses, course content,
and degrees.
WIU
representatives will understand current
practices in Bolivian partners with regard
to curriculum analysis, quality assurance,
and faculty enhancement.
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Bolivian
universities will know what business needs are
with regard to courses, course content, and degrees.
Partners
will understand processes and problems related
to curriculum development, course development
and improvement, different methods of course delivery,
and assessment of learning in partner institutions.
Bolivian
representatives will learn WIU practices with regard
to curriculum, quality assurance, and enhancement.
Continuing
Education:
Bolivian
universities will learn WIU practices for
developing and delivering successful continuing
education programs.
Bolivian
institutions will work with businesses to
determine continuing education needs of
their constituents.
Ideas
developed so far will be shared, critiqued,
and revised with the assistance of WIU faculty
and administrators.
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Bolivian
universities will have an initial series of continuing
education programs they have developed for potential
presentation.
Plans for Future Cooperation:
Ideas
for further cooperative arrangements between the institutional
partners will be developed.
Final
meeting to review all activities, determine successes,
and develop recommendations for future topics.
Meeting
to develop a series of activities that will sustain
the collaboration between the three partners.
Plans
to extend the benefits of the project to other Bolivian
universities will be developed.
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