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15 Library Schools Share Quality Online Courses via WISE Consortium

Fifteen library and information science (LIS) schools share online courses with each other’s students via WISE, the Web-based Information Science Education Consortium. Through the award-winning distance education program, the schools provide students with elective courses that are high quality, cost-effective, and diverse. In the past four years. WISE schools have offered more than 330 courses to more than 550 students. The project received two Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to provide faculty with online training in distance education pedagogy, to recruit partner schools, and to collaborate with LIS organizations to develop graduate and continuing education courses. Read more.

 WISE students are enriched by new online course opportunities. Photo by Susan Kahn.
July 2008 | Tennessee Aquarium
Students on a Learning Expedition at the Chattanooga Nature Center dig for fossils.   Seven Chattanooga museums, working closely with school principals, teachers, and parents, are using museum collections to enhance and energize the curricula of two museum magnet schools in Magnifying the Museums: Enhancing Chattanooga’s Museum Magnet School Partnership. Read more
June 2008 | Western Council of State Libraries
Gordon Yellowman, a Cheyenne Peace Chief, performs a sage blessing at the beginning of the conference, along with his daughter, Cricket.   Native American archivists, librarians, cultural directors, educators, museum staff members, and elders are creating communities to support tribal cultural preservation through a series of national conferences, institutes, and workshops.
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May 2008 | Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago
Lamassu, 721 BC - 705 BC, courtesy of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago.   Students across the country are digging into the secrets of ancient Mesopotamia through a teaching Web site called Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History, which allows students to direct virtual archeological expeditions and curate museum exhibits with the excavated artifacts. Read more
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