Those institutions which had expressed an interest in supporting the pilot were invited to contribute courses from their existing portfolios.
Global Education Network, a company founded partly by Herb Allen, the president of the venture-capital firm Allen & Co., has approached Williams and Brown University, among others, with an invitation to contribute course material to a proposed for-profit Web site providing on line liberal arts education for adults.
Older students could actually participate in designing the courses, contributing to politics courses what they are encountering in teenage and school politics, including the power plays of bullying.
In 2007, Mr. Ricchio started a festively debauched event now known as Deathmatch, a kind of extended "Iron Chef" dinner, with each invited chef contributing a course.
In this paper, we use the term "summative assessment" with reference to assessment contributing to course grades, while "formative assessment" refers to assessment as a tool to aid the learning of students but without grading.
Cardean University Columbia's School of Business has contributed seven courses to Cardean University's online MBA program, including Managing Organizations and Leading Change.
These approaches can contribute to courses in curriculum design and help designers build on widely used materials to improve student learning.
Although the components contributing to final course grade changed across the study, this "C−" cutoff for entering the biology major remained consistent.
The students were informed that participation in the study was voluntary, that it would have no influence upon their subject grade, and did not contribute towards course credit.
The degrees would have a distinctly professional feel to them, with courses contributing to industry-specific qualifications and skills.
