Collaborative Campus: The Project

Christy Desmet

The Project

The "Collaborative Campus" project was funded by a University System of Georgia Teaching and Learning grant ($19,000). The experimental class involved teachers and students from three campuses:

The University of Georgia: the system's flagship campus and the principal four-year liberal arts and land grant institution for the state.
Georgia Institute of Technology: the system's premiere technological institute, drawing a highly qualified group of students from Georgia and nationwide.
Gainesville College: one of the most highly regarded two-year schools in the system and a "feeder school" for both the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech.

The course and its technological resources were developed by Greg VanHoosier-Carey and Lissa Holloway-Attaway at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Lissa developed and taught the pilot class. The first attempt at cross-campus collaboration, between Lissa's class at Georgia Tech and Patsy Worrall's class at Gainesville College, followed. In Spring 2000, after a summer and fall of planning, we taught the first Collaborative Campus class involving all three campuses. Lissa taught two classes (and a total of about 50 students); Patsy taught two classes (and a total of about 30 students). Angela and Laura each taught one class, with 14 students in each class.