1. Art, Science, or Both? Instructional Technology Collaborations among Liberal Arts Colleges Midwest Educause Regional Conference 2005 Nancy Millichap Midwest Instructional Technology Center (MITC)

2. Colleges and Universities Participating in the Midwest Instructional Technology Center Midwest Instructional Technology Center

3. Midwest Instructional Technology Center: Collaboration, Distributed 26 colleges (members of Associated Colleges of the Midwest and Great Lakes Colleges Association) in collaboration Quarterly RFP and review process Distributed programs: conferences, symposia, technology workshops, projects Faculty, library, and IT staff teambuilding Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, moving to sustainable model with participant fees www.midwest-itc.org

4. Collaboration: Art or Science? Developing new professional networks? (Create.) Art. Doing something new inter-institutionally? (Experiment.) Science. Assuring needed materials and using them together? (Provide and support.) Both.

5. Collaboration as Art: Developing a New Professional Network Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges (ITLAC) annual conference Preconference workshops Seminar Retreat MITC Fellows Program

6. Collaborative professional development What’s in it for instructional technologists? Advice and support New skills New relationships … a sense of community

7. Collaboration as Science: Creating New Shared Resources Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS) ideas.midwest-itc.org

8. IDEAS Collaboration Collaborating colleges St. Olaf College Earlham College Lake Forest College Colorado College Collaborating professionals Faculty members (discipline knowledge - and pictures) Technologists (knowledge of systems and applications) Librarians (knowledge of standards and metadata)

9. National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) “Connecting the dots” Providing coordination among three regional Centers - MITC, CET in Northeast, ACSTC in South) serving 81 liberal arts colleges Developing programs of cross-regional interest Partnering with national organizations such as CNI and CLIR Informing the liberal arts community about technology developments http://www.nitle.org

10. Institutions Participating in NITLE

11. Collaboration as Art and Science: Extensive Curricular Resources Arab Culture and Civilization web site and al-Musharaka teaching collaborative http://arabworld.nitle.org

12. MITC and NITLE Collaborations: Take-home Messages Collaborators are both artists (creators) and scientists (experimenters). Liberal arts colleges are collaborating - and in the process developing useful things. Successful collaboration within a specific sector produces results and resources that benefit both that sector and others. http://ideas.midwest-itc.org http://arabworld.nitle.org