Beyond the enhancement of course content and student learning, support and retention, this initiative offers institutions intriguing added value. Collaboration in course development and execution affords faculty support in working with technology and venturing into the world of cyber-teaching and learning. The five seats are assigned a related but distinct section number. A more challenging aspect of this initiative is the coordination of coursework, interdisciplinizing of course content, and team-teaching. The fundamental understanding of the interdisciplinary technique was already present and the foundations of combined contents and team-teaching were already there.
Mediocrity seems unavoidable.
But some level of collaborative depth and structure in curriculum may be attained by strategies modeled in the UC Net classes such as having a shared online library of whole texts, articles and lectures to which the narratives in each course can link. My presentation will attempt to demonstrate facets of the Undergraduate Center program elucidated above.