Collaborative Learning Across the Miles
American college breaks down the barriers to create online distance learning courses with an exiled Lithuanian university
By Bridget McCrea02/03/10
Establishing ties between domestic and international colleges is one thing, but when the overseas institution has been forced into exile by its home country, the situation becomes a bit more complex.
SUNY Ulster of New York learned this about a year ago when it first collaborated with European Humanities University (EHU). The latter is a Belarusian university that was founded in Minsk in 1992 but was, according to the school, "forcibly closed" by the government in 2004. According to the EHU Web site, the school reopened in Vilnius in 2005 and was granted the status of a Lithuanian university in 2006. Read on...
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