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Going Global, Locally: Geographically Distributed Collaborative Learning Environments for Studies of Globalisation and the Information Society
Derrick Cogburn, School of Information and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
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The Collaboratory on Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (www.Cotelco.net) was created in 1999 as a strategic initiative bringing together faculty, students, and staff from the University of Michigan with those from other leading universities in the U.S. and South Africa. From January to April each year, Cotelco conducts a Global Graduate Seminar on "Globalisation and the Information Society." The Globalisation Seminar is an advanced, interdisciplinary course that uses synchronous and asynchronous learning techniques and a suite of web-based collaborative tools to create a globally-networked collaborative learning environment to study the social, political, economic, and technological aspects of globalisation and the emergence of the information society.