Early in 1996, the Presidents and Chancellors
of Illinois public universities requested support from the
Illinois Board of Higher Education for an Interinstitutional
Faculty Summer Institute on Learning Technologies. The idea
was to accomplish together what would be less efficient and
effective for each campus to do alone. The institute proved
quite popular with attendees and in fall 2001 it was decided
to transfer funding to the Urbana campus of the University
of Illinois. FSI continues true to its original conception
in this new mode.
Faculty members from across Illinois have come together on the Urbana campus to collaborate on the integration of networked information technologies into the curriculum. Each campus has sent a team of faculty members and instructional support personnel to the Institute. The goals of the Institute are:
- To introduce faculty to the use of learning technologies such as the World Wide Web and asynchronous conferencing
- To create a network for sharing in the development of the curriculum and use of learning technologies
The Institute is sponsored by:
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