HistoryThe
Virtual Campus Project grew out of discussions among faculty and
staff from Smolny and Bard College. Particularly important was
the involvement of St. Petersburg State University's Interdisciplinary
Center for Advanced Professional Education (ICAPE),
which cooperates closely with Smolny, and of Academic Computing
staff at Bard College.
FundingThe
Project is funded by a generous grant from The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The
Future The Project is experimental; to our knowledge, no
one has used distance technology for joint course development
and teaching involving partners abroad.
In
addition to the Bard College-Smolny cooperation, we envision that
the Virtual Campus will soon accommodate collaborative learning
projects that bring Bard College faculty and students together
with peers at:
