Founded in 2014, LACOL is a partnership of Amherst College, Bryn Mawr College, Carleton College, Davidson College, Hamilton College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Vassar College, Washington and Lee University, and Williams College.
From their website, "LACOL leverages the power of consortial relationships to promote excellent and innovative teaching, learning, and research in the liberal arts, with a special emphasis on utilizing and adapting emerging technologies. It prioritizes collaboration among its member schools, focusing on projects that they can accomplish jointly that would be less robust or impossible for any of them to undertake alone. LACOL encourages experimentation to develop, share, and assess the most effective modes of digital teaching and learning.”
Areas of Focus:
Technology Enhanced Learning & Educational Innovation ~ Digital Humanities ~ History of Book/Print Culture Studies ~ Visual Studies, Editorial Cartoons & Comics ~ Latin America/Latinx ~ Medieval & Renaissance Studies
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Areas of Focus:
Impacts of climate change on plants and the subsequent consequences for energy and water cycling across desert, boreal, and Arctic ecosystems.
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Contemporary French and francophone literature, culture, and film
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Areas of Focus: Augmented & Virtual Reality
Areas of Focus: Augmented & Virtual Reality ~ Video and Audio Production ~ 3D Scanning, Modelling, & Printing ~ Music Notation ~ Lecture Capture, Note Taking and Annotation ~ Learning Management Systems (LMS) ~ Web Design ~ Photography
Liaison Areas: Africana Studies ~ Asian Studies ~ Classics and Ancient Civilizations ~ Dance and Movement Studies ~ History ~ Literature and Creative Writing ~ Medieval and Renaissance Studies ~ Middle East and Islamic World Studies ~ Religious Studies ~ Russian Studies ~ Theatre
Liaison Areas: Cinema and Media Studies ~ East Asian Languages and Literatures ~ First Year Experience ~ French and Francophone Studies ~ German and Russian Languages and Literatures ~ Hispanic Studies ~ Latin American Studies ~ Opportunity Programs
Liaison Areas: Data analysis for all departments
LACOL 2021 logo design by Mark Mullin, Senior Director of Visual Communications.