<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-style: normal">Hello,</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I
wanted to write a quick introduction for myself and my interests in
the themes coming together around the upcoming meeting in New York. My name is Mark Hayward and I'm part of a team of people working at the American University of
Paris on how to incorporate digital tools into smaller universities
while remaining attentive to the specific cultural context in which
the university is situated as well as the wide variety of backgrounds
from which our students come. Some of this project has taken shape as
part of an exchange with the friendly people at Eugene Lang College
in New York and some of it has taken shape in dialogue with other
“liberal arts” colleges outside of the US.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">My
interests have lead to me (and my collaborators) to propose a session
for thinking about how smaller schools and universities might
implement digital tools in a more international context. It's our
intention to think about this both as an issue of curriculum as well
as funding (because sometimes things get too expensive quickly.)
Although many of the discussions that have been taken place on this
list so far have been talking about different contexts from small
colleges and universities, I'm finding a lot of similar questions
being address from different angles and approaches.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I'd be
grateful to hear of any interesting projects you know of taking place
at smaller institutions (especially those under 2000 students.) We are
particularly interested in people working in non-US contexts as we've
found translating some projects into the French context have raised a
variety of obstacles (not the least of which were technical.)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-style: normal">Mark
Hayward</span></p>