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Networked Learning Communites Funded!
ICS/DOE Team wins$6 million award
A consortium led by the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaiëi at Manoa (UHM) has received a $6 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve science, math, and technology education in the stateís rural public schools.The initiative, known as the Hawaiëi Networked Learning Communities (HNLC), is part of NSFís Rural Systemic Initiatives program. Funds will be used to deliver high quality teaching and learning opportunities to approximately 60 elementary and secondary schools in rural areas statewide. As teachers receive training and school-university partnerships are established, at least 24,000 students will benefit through new curriculum and projects.
The principal investigators for the Hawaiëi Networked Learning Communities project are Victoria Kajioka, director, DOE Advanced Technology Research; Daniel Suthers, assistant professor, and director of LILT, UHM Department of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS); and Violet Harada, associate professor, ICS, Library and Information Science Program.
ICS will develop an interactive, on-line center (virtual community center) that links schools across the islands with science and math experts and resources locally and nationally.
The UH press release is available at http://www.hawaii.edu/ur/News_Releases/NR_Oct01/hnlc.htm Further information about HNLC may be found at http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/lilt/outreach/hnlc.html and http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/hnlc/