Collaboration in materials development: A glimpse at the LCTL Partnership processes and materials

Collaboration in materials development: A glimpse at the LCTL Partnership processes and materials

Presenters: Dr. Emily Heidrich and Dr. Koen Van Gorp
The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership, a grant project funded by the Mellon Foundation, has been underway for over a year now. We have started to pilot Swahili instructional materials developed in Year 1 of the project. We will speak about the successes and stumbling blocks we have encountered in working collaboratively across Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions to develop not only this project on the larger scale, but the collaborative processes involved in materials ideation and development.

Participants will come away from this session knowing more about the project as a whole and will gain ideas that they can implement into their own classrooms. The presenters will encourage discussion and solicit feedback on the materials presented, focusing on ways that materials can be continually tweaked and improved to fit the needs of the instructor and class at hand.