What is the Weatherhead Connection?

The Weatherhead Connection is an evolving set of e-Learning projects initiated with funding from a three-year grant from the Cleveland Foundation.

Connection projects fall into any of the following categories:

1) development of new and innovative instructional approaches by using web-based technologies. This covers development of course modules or frameworks for organizing course contents or specific approaches to integrate web based teaching in the classroom;

2) development of community portals that can improve applied research or improve either research or teaching in the school or improve the school’s ties with its stakeholders;

3) development of e-journals that help publish original research work or make available to the larger public research results from the school;

4) design and implementation of teaching technologies which improve teaching processes in classrooms or outside the classroom, or help integrate them better with research.

In addition to funded projects, at the request of members of the Weatherhead community, the Connection team has created projects like the Weatherhead Events Calendar (integrated with the FrontDoor portal site), Weatherhead in the News: Media Clips database and the Action Learning (Weatherhead's flagship consulting course) site. Many of these projects have been based on deliverables associated with the funded projects -- then applied in a new way (see @Weatherhead).

In 2002, the team began acquiring professional-grade media production equipment with the intention of taking our projects to the next level. In design and development are the Weatherhead Audio/Video Library (to serve up live and 'on demand' media, a video-enhanced Syllabus Server and media-enhanced tutorials and lectures.

Welcome to "Connections We've Made", a living chronicle of the Weatherhead Connection initiative.