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In 1997, ION was a collaboration between ten community colleges and the
University of Illinois. From these original ten founding partners, ION grew
until all 48 community colleges in Illinois along with the University of
Illinois now form the founding members of ION. As part of this partnership,
all founding partners have members within the ION steering
committee to help
define goals and directions for ION's future and present.
ION's full range of services (with the current exception of discounted Advanced
Online Seminars), are offered free of charge to ION founding partners. Founding
partners can schedule presentations/workshops at their institution, send
attendees to the Faculty Summer Institute (FSI), take MVCR courses, etc.
without charge.
All founding partners of ION have received benefits from their involvement.
All have had students in the MVCR series of courses, and 28 founding institutions
currently have faculty who have received our Master Online Teaching Certificate.
We have completed workshops at 33 founding partners so far with all but 3
sending faculty to our FSI. The benefits are also seen in that 4 institutions
have had faculty complete Pointer
and Clicker articles for the ION Web site,
and 6 institutions have had faculty complete Case
Studies for the ION Web site.
Furthermore, the benefits of ION partnership have been clear in the number
and quality of online courses that have been developed and taught at these
institutions that help bring Illinois to the forefront in educational technology
worldwide.
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