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	The "LearningTimes Global Collaboration Grant Program" was launched to help those with valuable learning-related projects to collaborate with colleagues with whom real-time human contact would otherwise be impossible. The LearningTimes Global Collaboration Grants (LT-GCGs) provide recipients with special access to a range of collaborative tools and communications expertise resident within the LearningTimes Network.

	Grant recipients -- a distinguished group of educators from around the globe -- are asked to periodically update the LearningTimes membership at large about the progress of their work and the lessons they have learned in using educational technologies to work with remote colleagues. Showcased below are some of the current LT-GCG recipients who are actively engaged in projects within LearningTimes. This page is periodically updated to highlight different grantees:

The following LearningTimes.org sponsors have helped make the Global Collaboration Grants possible:

Spotlight on LT-GCG Recipient:

Dr. Bruce Neubauer
Computer Science and Information Systems
Pittsburg State University
Kansas

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Dr. Bruce Neubauer teaches Database and MIS-related courses in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pittsburg State University.

Dr. Neubauer has been using his LearningTimes Global Collaboration Grant to work with colleagues in Georgia and Australia. They have recently completed a paper on e-government as related to chaos theory and democratic theory, which has been submitted to the journal Administration & Society. They have used collaboration tools within LearningTimes and plan to show the virtual tools they used at a conference of the Central Plains Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges in April of 2004.

Says Neubauer: "My use of the office under the grant involves virtual scholarly collaboration and making others aware of the value of such resources."

Fernanda Ibarra
Mexico

Fernanda Ibarra, formerly of Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico, is part of a working group focused on the development of a prototype model for online learning based on the formation of online learning communities of practice.

"Our project is based on the need to train online learning professionals in the spanish speaking world, " said Ibarra. "The whole project is based on a Virtual Community of Practice model where people can get trained, interact and learn from each other."

To kick off their project, Ibarra's team decided to begin with the elaboration of an instructional design course for the web, that could be taken by instructional designers, subject-matter experts, trainers, teachers or anyone interested in building courses for the web. This course is in collaboration effort with the World Association of Online Education (WAOE) which assigned a team to work with Ibarra and her colleagues in the activities and course evaluation.

Says Ibarra: "Thanks to the 'LearningTimes Global Collaboration Grant' we have a virtual office that allows us to collaborate with the project participants which are spread around the world, mainly US, Argentina and different cities of Mexico. We also have the possibility to make professional online presentations to potential funders of the project."