NEW BRITAIN - The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium is the recipient of a three-year $450,889 grant for the development of improved academic services for online college students in Connecticut.
Participants include Naugatuck Valley Community College, Teikyo Post University and the University of Connecticut.
These services will include the creation of an electronic academic portfolio platform, online tutoring and online technology training.
The grant is awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, whose grant competition seeks to support the implementation of innovative educational reform ideas, to evaluate how well they work and to share the lessons learned with the larger education community.
The CTDLC is one of 60 chosen for this prestigious award from approximately 123 finalists and hundreds of preliminary proposals nationwide.
"We are very excited about this project," said Ed Klonoski, director of the CTDLC. "Creating academic services for online students is an important area of new development for higher education and developing administrative and technical solutions statewide should produce the synergies, cost savings and efficiencies that consortia and virtual universities will want to model nationwide."
More information about the CTDLC may be found at www.ctdlc.org.
