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Irvine Pilots Online Grammar Program
UC Irvine's Division of Undergraduate Education has received a $113,000
federal grant to support the year-long testing of a new online grammar
program called "Grammar From the Ground Up." The program
will be tested at both UCI and Irvine Valley Community College.
According to Meredith Lee, dean of undergraduate education at UCI,
the program promotes active student learning and writing, providing
students online access to writing specialists who correct and comment
on their work.
"By integrating online writing practice with feedback from
writing specialists, this program encourages students to become
fully engaged in developing strong writing abilities during their
first years at UCI," said Lee.
The U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education (FIPSE) supports innovative educational reform projects
and is especially interested in promoting programs that can serve
as national models for improving postsecondary education. The Grammar
From the Ground Up program was one of 125 proposals funded by FIPSE
this year from more than 2,000 applications.
For more information, contact Sue Cross, writing specialist at (949)
824-4191; secross@uci.edu
Library Books Go Online
UC Irvine recently implemented a pilot program, providing over 700
e-books online for students, faculty and staff. The primary goal
of the program is to offer more texts to a greater number of readers.
Books and reference materials are offered in all fields and can
be read from a desktop computer or a palm pilot. Prior to the new
program, only excerpts from periodicals were available online. There
are more non-fiction than fiction books and more new books than
old ones, because it is easier to digitalize newer books than it
is to digitalize older ones.
The program will run through the end of 2001, at which time it will
be reassessed by both students and faculty, whose recommendations
will be incorporated into future online offerings.
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