Center on Russia and the United States :: Programs and Activities :: Online Collaboration
New educational technologies have made it possible to offer students new forms of international experience. Applications of such technologies are now being explored with Russian partner universities. Among the possibilities now either underway or being developed are dual diploma programs that are in part or entirely delivered on-line, or on-line courses that are team taught by SUNY and international professors with SUNY and international students enrolled. SUNY has an extensive on-line teaching capacity through the SUNY Learning Network(SLN), which is working with the SUNY Office of International Programs and the Center for International On-Line Collaborative Learning, located at the SUNY Purchase campus, to encourage more SUNY courses and degree programs delivered on-line in collaboration with international partners and with international students.
Moscow State University
Fall 2005
The Dual BS Diploma program in Financial Services between SUNY Canton and the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University includes delivering the SUNY component of the program on line to students in Moscow.
June 2004
Professor Alla Nazarenko of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, who served as Moscow State University's Co-director at the Center on Russia and the United States in Albany during the 2002-2003 academic year, organized a conference at Moscow State University in June, 2004, to examine the application of on-line pedagogy in the teaching of foreign languages. In addition to advancing Center projects at several SUNY campuses, Professor Nazarenko used her time at the Center's Albany office to train herself to use the SLN online system.
Spring 2004
Students at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies participated during the spring 2004 semester in an on-line course in Social Control taught by a sociologist at SUNY's College at Cortland, which had students from New York, Moscow, Minsk and Australia studying together. The course is being taught again in spring 2006.