Update:

The information session was successfully held on Jan.27, 2022.

The recorded session is published on the following web link:

https://celt.indiana.edu/portal/btaa.html

Original News

The Center for Language Technology (CeLT) is hosting an information session about the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Course Share on January 27^th, 2022 (Thursday) 2:30-4:00 PM through Zoom. The purpose of this info session is to introduce the valuable opportunities provided by the BTAA LCTL Course Share program for both language instructors and students.

Please register for the event at https://events.iu.edu/celt/event/404475-1.  If you know of any IU colleague who might be interested in this info session, please feel free to forward this message.

_{The BTAA LCTL Course Share program was established by the Big Ten Academic Alliance Liberal Arts and Sciences Deans in 2005, and since 2009 has served to provide a systematic method for sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) among Big Ten institutes. This arrangement allows IU students to take LCTL language courses not offered at IU but offered by another Big Ten institute via distance education, with the course treated (for tuition and credit purposes) as if it were a standard IU course. It also allows other Big Ten students to take LCTL language courses through IU as if it were a course at their own institute. For a number of years, IU has been involved in both directions of hosting and receiving, and has become notable within the program as an institution with very strong hosting offerings.} 

We recommend that you attend this info session if you are:

• A language program director or coordinator
• An academic advisor
• Instructors who are teaching or will teach BTAA language courses
• A language instructor (including AI and FLTA) who teaches an LCTL course
• Area studies or linguistic department faculty who mentor students who might be interested in an LCTL language that is not always offered at IU

Through this meeting you will:

• Learn about the BTAA LCTL Course Share program, its mission and general policy
• Understand how the BTAA LCTL Course Share is coordinated—how two institutes reach agreement, how students are enrolled and graded, technological arrangements, etc.
• Learn how BTAA LCTL Course Share courses are taught
• Have your questions about BTAA LCTL Course Share answered

A panel of staff and faculty who are involved in the coordination process or who have taught multiple BTAA Course Share LCTL courses will present from their perspectives.

Meeting Agenda

I.       Introduction of the background of BTAA Course Share for LCTL and the process of coordinating a course (presented by Xiaojing Kou, Director, Center for Language Technology and co-coordinator for IU BTAA LCTL Course Share)

II.       Presentation on data from past courses (by Jon Liechty, IU BTAA LCTL Course Share Coordinator and Office Coordinator for Center for Language Technology)

III.       Presentation by Panel Members on Various Aspects of BTAA LCTL Course Share

3. 1. Room reservation (by Jon Liechty, IU BTAA LCTL Course Share Coordinator and Office Coordinator for Center for Language Technology) 
   2. Enrollment (by Chrys Ford, IU registrar) 
   3. Grade entering (by Sofia Panigada, IU Registrar) 
   4. What is like teaching a BTAA Course Share language course? Experiences and Challenges (by Dr. Piibi-Kai Kivik, Language Program Coordinator, Central Eurasian Studies and Dr. Jeff Holdeman, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)
   5. Tech set up (Zoom, Cameras, Breakout room) and Tech Support (by Rebecca Ramsey, Audio/Video Specialist, Center for Language Technology, and Xiaojing Kou, CeLT) 
   6. Special CourseShare Program: Korean e-School (by Dr. Seung-Kyung Kim, Director of the Institute on Korean Studies, and Dr. John Finch, Associate Director, Institute for Korean Studies)
   7. Administrative perspective (Russel Valentino, Chair, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and Associate Dean for International Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences for 2016-2020)
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IV. Discussion: How to promote this opportunity to IU students (Demo by Jon Liechty, Discussion led by Xiaojing Kou and all participants are encouraged to participate)