A-HEC: What type of partnerships are you ideally looking for with other institutions that may be interested in Scenarios?

SS: We are especially interested in partnering to customize existing courses to address a college’s specific needs, and to create new curriculum that will be of value to our partners and other institutions.

A-HEC: How important is it for colleges to collaborate in advancing the state of faculty development and other attributes of the learning college? What areas do you think are most ripe for inter-institutional collaboration?

SS: The very isolation we notice easily among classroom teachers is just as true of whole institutions. Most of us are guilty of the “not-invented-here” syndrome. This drives the cost of most innovations to unsustainable levels. Collaboration is the best way to reduce cost while creating a shared theory of practice among our faculty. Instead of constantly investing in one pilot project after another, the real challenge is to bring a few solutions to scale. Again, collaboration makes this economically feasible. Developing new content in areas such as legal issues in the classroom, assessment techniques for improving learning, building rich web-enabled classes, etc. would all be highly desirable.