...conducted recently, however, us wonder if both the hazards and benefits of educational technology may look quite different from what most of us have imagined.

Expanding the Scope and Curriculum of Classics Education

For three years, we analyzed the workings of Sunoikisis, a program that is changing the way classics is taught in over a dozen liberal arts colleges. Sunoikisis, a virtual classics department, was designed by the Mellon Foundation and members of an educational consortium, the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), in hopes of expanding the scope and curriculum of classics education across these institutions. Sunoikisis courses blend online lectures and discussion with face-to-face tutorials on each student's home campus. Through this program, students have the opportunity to study more advanced and diverse subjects than their own departments can offer. In the words of one student, the variety of lecturers provides "a much wider perspective than the bubble or mindset" that can characterize small departments, especially.

In this virtual liberal arts classroom, students also reported feeling more responsible for their own learning. "It can be tempting to learn to write for one professor," one student said about traditional classes. In Sunoikisis, though, he realized that...

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