Halford Haskell, Professor of Classics, and Thomas Howe, Professor of Art History, Southwestern University; Kenny Morrell, Associate Professor of Classics, Rhodes College The development of critical thinking through synchronous interaction among students and faculty is indispensable to the identities and missions of residential liberal arts institutions. Yet the increasing abundance of digital materials poses questions about the role of asynchronous instruction. We discuss new virtual, shared spaces and ways of shaping these spaces to expand curricular possibilities while maintaining our intimate environments, citing specific, evolving models within Sunoikisis, an inter-institutional initiative in the field of classics.

1. Shaping the Future:
Shaping the Environments
Synchronous Learning
Future:
Synchronous Campus, AcrossEnvironments
Across the Learning the World
Across the Campus, Across the World
HalfordHaskell
Southwestern University
Thomas Howe
Southwestern University;
FondazioneRestoring Ancient Stabiae
Kenny Morrell
Center for Hellenic Studies
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2. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
Associated Colleges of the South
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3. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
Associated Colleges of the South
Telemachos and Penelope
Attic redfigure skyphos, Chiusi, Penelope Painter

4. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
Associated Colleges of the South
Mellon Foundation
NITLE
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5. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
Associated Colleges of the South
Thucydides (5th BCE):
alliance of individual
city-states for a
common purpose

6. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
Sunoikisis seeks to
develop a set of
Associated Colleges of the South common goals and
achieve a degree of
success and
prominence that
goes beyond the
capacity of a single
campus program.

7. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
• Hacımusalar, Lycia, Turkey
• Kenchreai, Greece

8. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
• Hacımusalar, Lycia, Turkey
• Kenchreai, Greece

9. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
• Hacımusalar, Lycia, Turkey
• Kenchreai, Greece
1999
Synchronous classes
•faculty teaching
within expertise
•discussion
during class, with
faculty modelling

10. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
• Hacımusalar, Lycia, Turkey
• Kenchreai, Greece Asynchronous
exchanges
Synchronous classes
•faculty teaching
within expertise
•discussion
during class, with
faculty modelling

11. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
• Hacımusalar, Lycia, Turkey
• Kenchreai, Greece

12. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
•Latin and Greek courses

13. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
•Latin and Greek courses
Upper level Greek Sequence
• Homeric Poetry
• Lyric Poetry
• Comedy
• 4th Century Literature
• Hellenistic Literature

14. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
•Latin and Greek courses
Upper level Greek Sequence Upper level Latin Sequence
• Homeric Poetry • Early Republic
• Lyric Poetry • Late Republic
• Comedy • Neronian Period
• 4th Century Literature • Imperial Period 70-180 CE
• Hellenistic Literature • Late Antiquity/Medieval
Elementary Greek (Fall 2012)

15. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
•Latin and Greek courses
•Undergraduate Research Symposium

16. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
•Latin and Greek courses
•Undergraduate Research Symposium
•Study “Abroad”

17. Shaping the Future:
Synchronous Learning Environments
Across the Campus, Across the World
•Archaeological Field School Opportunities
•Latin and Greek courses
•Undergraduate Research Symposium
•Study “Abroad”
•Student Internships

18. Saving Study Abroad Through Synchronous Distance Learning:?
Linking Three Institutions:
The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education;
Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas;
The Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation, Italy
Naples
Oplontis
Herculaneum
Pompeii
The Villas of Ancient Stabiae
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19. The Challenge:
-Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S. produce about 4% of all graduates, but
also a disproportionate number of professional leaders.
-It is a very expensive type of education (usually), particularly because it
demands a low teacher-student ratio, and close interaction of good
teacher-professors and students in small classes.
-in the last ten years, many more students have entered international
careers, and therefore foreign experience and language education have
become essential to the value of a liberal arts education. (Now, including
China…)
-small colleges (well, all colleges, and students) in the U.S. are under
stringent financial stress, and study abroad is expensive, and interrupts
increasingly complicated majors. .
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20. The Challenge:
-Is Synchronous Distance learning capable of reconstructing the intimate
and immediate interaction of the classroom of small Liberal Arts
Colleges?
-Can it work internationally?
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21. The overseas institutional partner:
The Vesuvian Institute of the
Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation:
a multi-functioning research and study center on the Bay of Naples.
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22. Cumae
Baiae Neapolis
Ischia Misenum (Naples) Herculaneum
Puteoli Oplontis
Pompeii
Stabiae
The prime mission of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation:
To construct and maintain a large archaeological park on the site of
the ancient Roman villas of Stabiae, 4 km from Pompeii.
Stabiae is the largest concentration of well-preserved enormous seaside
villas in the entire Mediterranean.
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23. Buried in the same eruption that buried Pompeii in A.D. 79
Baiae Puteoli
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25. Villa San Marco, Reconstruction Model,
Albert Bui, Caitlin Allday, April Martin, Southwestern .University
Villa San Marco, Upper Peristyle, digital reconstruction, RAS/Capasso, 2004
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27. Digital reconstruction: RAS/Capware, 2004
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28. Archaeological Park at the Site of Stabiae:
-site with a coherent character Site of the
-create concentration activities on the site Vesuvian
-seven minute access from Pompei Institute
RAS/Tom Leader Studios/LVarone
X
Excavation: Villa Arianna,
And On-site museum?
Commuter rail station and
Funicular to Park
X
Excavation:
Villa San Marco
X
Projected global budget: c. euro 140 million,
First visitors’ center
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29. Management Structure: changing world archaeology
toward sustainable, shared management of major sites
-Master Plan 2001
-The Legal Structure of the Foundation (2002)consists of international board representation
from:
-The Superintendancy of Archaeology of Pompei (Prof. P.G. Guzzo)
-The School of Architecture of the University of Maryland (Prof. Matthew Bell)
-The Committee of Stabiae Reborn, Castellammare di Stabia (Notaio F. Spagnuolo)
Coordinator General: Prof. Thomas Howe
A non-profit cultural institution in Italy as the first foundation of its type created under a 1998 law which
allows for the creation of a new type of semi-public, semi-private institution which can both receive and
spend both state and private funds, from Italy and abroad.
-R.A.S. incorporation in the U.S., 2005 (Washington, D.C.), non-profit 501-3c
-Contratto di Sponsorizazzione, Jan. 2006. Gives RAS the concession to coordinate all other
institutions on the site for execution of Master Plan.
Global Budget: €140 million, 2/3 provided by the Region of Campania if 1/3 can be found by RAS
Foundation
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30. 1999 TNH
Villa San Marco, May, 2009 First conceptual sketch of
excavation area with descending
ramp to Roman street, June
1999 (TNH)
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31. Villa San Marco
Excavations of the Superintendancy
2007-2008:
Dot.sa Giovanna Bonfacio, site director
excavation directors:
Dott. Fabrizio Ruffo
Dott. Gennaro Iovino
Geom. E. Sabini, site supervisor
Mar. 2008
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33. Villa Arianna, Great Peristyle court (108 m. long), garden surface of A.D. 79,
Revealed June-July, 2007 W W W . S T A B I A E . O R G
Excavations conducted by the Superintendancy of Pompei, Dr. Giovanna Bonifacio, site director, geom. Enzo Sabini,
excavation supervisor; field drawings, summer, 2007, Profs. Lindley Vann, Ian Sutherland, and UMd Students.

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June, 2008

35. The Visitors’ Center:
A “Private” Building on a public site
Visitors’ services under RAS management.
May, 2009
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36. Four-Year Traveling U.S. Tour:
“In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient
Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite”
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., April 27-Oct. 24, 2004
ARKANSAS ART CENTER, Little Rock, AR
January 28 – April 14, 2005
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART, Reno, NE
October 7 2005 – Jan 5, 2006
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART, San Diego, CA
February 18 – May 14, 2006
MICHAEL C. CARLOS, EMORY U., Atlanta, GA
August – October, 2006
TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, Toledo, OH
Nov. 11, 2006, Jan. 28, 2007
CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART, U. WISCONSIN, Madison, WI
March 17 – June 3, 2007
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART, Dallas, TX
July 8 – October 7, 2007
THE CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS, Jacksonville, FL
November 7, 2007 - Feb 3, 2008
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37. HERMITAGE STATE MUSEUMS, HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART
St. Petersburg, (18 Jul - 5 Oct 2008)
Dec. 7, 2007-March 30, 2008
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38. The Vesuvian International Institute for Archaeology and Humanities
of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation
June 15, 2007 Open for International
Educational Groups
-A former Salesian College
-A residential center for undergraduate and graduate international
programs for students and researchers in archaeology, medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque art and history, History of Opera,
Neapolitan folk music, architecture, etc.…
-Hosting academic credit programs from study abroad centers
-Accredited programs in language, culture, archaeology, art
history.
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39. Avibrant international study and research center, not a
“ghetto-like” study abroad residence hall
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40. The Facilities
Circumvesuviana Rail station
90 bedrooms
chapel
Mensa/Dining room
lobby
Playing
Fields, parking
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Two theaters

41. The athletic facilities to the rear: the “bad” view.
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42. Close connections to the cultural
properties of the Bay of Naples, with
easy transportation
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43. A repertoire of local
consultants who can
offer events or modules
to be inserted into
accredited courses
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44. A repertoire of local
consultants who can offer
events or modules to be
inserted into accredited
courses
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45. A local, innovative
cultural and research
institution in the center of
an area a large range of
potential curricular
material:
-Modern language (Italian, Latin,
Arabic and Spanish)
-Classical Archaeology, history
and art history
-Medieval archaeology and art
history
-Early Christian
-Environmental studies
-Cultural properties management
-Opera, folk music, commedia
dell’arte
-food history and cuisine
-geology
-art instruction (drawing
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architectural instruction.

46. NITLE Activities with
Telepresence Pedagogy
London/Southwestern Student
Alumni Class Audit Bridge
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NITLE Network Exploration

47. Time zones, seven hour difference, five hour overlap of the working day
8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00
08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00
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48. The Main Classroom, The Distant Classroom
with professor
Camera of professor
and classroom Screen with students and prof.
camera
from main classroom
Lecture screen Screen with
distant
students Lecture
screen
Small distant
group
Large
distant
group
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49. The Main Classroom,
Camera of professor
with professor (c. 25) and classroom
Screen with
camera distant
students
Lecture screen
Lecture
screen
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50. Screen with students and prof. The Distant Classroom
camera from main classroom
Lecture
screen
Small distant
group
Large
distant
group
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51. The requirements for facilities and spaces:
The Main Classroom: The Distant classroom:
Small-college classrooms, c. 25-30; small “cubicles” for 1-6 students?
Other Main
Classrooms
Standard small
college
classrooms for
main class (c.25) Students at Stabia taking several
classes from home campus
Distant groups at
one or multiple
institutions
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52. Home College, USA ITALY
Individual or small groups of Italy: courses projected from
students takings courses from classrooms, archaeological sites,
Italy (e.g. Italian language, fieldtrips
archaeology, art history) at
several colleges
Courses at students home
universities which allow
individual students abroad to
Individual or small groups
continue following their
of students in Italy
sequence of required courses
participating in telepresence
in classes at home Univ.
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53. Digitally [partly] solving the library problem:
Much bibliography in the humanities is rather old and therefore essential
books are often out of print, making it almost impossible for anew study
abroad center to start an effective teaching library. Digital library
services and e-books may make it possible partly to solve this.
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54. Three types of synchronous distance learning which won’t
work:
Antipasto
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55. Three types of synchronous distance learning which won’t
work:
Primo
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56. Three types of synchronous distance learning which won’t
work:
Secondo
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57. The Vesuvian International Institute for Archaeology and Humanities
June 15, 2007 Open for International
Educational Groups
-A former Salesian College
-A residential center for undergraduate and graduate
international programs for students and researchers in
archaeology, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art
and history, History of Opera, Neapolitan folk music,
architecture, etc.…
-Hosting academic credit programs from study abroad
centers
-Accredited programs in language, culture,
archaeology, art history.
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