WICHE ICE enables students, through their home institutions, to seamlessly access high quality online courses and programs offered by other four-year and two-year ICE member institutions. The collaborative model fosters faculty engagement, resource sharing, and innovation.

Collaborative Initiatives

The North American Network of Science Labs Online

The North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) represents an international collaborative partnership between postsecondary institutions in the US and Canada. NANSLO partners will develop online science course content for the critical gatekeeper courses of physics, biology, and chemistry. This 15-month project, which began April 15, 2011, is funded through a grant from the Next Generation Learning Challenges.

NANSLO will result in courseware available for online use by any institution world-wide via Create Commons Licensing. The high-quality courseware will be modular in design allowing for customization and localization. Modules will integrate learner-centered and immersive web-based labs using software, video and robotic manipulation of remote lab equipment.

Two ICE members are participating in the NANSLO project. Both Montana State University-Bozeman and the University of Wyoming are participating as satellite campuses. Each has representatives serving on the NANSLO Advisory Board and all of its discipline panels.

For more information, see NANSLO.

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"Looking for a way to offer online courses that provide your students more choices, stretch your funding, and keep low enrollment programs running? Check out WICHE ICE which provides a proven framework that supports inter-institutional collaboration, pairing providers with institutions that are looking for ways to enhance options."
Sam Gingerich, ICE Chair and System Vice President for Academic Affairs, South Dakota Board of Regents
"While universities and colleges have probably never been able to afford the faculty expertise and course diversity that would best benefit student learning, now during bad economic times it is essential for institutions to share resources in order to enhance learning opportunities and reduce costs. WICHE ICE is a proven organizational and financial structure that allows institutions to share courses and programs effectively, while ensuring that students have enhanced access to learning opportunities without additional administrative burdens."
Maggi Murdock, Associate Provost and Dean, Outreach School, University of Wyoming
ICE supplements the curriculum, allowing students to tap into expertise from around the region. It both broadens and deepens a program’s offerings.

John Dede, Interim Director of the Faculty Technology Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
"There are increasingly compelling reasons for certain programs to be developed and delivered collaboratively, and WICHE ICE provides the logistics for doing so."

Mark Wheeler, Dean, Extended Studies, Boise State University
"I have enjoyed teaching WICHE ICE students through an online course at UAA. They tend to be very engaged throughout the courses."

Becky Porter, Instructor, Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services, University of Alaska Anchorage
(Becky Porter is an instructor for the Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services at the University of Alaska Anchorage. During Spring 2011 and 2012 semesters, she taught a series of three workshops on the topic “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.” Typically 10 students from another institution enroll in each workshop through ICE.)

"While universities and colleges have probably never been able to afford the faculty expertise and course diversity that would best benefit student learning, now during bad economic times it is essential for institutions to share resources in order to enhance learning opportunities and reduce costs. WICHE ICE is a proven organizational and financial structure that allows institutions to share courses and programs effectively, while ensuring that students have enhanced access to learning opportunities without additional administrative burdens."

Maggi Murdock, Associate Provost and Dean, Outreach School, University of Wyoming

Internet Course Exchange (ICE)

Collaborative Initiatives

The North American Network of Science Labs Online

Expand your online academic offerings....

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Check out our special promotions for FY 2013!