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Methods to Encourage Adult Students as Facilitators/Leaders

Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Julia Ridge, OLLI National Resource Center

Jane Dowrick, OLLI at University of Richmond, asks OLLI:

I am developing a workshop on the topic of adults who have made the transition from passive student to classroom leader. I want to provide a menu of methods used to encourage and support adult students who are not subject matter experts to serve as facilitators, discussion leaders, embark on research and the like.  I invite you to share your best examples of this with me by email at jdowrick@richmond.edu.

Posted in Management, Curriculum | 3 Comments »

Disability Services

Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Julia Ridge, OLLI National Resource Center

Sarah Benton, OLLI at Penn State, asks OLLI:

We have a hearing impaired (since childhood) member who takes 3 courses per semester.  In order to assist her with her disability, we looked in to real time captioning.  The cost for our OLLI would be $1500 per term/$6000 per year, which we cannot afford.
 
We have applied to a grant source for funding to provide disability services for OLLI courses, but the request was denied.  Have other OLLIs encountered this issue?  If so, how was it handled, and are we required under ADA to fulfill this request and any other disability services?

Posted in Management, Community | 1 Comment »