Recent releases: by release date | by project title
| Millennium Village Simulation | |
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Partner:
Jeffrey Sachs-
The Earth Institute, SIPA The Millennium Village Simulation is a Web-based simulation of economics and survival for one family and their village in a sub-Saharan African village. In a virtual world of extreme poverty, disease, and environmental variability, students are challenged to help a family of two survive and prosper over a fifty-year period.... |
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Open to all Released: March 2008 | |
| Global Classroom | |
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Partner:
Jeffrey Sachs-
Earth Institute The Global Classroom project organizes and delivers lectures and readings for a master’s level, sustainable development course simultaneously taught at a dozen universities around the world during spring 2008. Conceived as a new distributed learning curriculum by a sub-committee of the Commission on Education for International Development Professionals, the course... |
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Released: TBA In development. | |
| Mapping the African American Past | |
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Teachers College, Creative Curriculum Initiatives Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) is a public Web site created to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th-century through the recent past. The Web site is a geographic learning environment, enabling students,... |
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Open to all Released: February 2008 | |
| MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative | |
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Partner:
Anke Ehrhardt-
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies The MAC AIDS Leadership Initiative trains fellows from South Africa in HIV/AIDS prevention at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University. The initiative is a 12-month training program designed to cultivate new leaders in HIV/AIDS prevention who will... |
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Private Released: February 2008 | |
| New York Neighborhoods Wiki | |
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Partner:
Ken Jackson-
Department of History The New York Neighborhoods Wiki is an online compilation of student-produced research on New York neighborhoods for Professor Ken Jackson’s “History of New York” lecture course. Students developed walking tours of neighborhoods based on their original research. The Web site contains Google mapping technologies that allow students to mark their... |
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Private Released: December 2007 | |
| Harlem Heritage Project | |
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Partner:
Manning Marable-
Arts and Sciences The Harlem Heritage Project is an online resource that allows students to gather digital assets pertaining to their individual projects and presentations in Professor Manning Marable's graduate course, Harlem Heritage: A Community History, 1900 to the Present. Students in the course study Harlem's rich history through four lenses: Politics, Social... |
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Columbia only Released: November 2007 | |
| SMART +SA | |
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Partner:
Robert Remien-
Department of Psychiatry The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is supporting CCNMTL and Dr. Robert Remien, a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, with a two-year grant to adapt and pilot test a multimedia version of SMART Couples, an HIV-treatment adherence program that has been shown to be effective in New York City HIV care clinics. The grant will allow the program to extend its reach to South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world. |
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Released: TBA In development. | |
| Connect | |
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Partner:
Susan Witte-
School of Social Work Connect is a couples-level intervention for heterosexual couples at risk for HIV/STIs developed by the Social Intervention Group at the School of Social Work. The intervention has been proven to reduce risky behaviors in committed heterosexual couples, the fastest growing HIV-infected group in the US. Principal Investigator Susan Witte and... |
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Released: TBA In development. | |
