The iPodia Alliance is an independent global consortium among leading universities to promote the iPodia pedagogy and establish a “classrooms-without-borders” paradigm for 21st-century higher education. The iPodia Alliance establishes a global learning hub around the world, creating joint classrooms and shared educational resources. iPodia students learn with, and from, each other across disciplinary, physical, institutional, and cultural boundaries. iPodia learning outcomes include contextual understanding with global perspectives and mutual understanding of each other. As MOOCs (massively open online courses) move classroom lectures from campuses to the Cloud, iPodia moves student interactions from the Cloud to classrooms on campus.
The iPodia Alliance membership currently includes:
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Pilani, in Hyderabad, India
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University – Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea
- National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico
- National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan
- Ndejje University in Kampala, Uganda
- Peking University in Beijing, China
- Qatar University in Doha, the State of Qatar
- RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany
- Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China
- Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel
- The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- The University of Patras in Patras, Greece
- Tsinghua University in Beijing, China
- University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
- University of Southern California – Los Angeles, California, USA
The Viterbi iPodia Program Office at USC serves as the Alliance Administrator to provide required operational support to all Alliance members free of charge. The Alliance is always looking to expand its membership to include more institutions from major world cultures. Since our goal is to promote intercultural interactions through peer learning globally, the Alliance develops its membership based on criteria that are different from those of traditional university ranking schemes.
- We are interested in working with leading universities in different geographical regions that represent complementary social and global cultures. This allows us to maximize the diversity of student backgrounds in iPodia courses to support our goal of “learning from differences.”
- Participating universities must have established undergraduate and/or graduate programs whose academic quality is compatible with that of existing Alliance members. This enables us to offer joint courses that can be formally accepted by member universities for academic credits.
Please contact us at ipodia@usc.edu if your school is interested in joining the alliance.