What is WISE?

• Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) is a unique and groundbreaking opportunity.
• Leading schools in the information field have gone outside the classroom to extend their reach to broaden the educational opportunities for students. The WISE consortium uses advanced technology as a means to enrich one’s education and foster relationships among students, faculty and universities.

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  The vision of this initiative is to provide a collaborative, cost-effective distance education model that will increase quality, access, and diversity of online education opportunities in Library and Information Science.

Why be a WISE student?

• Students have the opportunity to access distance education courses through WISE member schools that have met quality bar in on-line education. WISE students have access to ten times the amount of special topics and electives as compared to non-WISE schools.
• For example, a student interested in digital libraries may access expertise from a wider base of faculty and research than may be normally available within their home school. A professional who is working on their degree will have greater flexibility in scheduling and have a multitude of options when considering specialized topics.
• The WISE student will have the ability to select from a wide array of online courses, regardless of their location, and take courses with faculty who are highly regarded in their area of expertise.

What does is mean to be a WISE school?

• WISE member schools have met a bar of providing high quality education in information science and are committed to furthering distance education excellence through collaboration.

WISE Participating Schools

• Indiana University-Indianapolis
• Rutgers University
• Simmons College
• Syracuse University
• University of British Columbia
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Maryland
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Western Ontario
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Victoria University of Wellington

Taking WISE Courses at the college of information studies:

• Please remember than only 3-5 spaces in total are available in each course for WISE students in ALL the participating institutions. There is no guarantee that there will be space for you in any of these courses.
• WISE registration may take place at a time different than registration at the College of Information Studies. Pay close attention to WISE announcements and act quickly to check the website, secure approval from your advisor and express your interest to the WISE contact. If WISE course assignment takes places after College registration, you may want to register for a second choice course at the College in the event you do not get a seat in a WISE course.
• Student must have completed all core requirements before taking a WISE course.
• Students approved for one of the available courses will be registered in LBSC 708Z.
• WISE courses are counted among the total of 12 credit hours that can be earned through other alternatives, including transfer credits, other University of Maryland courses, and Consortium Courses. Those are alternatives are detailed in Appendix 1 of the iSchool Student Handbooks.
• Student must agree to the course parameters of the host institution including course management tools, grading, and dates of the term which may differ from UMD dates.
• Student must have access to technology necessary for completion of the course.
• Student must have the technical knowledge to complete course successfully.

To review the courses that are available to Information Studies students, go to the WISE website, and enter the following login: “md-student”. The password is “test.” Be sure to select the appropriate semester from the drop box.