MATRIX has considerable experience organizing intensive professional development seminars for faculty and other professionals both nationally and internationally. Although coordination of travel, lodging, meals, activities, materials, and curriculum can be demanding, especially with international visitors, all event coordination has been done by MATRIX staff.  Off-campus workshops have included two one-week “Murdock Technology Initiative Humanities Development Workshops” for faculty from the Independent Colleges of Washington, Seattle, (2001, 2002); workshops on the interdisciplinary Science of Learning Centers program (funded by NSF) in Illinois and Florida (2006, 2007), a ten-day workshop on “Humanities Instruction in an Online Environment: Bringing Your Courses to the Web” for the College of Humanities faculty at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal (2005), a three-day workshop on “Archival Practices in Developing Digital Holdings” at University of Ghana at Legon (2005); and two two-week workshops on “The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing: Promoting Civil Society and Democratic Networking in West Africa” conducted at the Library of the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal and at the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana (2003).

MATRIX also has considerable experience developing extended workshops at MSU. These local events have included: a workshop of the Science of Learning Centers program (2007); three two-week academies for high school teachers for each of three Teaching American History (TAH) U.S. Dept. of Education programs (2004-2007); a three-week workshop for cultural heritage professionals from South Africa and U.S. historically black colleges and universities (2000), and two three-week workshops for West Africa women about “The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing” at MSU (2000, 2001).