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Active Learning & Pedagogy for Global Learning
CCR Facilitator: Eva Magnusson
Key Questions:
- How do you need to prepare students to work effectively as globally-distributed teams?
- How do you develop effective lesson plans and class activities to engage students in cross-cultural dialogues?
- How to accommodate the language barriers between members of globally-distributed teams?
- How do we create bonding between members of globally-distributed teams?
Technology and Intercultural Exchanges.
CCR Facilitator: Christine Alfano
Key Questions:
- How can we use different ICTs (such as blogging, videoconferencing, wikis, etc.) for cross-cultural exchanges?
- How do we balance synchronous (real time - video conferencing) and asynchronous (time lag - blogging, e-mail) communications?
- How does physical room design and furniture/technology configurations affect the cross-cultural encounter?
- How do questions of access and infrastructure impact the possibilities for intercultural exchanges between academic institutions?
Rhetoric.
CCR Facilitator: Anders Eriksson
Key Questions:
- How do we teach rhetoric in a cross-cultural context?
- What forms of cultural rhetoric do we know?
- How do we encounter different traditions of rhetoric in the classroom?
- Looking to the future, how would we like to develop the theme of cross-cultural rhetoric in our own individual institutional contexts?
Intercultural Communication.
CCR Facilitator: Alyssa O'Brien
Key Questions:
- How might we foster intercultural competencies in students and teachers?
- What theories of intercultural communication inform our research and our pedagogy?
- How can we facilitate the development of global citizens and effective collaboration in the ever-changing site of intercultural exchange?
- Looking forward, what solutions might we offer to the hegemony of English and the dominance of western world views?
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