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IDEAS INCUBATOR WEBINAR #LaunchIDEASabroad Thank you for joining today’s webinar. The session will start promptly at 2pm EST and will be recorded.
USA Study Abroad
Mission:
To advance U.S. foreign policy
goals by increasing and
diversifying U.S. study abroad
through programs for both
individuals and institutions and to
support the next generation of
diverse American leaders to gain
Heidi Manley the knowledge and skills they
Chief, USA Study Abroad need to succeed in a globalizing
U.S. Department of State world.
IDEAS
• Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students
• IDEAS Grant Competition
• Annual grant competition awarding approximately 20 grants of up to
$35,000 each to U.S. higher education institutions
• IDEAS Initiatives
• Free workshops and webinars for the wider U.S. study abroad community
to expand and diversify U.S. student mobility abroad.
Virtually Abroad: Expanding our idea of what study abroad looks like
Presenters Hope Windle Taylor Woodman Christine Anderson Sharon Gusky Community Internationalization Academic Director, Biology Professor Development Lead Specialist Learning Abroad Center Northwestern CT SUNY COIL Center University of Maryland University of Minnesota Community College
Overview
Data Themes
• 93% improved their cross- • Virtual Exchange =
cultural communication International Opportunity for All
• Maintaining Virtual Exchange as
skills an option for students of all
• 89% improved their resource levels
knowledge and/or interest • Measuring the impact of virtual
in global events exchanges
• 85% improved their critical • Best Practices and Advice
thinking skills
Source:
SUNY COIL Hope Windle
What is COIL?
COIL is about
connecting
across
difference.
Professors and
students work
with their peers
in an online
learning
environment to
explore subjects,
themes, issues,
and ideas
COIL extends significant international experiences to
What is COIL? all students and faculty by facilitating online
intercultural exchange. Faculty and students work
with their peers in an online learning environment to
explore important themes, issues, and ideas.
COIL has a definition
Collaborative Online
International Learning
but when you have two
classes coming together
in the midst of a pandemic
and a hurricane for
Cancun and a community
responding to police
brutality in Rochester,
N.Y… the students get
committed to making it
work.
COIL Pedagogy
Define learning outcomes Determine the length of interaction Design comparative and collaborative activities Select methodology and technology Monitor student work and learning Assess and evaluate student outcomes *Develop an effective international team *Discuss issues, course content *Problem solve *Complete a project-based assignment as part of their coursework
What is Virtual Exchange?
• Dialogues and collaboration between people and classrooms sustained over
a period of time online
• Interactive social learning
• Facilitated (by professors or trained facilitators)
• Meaningful intercultural experiences
• Intentional, goal-oriented activities
• Often project-based, can involve service learning and/or community
engagementWhat Virtual Exchange is Not: • Virtual mobility • Digital Penpals • International guest lectures • Distance learning courses • MOOCs • Informal social media interactions • “Study Abroad Lite” • Unplanned, unstructured
SUNY COIL Partners and Global Network
Examples of COIL Collaborations
SUNY Course Global Partner Course COIL Module
University at Buffalo: Ethics of Durban University of Technology, Coverage of Controversies in the
Journalism South Africa: Public Relations & Press
Media
Geneseo: Introduction to Universidad La Salle, Mexico: Cross-cultural Definitions of
Psychology Financial Engineering Personhood and How They May
Influence Consumer Economic
Behavior
Delhi: World History 1850-present The American University in Cairo, Multicultural Contributions to the
Egypt: International and Evolution of the Scientific Method
Comparative Education
Monroe Community College: American University of Technology, Cultural Influences on Management
Entrepreneurial Studies Lebanon: Introduction to Style
Management
Nassau Community College: Durban University of Technology, Constructing a Virtual Nursing
Nursing South Africa: Home
Construction TechnologyInstitutional Benefits
The Value Proposition for All
COIL can provide a global experience to more students
COIL can reach students as early as their first semester
COIL engages students more often
COIL can integrate into multiple subjects
COIL can sustain the global engagement
$ COIL offers a competitive cost per student when scaledCOIL Personalized Internationalizing
Learning
supports the Curriculum
broad
institutional 21st Century
Skills
COIL
High Impact
goals Development Practice
Active
PedagogyConnecting to Your Institutional Learning Outcomes... Global Perspectives Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of various perspectives of people in local and global contexts.
Perspectives
COIL is an
invitation from the
future.
Administrator, Portland State
University
“An experience that causes participants to forget they are virtual”University of Maryland Taylor Woodman
• Virtual - Utilizes digital technologies
to deliver course content
• Project-Based - Course deliverables
● 2014 - Global Classrooms Initiative Grant address real-life global or local
Program needs
● 2017 - Fellows Program • Cross-Cultural - Offered in
● Early 2020 - Mini Grants
● June 2020 - Design Sprint/CARES conjunction with an international
Act/Model Expansion institution
● August 2020 - Study Abroad Special
Sessions
● Today - Reassignment of EA Team;
Financial Model; Ongoing support and
delivery modelsAdvancing Comprehensive
Internationalization
● Advances institutional internationalization goals
● Creates connections between research, teaching and service
● Increasing student exposure to global research, networks and alternatives to dominant U.S.
policy, practice and ideas
● Provides access to global opportunities
● Maintains and strengthens research partnerships/linkages in times
of uncertainty (political, financially, crisis, etc.)Measuring Impact
• Limited Scholarly Research
• Emerging as we speak
• Capturing Data
• Balancing Admin vs. Faculty
• Evaluations
• Partnering with faculty
• Developing program outcomes
• Scaling
• Integration/Sustainability of
GC modelEngaging Study Abroad Advocates
• Reframe from Study Abroad
• Connect to location or new sites in
traditional locations
• Leverage International Networks
• Cultural institutions and embassies
• Communicate needs explicitly
• Understand power dynamics
• Testing & backup plans are essential
• Connect across campus
• IT; Teaching Center, etc.
• Understand your technology/infrastructure
• Articulate institutional commitment
• Invest in trainingAdditional Resources Stevens Initiative - 2020 Annotated Bibliography on Virtual Exchange Research IVEC Virtual Exchange Coalition Journal of Virtual Exchange Global Classrooms Initiative
University of Minnesota: Learning Abroad Center Christine Anderson
Virtual International
Internship Basics
• 16 Different cities
• Multiple industries
• 15-weeks
• 4-credits
• Instructors from LAC Centers
• French & Spanish sections
• Country coordinators
• Orientations
• Cost of tuition, approximately
$2,049Academics ● Course designed to guide experience ● 4 credits ● Global Perspectives LE ● Focus on comparative national response to COVID-19 ● Multicultural groups ● Global industry ● Market useful skills ● Safe space
Cultural Considerations
• Realize your own professional
identity
• Values
• Flexibility and awareness
• Perspective-frame shift
• Professional culture
• Language
• On-site staff will provide culture-
specific informationWhat did you find most valuable about the
experience?
● Cross-cultural communication and learning how ● I also gained valuable skills in working
to push myself to create work I am proud of in a school setting and with students
● Establishing connections with a company and ● The personal connection I made with
professionals abroad as well as obtaining my first my supervisor. This more personal
professional experience and skills. experience made learning and
discussing things like Spanish culture
● Learning about new cultures and the people I got and current event so easy.
to meet.
● The experience of getting to conduct
● I learned a lot about cross-cultural psychology medical research abroad
which was great because it is pretty hard to learn
about it in an academic setting ● The weekly meetings with my
supervisor and the three classes with
● Meeting the other UMN interns Waly, all of which were in French.What did you find most
challenging?
● Time difference, being virtual, staying ● Conducting all verbal and written
ambiguous throughout such a new communication in Spanish
program
● Out of the experience I found it
● The language barrier –– this was one of challenging to work as independently as I
the most rewarding parts in the end, did, however, I gained more confidence in
though my abilities by doing so.
● The most challenging aspects relate to the ● Time management - balancing life and
most valuable aspects. Being able to take work weekly to make sure everything is
the project in your own direction requires done on time but still have some time for
you to have a detailed, fleshed-out plan for other work outside of the internship.
yourself, which can be difficultHow did the host country
impact your internship?
● My host country and its culture/behaviors ● I think that having an internship that as
contributed to my growth and appreciation based in writing and was with a country
that doesn’t speak English was really
interesting and rewarding. It made it really
● I had studied abroad in Spain the previous interesting to be able to show the
semester in Toledo, Spain so I was ecstatic difference between how articles are
to be "back". written in America versus Spain.
● The host country impacted my internship ● I learned about COVID and Italian culture
experience because I was able to work with
an organization and with people that operate ● There were opportunities to learn about a
in French. It was a great learning opportunity different professional culture from
to learn about the differences in Western vs the professional culture of the US
West African work culture.Student Quote Madeline Deninger, a senior studying strategic communication, intern with El Independiente, an online publication in Spain “This internship wasn’t something I ever thought I’d have a chance to do,” Madeline said. “If COVID had never happened and it had been in person, I wouldn’t have gotten the opportunity.” “They were excited that an international audience was still interested in the [Black Lives Matter] movement,” Madeline said. Local news coverage in Spanish publication El Indipendiente
Next Steps
• Open nationally
• Customized
• Virtual International
Research
• Retaking virtual
internship
• Blended with onsite
experience
• Arabic sectionFY18 IDEAS Grantee: Northwestern Connecticut Community College Sharon Gusky
NWCC’s FY18 IDEAS Grant Activities Destination: France and Spain Foreign Policy Goals: Energy & Natural Resources NCCC will develop a study abroad capacity building program that would introduce both students and faculty to the opportunities and benefits of studying abroad and also develop a Study Abroad Coordinator position. This project will also develop Virtual International Experiences (VIEs) for faculty and students which will be course modules that faculty in any discipline can use in their courses. Faculty from Northwestern will be paired with faculty from institutions in France and Spain. Together they will use interactive lessons that students from both countries can participate in both formally and informally to learn about each other’s culture.
Virtual Study Abroad Program
Goals
• Provide an opportunity for students who don’t have an
opportunity to study abroad to interact with students from
another culture
• Increase interest in study abroad programs
• Help students see themselves as a part of a global
community and see issues covered in STEM classes as
global issuesVIE STEM Projects
• Statistics Class with the University of Lorraine- Nancy, France-
Quality Control Data Analysis
• General Biology Class-Tiny Earth- with the University of
Complutense, Madrid, Spain-Searching for New Antibiotics
• Microbiology Class- PARE Project- with the University of
Lorraine- Nancy, France-Mapping Antibiotic Resistant OrganismsBest Practices
• Instructors worked together
• Students were paired up in groups/Provided Peer Feedback
• Answered weekly guided prompts
• Interactions were primarily asynchronous with optional
synchronous interactions
• Participation counted as part of their lab gradeImpact- Student Perspective
“Working with the students from France has been a
great experience because it has pushed me out of my
shell. I am now comfortably talking to people outside of
Provide an opportunity the country that I've never even met in person!”
for students who don’t
have an opportunity to “Itwas really interesting to see how the French students
study abroad to lives differed from ours - like their majors and their
hobbies. I also enjoyed seeing pictures of the French
interact with students students and their school. Normally we wouldn't get to
from another culture connect with other students learning the same things
from across the world, so
I really enjoyed the PARE project!”Impact- Student Perspective
Students checked in on each other more frequently
during the pandemic shut down in March 2020 and
Help students see even met via Zoom a few times.
themselves as a “While communicating with the French students was
part of a global fun, this project also brought to light how important it is
community and see for projects, like this one, to be shared across multiple
issues covered countries. The threat of antibiotic resistance is a global
in STEM classes as problem, so it makes sense that the PARE project is
global issues shared internationally, gaining data from multiple
different locations.”Impact on Study Abroad Interest
• One year prior to this project another CC offered our students
seats in their study abroad trip to France- only three students
attended the information session
• After doing VIEs for a year- we held another study abroad
information session and 40 students attended
• We had three students apply for Gilman Scholarships and one
was awarded one
• We went from one VIE class to four (Statistics, 2 Bio , Business)Questions? Please enter your questions in the chat box.
SUNY COIL coilinfo@suny.edu
hope.windle@suny.edu
UMD Global Classrooms TCWood@umd.edu
UMN Learning Abroad Center ander590@umn.edu
NWCC sgusky@nwcc.commnet.edu
StudyAbroadCapacityBuilding.org
IDEAS@worldlearning.org
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