Educational Insights (Asynchronous Session)
Building Cross-Cultural Sustainability Competence through Online Exchange: A Case Study of Egypt and the United States View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Isidore Udoh, Martina Jaskolski
As the threat of climate change looms, there is a growing consensus on the urgent need to build a global framework for sustainable production, marketing, and use of resources. Educational institutions have come under renewed pressure to develop and implement curricula that foster a sense of global stewardship and citizenship in their students. The search for solutions to the evolving and multidimensional global challenges engendered by climate change requires a new generation of professionals that is equipped with the knowledge, skills, and capacity to approach these challenges with creativity, cooperativeness, and cultural sensitivity. Education plays an important role in developing and nurturing competencies in sustainability among students as learners, workers, consumers, and citizens. This study assesses whether and how online education exchange can be utilized to support students to develop local, intercultural, and global competencies for sustainability. We present lessons from a cross-cultural and cross-national online education exchange program that facilitated discussions on environmental health and sustainable development among undergraduate students in Cairo and Chicago. The online exchange helped students to explore challenges to sustainable development within their own cities and countries. Students also engaged in discussions, evaluated and critically assessed the different approaches taken in Egypt and the USA to tackle environmental health and sustainability problems.
Rethinking Remote Learning : Co-teaching in the Online Classroom View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Cristin Lasser
In order to best serve our students in urban, rural, and international contexts, we use a co-teaching model in the Master of Development Practice (MDP) and Master of Arts in Education (MAE) Programs that connects students online to create a online synchronous learning experience. In this study, I talk about systems and structures we have put into place in order to create optimal student engagement. Grounded in the guiding principles of co-planning, co-instruction, co-assessment, and co-communication, I discuss how various co-teaching strategies can be utilized for both content delivery and understanding. For example, utilizing the "one teach, one assist" co-teaching strategy in the Zoom classroom, instructors can work collaboratively to develop students' content understanding while simultaneously addressing more immediate needs (i.e. connectivity, student behaviors, participation, questions and comments) via the "chat" function. Additionally, instructors can use breakout groups to employ the "complementary/supplemental" co-teaching strategy, in which one instructor works with students on the assigned content for that class session, while the other instructor works with students who need information and/or materials extended or remediated. By utilizing various co-teaching strategies in remote learning environments, we have found co-teaching to be an effective and efficient way to connect students across modalities and contexts in order to best meet their learning needs.
Happy or Not?: Roots of Student Satisfaction in Class Sessions View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Matthew Metzgar
Businesses and organizations are turning to fast feedback devices that measure consumer satisfaction. These standalone devices often have four or five different smiley-face buttons that can quickly gauge consumer sentiment. These devices are becoming popular due to the short time commitment needed to provide feedback. This instructor has piloted the use of a smiley-face survey tool that is used at the end of each class session. Initial results suggest the role of the instructor may play a lesser role in student happiness for a given class. External factors, such as outside event or incoming GPA, appear to have a larger effect on class satisfaction. Data from classes and sample email exchanges are presented. This type of fast feedback system has many potential benefits and low startup costs.
A Brief History of International Education in Indonesia: From Berkeley Mafia to the Global Education Industry View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Svetlana Kostrykina
This study examines the evolution and the current state of internationalisation practices in the Indonesian higher education sector from a pragmatic transdisciplinary perspective. The Global Studies transdisciplinary framework and mixed-method approach lends a bold and refreshing outlook on the specifics of internationalisation practices in Indonesia in relation to the global international education industry, the global knowledge economy and the role of Indonesia in Asia-Pacific regionalisation initiatives in higher education. Although now the global international education industry is on hold due to the pandemics, new market opportunities will be crucial for the post-COVID-19 business recovery. Currently, the Indonesian higher education sector gradually opens up for foreign universities, which hold a promise for great opportunities for the export education providers and other industry stakeholders. While the Indonesian growing middle-class and market overviews draw a picture of higher education massification in action, the presence of the global international education industry in the country remains limited. This makes Indonesia the largest untapped market for international higher education in Asia-Pacific. The paper includes a comprehensive overview of historical, political, economic and social underpinnings of internationalisation practices in the Indonesian tertiary sector, the legislative context for the industry and practical insights form the Indonesian tertiary sector practitioners. Special attention is paid to impact of the knowledge economy and the World Bank’s operations on the current state of the international education industry in Indonesia. This analysis is particularly useful for those who seek to build collaborations with the Indonesian institutions of higher education in the future.
