Engaging our students in

International Online Learning Communities!

Hope Windle Instructional Design SUNY UlsterRichard Cattabiani Director of International Programs SUNY Ulster

Rebecca Smolar Globalization 101 SUNY Levin InstituteSUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning

The varieties of Going International at SUNY Ulster

Online OR

Online AND

Travel

TravelFace to FaceAND

Online At Ulster, Face to FaceTravel, teach face to face

Two weeks in Ireland

Two weeks in Greece

Two weeks in Mexico

Two weeks in Amazon

2 week trips

3 credits

Ulster professors & guest VIP professors

• Ireland: Drawing• Brazil: Amazon River Ecology• Mexico: Ancient Astronomy• Mexico: Art History• Greece & Italy: History of Math

International Travel with Online connections

Four week collaboration

Three week Online collaboration

+ 3 day Face toFace

• Three week Marketing Case Study

Universidad Internacional

• Four week Spanish & English Universidad Internacional

• Three week & 3 Day f2fEthnic Literature: Chicano writers Business: Principles of ManagementUniversidad Internacional

• Four week EFL & ESOL English (English for speakers of other languages)

European Humanities University

• Six weeksContemporary World Lit & EFL

European Humanities University

International Online Collaborations

Six week collaboration

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Marc van Roosmalen

Shirin Haider

African Lit Flyer

Augustine Hungwe

• Human Rights and International Law Programme at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

• Author of Good Governance and Democracy in Zimbabwe

• Visiting professor in International Studies at Trinity College, Bard College, Emerson College, George Washington University, Haverford College, and Yale University

Augustine Hungwe

Dr. Hungweparticipating

How can you prepare for this partnership?

Passion to teach and learn about the world outside the USA

• Comfort with teaching online • Develop a relationship with your instructional designer• Familiarity with the languages involved

Strategies to facilitate this partnership

Develop simple outcomesMake timeAgree upon start and end dateAgree upon course administrative managerAgree upon lead instructor (Situational leadership)Agree upon Learning Management System (LMS)

How do you make connections with international partners?

Are there places on the web where one might find interested partners? COIL, SUNY’s Center of Online International Learning.

Jon Rubin, Director http://coilcenter.purchase.edu/

Questions?

Hope WindleInstructional DesignSUNY Ulsterwindleh@sunyulster.edu

Richard CattabianiDirector

International ProgramsSUNY Ulster

cattabir@sunyulster.edu