Submitted by Ernesto M. Reza (not verified) on September 27, 2007 - 05:20.
This short video delivers a very effective and succinct point about the enhanced level of understanding and meaningfulness that students can gain from active engagement and interaction with experts and peers in practically any other location on the planet. To illustrate this point, the video depicts how students can discuss issues in real time with a surgeon at an operating table in a hospital. Other globalized learning opportunities are summarized and reinforce the value of globalized learning experiences.
Potentially, the planet can become an integral part of any classroom setting through virtual networks that can link persons in other places with students in our classrooms using a relatively simple configuratiobn of PC's and communication devices. One issue to consider in initiatives to create globalized learning contexts is that faculty who have a genuine interest in extending a "global" learning experience to their students may do so through individual initiatives but efficacy in such efforts will be more likely when administrative executives in academic settings are actively engaged in facilitating technical as well as other tangible and intengible forms of interpersonal, social, economic and political support to such initiatives or projects.
Without the support and active participation of top administrative staff, faculty confront a daunting set of challenges that may impede their efforts to provide students with a viable and competitive learning experience which integrates the "globalized" contextual framework presently emerging in contemporary human culture. Such support is evident in the magnate program featured in the video.
Global Dimensions of the Learning Process
Submitted by Ernesto M. Reza (not verified) on September 27, 2007 - 05:20.
This short video delivers a very effective and succinct point about the enhanced level of understanding and meaningfulness that students can gain from active engagement and interaction with experts and peers in practically any other location on the planet. To illustrate this point, the video depicts how students can discuss issues in real time with a surgeon at an operating table in a hospital. Other globalized learning opportunities are summarized and reinforce the value of globalized learning experiences.
Potentially, the planet can become an integral part of any classroom setting through virtual networks that can link persons in other places with students in our classrooms using a relatively simple configuratiobn of PC's and communication devices. One issue to consider in initiatives to create globalized learning contexts is that faculty who have a genuine interest in extending a "global" learning experience to their students may do so through individual initiatives but efficacy in such efforts will be more likely when administrative executives in academic settings are actively engaged in facilitating technical as well as other tangible and intengible forms of interpersonal, social, economic and political support to such initiatives or projects.
Without the support and active participation of top administrative staff, faculty confront a daunting set of challenges that may impede their efforts to provide students with a viable and competitive learning experience which integrates the "globalized" contextual framework presently emerging in contemporary human culture. Such support is evident in the magnate program featured in the video.