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Collaborations in Online International Learning Environments – How to Make them Work! For many faculty members, the internationalization of their classes has been a goal that has been hard to achieve. However, since its inception in 2006, COIL has been working with faculty to enhance their courses by embedding online collaborations with international partners into their classrooms. At this event we will present new developments in the field of international online education, and will hold a series of focused workshops and discussions to tackle issues specific to teaching collaborative international courses.
All sessions will be held on the Purchase College campus. The three morning Plenary Sessions will be streamed. Go to http://www.purchase.edu/live on the morning of November 14th for the URL. Please join us!
Tentative Conference Schedule Snapshot
8:30 Coffee, and Continental Breakfast 9:30 Greetings and Welcome by Provost Damian Fernandez & Jon Rubin, COIL Director, Purchase College 10:00 Morning Plenary Sessions 12:00 Lunch 1:15 Afternoon Break-out Sessions 4:15 Where do we go from Here? - A discussion of next steps 5:30 Conference Closing
Registration is limited to 90 persons (please register early). Registration is by Mail and Check Only and you must include a completed registration form with your check! Rates are below.
Click Here to Download Registration Form!
SUNY:
| $50
| Non-SUNY:
| $100 | | Purchase College | $0 (first 15 registrants only - all others pay SUNY rate) | | After October 17 | $25 late fee
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Please send a check made out in the correct amount to "The Research Foundation of SUNY" and mail to:
The COIL Center
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Please indicate name of attendee on the check.
Accomodations:
For those who wish to spend the night of either November 13 or 14 at a nearby hotel, we have made arrangements with the LaQuinta Inn and Suites in Armonk, NY, which is less then six miles from campus, to hold rooms for conference attendees for $99/night! This is a great price for quality hotel accommodations in southern Westchester, so feel free to use our conference as a springboard to a weekend in NYC - less then an hour away! Just call and tell them you are coming to the Purchase College COIL conference.
Click here for: Hotel Web Site.
Plenary Cross-Boundary Knowledge-Making in Globally Networked Learning Environments - Doreen Starke-Meyerring, McGill University Designed to prepare learners for global work and citizenship, Globally Networked Learning Environments provide opportunities for learners to develop new ways of knowledge-making across traditional boundaries. This presentation offers principles, processes, and examples to guide the development of new pedagogies that facilitate these new ways of cross-boundary knowledge-making and is an extension of the ideas presented in Prof.Starke-Meyerring's recently published book: Designing Globally Networked Learning Environments.
Read More... The Multi-Faceted Focus of International Collaborations - Sarah Guth, University of Padua, Italy One of the most common mistakes educators make when embarking on international collaborative exchanges for students is assuming that the exchange will have a sole focus and that that focus will be course content. Although content often defines the context of these exchanges, what is often neglected is the impact of collaboration (or lack thereof) and culture on the value of the exchanges and the effectiveness of students' learning experiences. This presentation will focus on why it is important to integrate learning how to collaborate and how to communicate with people from other cultures when developing international collaborative learning projects.
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Experience the Real in the Virtual - Bryan Carter, University of Central Missouri
(teleporting from Paris)This session explores how collaborative activities within a virtual space lead to rather unexpected consequences between students and faculty. Students who are grouped in virtual environments, based on our experience, not only demonstrate an interesting curiosity about those with whom they are interacting but also have expressed a keen interest in visiting the locations where their counterparts live. We've found the same to be true with faculty who meet and collaborate in virtual space, eventually visiting or collaboratively presenting with one another in real life. Virtual environments can serve as a wonderful springboard for real life interaction.
Break-Outs - all conference registrants will be able to attend two sessions Intro to Distance Learning - Dr. Keith Landa, SUNY Purchase & Hope Windle, SUNY Ulster This session is for participants who have never taught online. It will be an orientation to working with a Learning Management System emphasizing approaches to course design and methods of online interaction and collaboration that are appropriate to an international course. Sample course templates will be presented. Partnering - Dr. Katherine Krebs, SUNY Binghamton & Dr. Richard Cattabiani, SUNY Ulster This session will explore different avenues for developing international faculty-to-faculty and institutional partnerships upon which collaborative courses can be built, emphasizing the role that campus international programs offices can play. We will also offer an overview of how faculty members who have already taught COIL courses found their partners. Learning with Strangers - Dr. Betsy Hansel, AFS International & Dr. Valery Chukhlomin, ESC This session will explore ways in which culturally varied teaching and learning styles reveal themselves in the classroom and how these modalities can contribute to or interfere with collaborative learning. We will view videos demonstrating cultural mis-communication in a traditional classroom and try to understand how the online environment differs. Shaping the Experience - Dr. Craig Little, SUNY Cortland & Dr. Doreen Starke-Meyerring, McGill University This session will explore the different options available to faculty who want to explore collaborative international learning - from the simple guest lecture, to the shared module to a fully online multi-cultural course to a blended course where students also meet face-to-face on their home campus. What's issues does each scenario bring up and how do different disciplines fit into these models? Cross-Cultural 2.0 - Sara Guth, University of Padua & Clark Shah-Nelson, SUNY Delhi When working with multicultural groups, especially when English is not the native language of all participating students, Web 2.0 Tools (Wikis, Ning, Flikr, FlashMeeting) can enhance the communicative experience. We will demonstrate the use of these tools and explore other collaborative techniques that enhance the international online classroom and build upon the LMS. Teaching With One Foot Outside the Frame: Second Life & International Courses - Dr. Jason Pine, Purchase CollegeOnline virtual worlds provide unique opportunities and challenges as learning environments. Distance learners and instructors have immersive virtual classroom experiences and opportunities for real-time collaboration, but unfamiliar glitches and forms of mediation can disrupt "traditional" learning modalities such as lectures, group exercises and discussions and the experience itself becomes the concrete material of highly stimulating object lessons. This session presents examples of Second Life learning practices, glitches and their application in international courses. A Conference on Computing in the Disciplines Sponsored by FACT with funding from SUNY Learning Environments in the Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
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