Designing globally networked learning environments : : visionary partnerships, policies, and pedagogies / / edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Melanie Wilson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Starke-Meyerring, Doreen,; Wilson, Melanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures ; 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Faculty, administrators, and others in higher education face growing pressures to position their institutions, programs, and courses in “global markets” and to prepare students for global work and citizenship. These pressures raise urgent questions: What might higher education look like in a globally networked world? Do traditional industrial models of learning suffice, or what new visions for learning are emerging? What does it take to implement and maintain these visions? To address these questions, Designing Globally Networked Learning Environments brings together 25 educators from four continents, who share their richly diverse visions for teaching and learning in a globally networked world. What unites these visions is that they break with traditional models of repackaging traditional institutionally bounded courses for online delivery in global markets. Instead, these educators build robust partnerships to design globally networked learning environments that connect students with peers, instructors, and communities across traditional institutional, national, and other boundaries to facilitate the kind of cross-boundary knowledge making that students as professionals and citizens will need to participate in the shaping of an emerging global order and to address the most pressing global problems we face. The book offers these visions as opportunities for faculty, program directors, administrators, international program experts, instructional designers, faculty development experts, and others in higher education to work together to deliberate, develop, and shape inspiring visions for globally networked learning and to become active participants in the globalization of higher education.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Melanie Wilson -- Learning Environments for a Globally Networked World / Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Melanie Wilson -- Enabling and Sustaining Globally Networked Learning Environments / Doreen Starke-Meyerring , Ann Hill Duin , Talene Palvetzian and Melanie Wilson -- The Global Classroom Project / TyAnna Herrington -- Growing Grassroots Partnerships / Bruce Maylath , Sonia Vandepitte and Birthe Mousten -- Steps and Missteps in Negotiating a Joint Degree Program with a Chinese University / Kenneth T. Rainey , Herb J. Smith and Carol M. Barnum -- Realizing the University Mission in Partnership with Nicaragua / Robbin D. Crabtree , David Alan Sapp , José Alfonso Malespín and Gonzalo Norori -- Visionary Pedagogies in Globally Networked Learning Environments / Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Melanie Wilson -- International Collaboration and Cross-Cultural Communication / Justin C. Kennon -- Intercultural Collaboration in the Trans-Atlantic Project / Birthe Mousten , Sonia Vandepitte and Bruce Maylath -- Closing the Distance Education / Alec Kirby , Brian Fitch and Louisa Greathouse Amador -- Intercultural Business Communication in Action / Bertha Du-Babcock and Iris Varner -- When the Global is Local / James Dubinsky -- Beyond Standard English / James Melton -- Negotiating the Design of Globally Networked Learning Environments / Matthew McCool -- Globally Networked Learning Environments / Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Melanie Wilson -- Index / Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Melanie Wilson.