A World of Opportunity:
Winston-Salem State University
Using Technology to Leverage International Partnerships
All universities develop international partnerships. Yet
the majority of those relationship go under-utilized in large part
due to a lack of financial resources and interest necessary to
travel to far off lands. Through the use of technology those
partnerships can be leveraged to provide more opportunities for
both students and faculty to engage internationally and develop
the skills and attitudes necessary to thrive in a global,
multicultural society. Since 2004, East Carolina University has
been engaged in technology based international education. Since
that time, we have gone from offering one international course
with one partner to working with over 50 partner institutions in
over 30 countries to offer approximately 20 fully collaborative
classes per semester as well as modules in a number of other
classes. Additionally, we work with our partners to offer
activities for our students and faculty to engage beyond the
classroom. This brief presentation will identify some of the major
activities we are engaged with and identify key challenges and
benefits associated with technology based international
education.
Global Engagement
through
Technology:
A Faculty Workshop
Friday, October 2, 2015
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Acknowledgments:
Office of the Provost
Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Office of International Programs
Thompson Center
Room 207 A
Invited Guest Speaker Biographies
Dr. Jami Leibowitz is the Interim Director of Global Academic Initiatives
(GAI) and Director of Global Understanding (GU) at East Carolina
University (ECU). The mission of GAI/GU is to use technology based
innovative learning strategies to maximize ECU student access to
meaningful, real-time international experiences. Dr. Leibowitz received
her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut in 2003.
She served on faculty in the Department of Anthropology at East Carolina
University from 2002 until 2013 when she left the department to take on a
full time administrative position as Director of Global Understanding. She
received ECU’s Max Ray Joyner Award for Excellence in Distance
Education Teaching and is also a Fulbright alumnus who spent a year
living and conducting research on reproductive health in Romania.
Dr. M. Asadudddin is currently professor of English, Dean, Faculty of
Humanities and Languages, Hony Director of Academics, and Director,
Jamia Centenary History Project at Jamia Millia Islamia University in
New Delhi, India. He has lectured/ led workshops at the universities of
Delhi, Kolkata, Dhaka, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, East Anglia, Chicago,
Rutgers, New York, St. Louis, North Carolina and Wisconsin. He is the
Vice Chair, Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and
Language Studies (IACLALS). He is a regular speaker at literary festivals
on translated literature and Translation Studies, and has received the
following prizes for his translation: Katha Award, Dr A.K. Ramanujan
Award, Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) Award and
Crossword Book Award.
Dr. Robert N. Anderson has 40 years of post-baccalaureate experience in
foreign language education, most of that in Portuguese instruction, and he
has developed and taught a wide range of disciplinary courses on the
Portuguese-speaking world. At WSSU, he established an undergraduate
minor in Portuguese and was campus project director for two US-Brazil
Higher Education Consortia Programs over the course of 10 years, which
compared the African Diaspora in Brazil and the United States. Dr.
Anderson holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Romance Languages,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNCCH). He also earned a
M.A. from the Department of Romance Languages, with a certificate in
Latin American Studies from the Institute of Latin American Studies,
UNCCH; a M.A. from the Foreign Language Education Center, School of
Education, University of Texas at Austin; and a B.A., from the Curriculum
in Linguistics, UNCCH.
Event Schedule
9:00 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:15 - 9:45 am
Global Academic Initiative at East Carolina
University
Dr. Jami Leibowitz, Interim Director, Global
Academic Initiatives, Director, Global Understanding, and
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,
East Carolina University
9:45 - 10:30 am
Shared Cultural Learning through “World
Literature and Culture”
Dr. M. Asaduddin, Professor of English, Dean of
Humanities and Languages, Honorary Director Academics
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Rose Sackeyfio, Associate Professor of English,
WSSU
10:30 am
Break
10:45 - 11:15 am
Global Learning using UNC Language Assembly
Dr. Leonard Muaka, Associate Professor of
English and Swahili
Dr. Robert Anderson, Lecturer in Portuguese and
Coordinator, Languages Across the Curriculum, UNCCH
11:15 - 11:30 am
Technology Resources at WSSU for
Global Learning
Mr. Roger Kirkman, Technology Support
Analyst, Multimedia Technology Services, WSSU
11:30 - 12:00
Wrap-up and Open Discussion