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The Forum is pleased to offer two full-day workshops and four half-day workshops in Charlotte. Conference participants may register for the pre-conference workshops when registering for the conference on-line. (Registration opens Thursday, October 15, 2009.) Please note that all workshops have limited capacities, so please register early!
FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS (8:30AM - 12PM; 1 - 4:30PM)
Crossing Borders, Creating Culture: Digital Storytelling & Study Abroad
- Thomas D’Agostino, Director of Center for Global Education, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College Partnership for Global Education (PAGE)
- Doug Reilly, Coordinator of the Center for Global Education, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College Partnership for Global Education
- Bryan Alexander, Director of Research, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)
The digital revolution has put powerful storytelling tools into the hands of study abroad educators and students. Digital storytelling, in which images, words and music are combined into short films that are easy to share with a wide audience, has the potential to enhance the study abroad experience, before, during and after the term abroad. Digital storytelling projects can facilitate focused reflection and concise articulation of cross-cultural experiences and their impact on personal or intellectual development. Participants in this workshop will learn about digital storytelling first-hand, by making their own digital story. Along the way, the group will discuss the myriad ways digital storytelling can augment the study abroad educational project. The process will conclude with a conference session in which the workshop group will show their own films, discuss the concept of digital storytelling, and facilitate a conversation about its potential to enhance study abroad with a wider Forum audience. (Registration is closed for this workshop)
The Blueprint for Intercultural Learning: The What, the How, and the Why
- Lilli Engle, President and On-Site Director, American University Center of Provence
- Michael Vande Berg, Vice President of Academic Affairs, CIEE
- Anthony Ogden, Pennsylvania State University
Study abroad professionals, at home and abroad, are increasingly aware that too many students do not learn and develop effectively while abroad, and that they learn best when focused efforts are made to intervene in their learning. This workshop explores the value and challenge of intercultural learning as well as the key dimensions of effective program design and intercultural training. Participants will examine the obstacles and solutions to improved student learning and experience several innovative intercultural activities. The workshop facilitators, each experienced program designers and intercultural trainers, will ask participants to explore the essential dimensions of effective program design and training. Covering techniques and considerations relevant to a number of program types, from short-term, faculty-led to semester-long immersion, the facilitators introduce these key dimensions through brief, interactive presentations, each of which is followed by facilitated experiential learning activities designed to allow participants to develop insights into ways to optimize student learning abroad. (Registration is closed for this workshop)
HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
MORNING (8:30AM - 12PM)
Using the Global Perspective Inventory to Assess the Value of Education Abroad
- Larry Braskamp, Professor Emeritus, Loyola University Chicago
- Dennis Doyle, Professor of Communications, Central College
- Brian Zylstra, Director, Central College Abroad
Participants will learn from a GPI author about its purpose, theoretical bases, and intended uses in program planning. The GPI has been constructed to answer common questions that students ask in their journey through college: How do I know? Who am I? How do I relate to others? In small groups, workshop participants will use the Interpretative Guide and Group Reports of the two administrations (pre-test and post-test) of the GPI administered during the 2009 spring semesters to approximately 150 students at eight study abroad centers associated with Central College Abroad. They will discuss how they can interpret and use the results of the GPI to determine baselines for understanding their students enrolled in education abroad programs, noting progress on global learning and development, altering and monitoring programs on site, and integrating study abroad programs into home campus programs. At the end of the workshop participants will be able to better understand how to use data from the GPI and other sources of evidence to connect desired student learning and development with socio-cultural environmental factors to enhance desired holistic and global student development. (LIMIT 50 PARTICIPANTS)
Developing International Online Course Collaborations that Build Bridges to Study Abroad
- Jon Rubin, Director, The SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning at Purchase College
- Sarah Guth, English as a Second Language teacher, University of Padua, Italy
- Wayne te Brake, Professor of History, Purchase College at SUNY
- Craig Little, Distinguished Service Professor,Sociology/Anthropology, SUNY Cortland
The online modality is increasingly part of our students’ lives and can become an important addition to international education, if approached thoughtfully. With many of those in international education raising issues regarding the present state of cultural immersion for those studying abroad in the age of Facebook, this workshop will attempt to develop a culturally sensitive response to current online life and will thereby help develop a new vision for education abroad in the 21st Century. Four faculty experienced in globally-networked learning will describe how their students work online with peers in other countries through shared syllabi in an experiential learning environment, and how this engagement has internationalized their classes and led to an increased interest in studying abroad. Each presenter will offer a case study of the course that they developed and taught, followed by an overview of the ways that courses can be linked to and encourage study abroad, the ways that the universities involved have (or have not) chosen to build upon this opportunity, how these courses also function to support faculty development in the area of internationalization, and ways that existing international partnerships can serve as the basis for the development of such courses and the plusses and minuses to this approach. Participants will explore the potential for developing international collaborative courses at their institutions. Prior to the workshop, registrants will be asked to identify potential collaborative courses and partner universities and we will develop these possibilities within the workshop interactively. A social networking web site will be built during the workshop through which workshop participants can stay in touch and continue to develop their courses after the conference.(Registration is closed for this workshop)
AFTERNOON (1 - 4:30PM)
The Vision and Value Behind the Dollar Sign: Financial Models for Education Abroad
- Lisa Donatelli, Director of Global Strategies, Georgetown University
- Vanessa Meyers, Senior Business Manager, International Programs, Georgetown University
- Sherry Miller, Director of Financial Offices, Pennsylvania State University
Employing the best financial model is one of the keys to gaining institutional commitment and support for education abroad; without an effective financial model, even the best vision for education abroad cannot be realized. However, rarely do institutions spend enough time discussing and analyzing various financial models for education abroad. This workshop will bring together chief budget officers with education abroad leaders to explore the pros and cons of different institutional financial models, where education abroad fits in those models, and the challenges and opportunities inherent in each approach. Topics will include currency purchasing, summer program budget models, cost-sharing, predicting student numbers, and building staff into the budget. Before the workshop participants will be asked to describe their institutional and office budget models and the greatest challenges they are facing. At the workshop participants will work in small groups on addressing these specific challenges. **Maximum capacity reached - registration is closed for this workshop.
QUIP Peer Review Training
- Annmarie Whalen, Associate Director for Programs, The Forum on Education Abroad
- Brian Whalen, President and CEO, The Forum on Education Abroad
This Forum workshop is offered a few times each year and is a prerequisite for becoming a QUIP peer reviewer. It will focus on the concept of quality improvement for education abroad, the implementation of the Forum’s Standards of Good Practice, and the role and responsibilities of the QUIP Peer Reviewer. The workshop will detail the processes of the different types of QUIP reviews, including how to analyze the Self- Study Report, conduct the Site Visit and write the Peer Review Report. Participants will analyze sample Self-Study and Peer Review Reports in breakout groups, then present their analyses for group discussion. (LIMIT 50 PARTICIPANTS)
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