New faculty are invited to join Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) for a session focusing
on two approaches to advance students’ intercultural competence without travel: Penn State’s EDGE (Experiential Digital Global Engagement) is a project-based international virtual exchange. Simply EDGE projects are embedded into existing courses where students team remotely to solve a problem using innovative instructional technology (Flip, VoiceThread, Jamboard, Padlet, etc.). This session will help you to understand what EDGE is and how to begin the process of creating an EDGE collaborative project. You will hear the benefits of EDGE for both faculty and students, learn the process for connecting with an international partner, and observe several sample student EDGE projects for inspiration to create and embed an EDGE collaborative project into one of your courses.
Multimedia focusing on global experiences can be used stand-alone or with EDGE. Methods include utilizing livestreaming experiences providing first-hand global context, existing 360 videos showing spatial perspective of other cultures, and Google Arts & Culture: Geography Expeditions and Google Voyager showing 360 imagery of real places with an added layer of educational context which affords holistic guided tour. Get first-hand experiences of all three approaches, a brief explanation of how to get started, and next steps to implement within your own course(s).
Connection / location information will be sent to registrants the week prior to the event. Please indicate your interest in the registration form below.
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