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Teaching Collaborative Online International Courses

Online Symposium: 12.1.21

Welcome to Israel!

Learning & Leading

Internationalization at Home

Assistance & Management tool

WILLIAM

William-eramsus.com

Int’l Experience of Home Students

1. Collaborative on-line International Learning

2. International Curriculum in English

3. Promotion of International campus

Social Integration

4. Develop social Integration strategies and campaigns

5. Integrated Academic settings

6. Joint extra-curricular activities

Supportive Environment for Int’l

Students

7. Integrated IROs fostering a supportive environment

8. Clear Protocols, regulations for incoming students

9. Staff and faculty training

Collaborative on line international learning

Survey question from registration form:

Top 3 challenges that you encountered/anticipate:

Symposium Schedule

• 9:00-9:10 Introduction to WILLIAM

• 9:10-9:50 Case Studies: Challenges and Best Practices

• 9:50-10:00 Q&A

• 10:00-11:00 Peer to Peer Learning: Breakout rooms

• 11:00-11:15 Evaluating Collaborative on line international Learning

• 11:15-11:30 Summary and next steps

Case Studies: Challenges and Best Practices

• Dr. Elena Mizrachi - English preparatory courses / EPIC (English for Purposes of International Communication)

• Dr. Ido Baum - International Financial Markets

• Dr. Lina Nikou & Dr. Kim Wünschmann - Re/Constructions of the Past in Jerusalem and Munich

About me - Davida Pollak

constant learner , agil and smiling

davida@gordon.ac.il

+9725862651

Group Activity - shared presentation includes:

Slides 3-7 presents summary results of registration form. you are welcome to comment

Slides 8 - Instructions for the first round in breakout rooms 20 min.

Slides 9-17 - Group’s 3 main challenges -

Slide 18 Instructions for Second round in breakout rooms - 15 min

Slides 19 - Group’s chosen challenge and brainstorming of ways to deal with it

Group ActivityYou will be assign to breakout rooms of 8 participants

We will have 2 rounds: AT first You will have 20 min In the rooms

Take your time to get to know each other while discussing the challenges that occupies you at the moment add a slide for your group and summarize your dissociation .

Choose a group member to share it in the plannary

Breakout room no. 2CHALLENGES DISCUSSED:

TIME ZONES - PREVENTED CO-TEACHING

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

ENGLISH LEVEL OF STUDENTS

REGISTRATION ISSUES- HOW TO ENGAGE LECTURERS AND STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE?

ONCE OR TWICE SYNCHRONOUS / INTERVIEWS TO BE ACCEPTED

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES (IN A NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Breakout room no. 3How do deal with different semester settings? credit points, length of the semester even within one country, grading standards (percentage; forms of assignment)

How to have one joint learning platform? Using Moodle or creating own system?

Registration, data protection, privacy issues, sensitive data

Solution on how to find partners: build on pre-existing corporations and contacts; contact International Office

How to create content: what should we pick (topic-orientated, skill-orientated)? How to find a partner? How to divide teaching themes? Where is common interest? Does curriculum allow for flexibility in choosing topics? Committee approval needed?

Breakout room no. 4Challenges:

● Language gaps between our students and also within the classroom (Level of English competencies).

● How much do we balance between the international experience and the academic responsibility of covering the subject matter.

● Looking for International Partner● Logistics--synchronizing timing of classes and finding the right course.● How to create a social interaction and connect the students● How do you internationalize a local course (e.g. History of Israeli Education).

Breakout room no. 5- Scheduling issues across more than two countries

- asynchronous classes (pre-recorded, especially if a holiday…)- shorter course to fit in all schedules- openness/flexibility that course won’t fit into academic calendar

- how to ensure same level of credit recognition if shorter/virtual course…- Time zone - can define the partnership or timing of the course (especially synchronous)- setting up expectations -

Breakout room no. 7● difficulties with opening up the cameras (differing policies of the institutions,

different cultures)● what to do about bad internet connections of the students● different data protection rules● English language

Breakout room no. 8Jessica Cauchard - BGU - Academic and Bureaucratic difficulties

Efrat Ben Zeev - Ruppin - Academic challenges in a specific field

Deborah Sharabi -HIT - choosing the right colleagues, major challenge involving the staff to reach out to colleagues from other institutions abroad

Samara Colman - College of Management - challenges in the institution level, cultures international understanding, lack of language

Sarah Meltzer - JAMD - we already conduct 5 courses with different partners starting second semester

Brainstorming solutions

This time you will go back in the same room and will have 15 min.

Choose one of the challenges and brainstorm option for dealing with it

Add a new slide in this presentation.

In the title write the challenge that you are addressing.

You can summarize your discussion on the slide with text, images or any other tools or example Jamboard or google draw

Remember to nominate a group member to present your work in the plenary.

Breakout room no. 2HOW TO FIND PARTNERS FOR A VIRTUAL EXCHANGE?

● ERASMUS+ PARTNERSHIPS

On An Institutional Level - But Most Importantly On A Personal Level (Between Research Collaborations)

→ Reaching Out To International Centers / Departments /

Mutually Beneficial Programs (On An Institutional Level) - Same Topics In Different Settings Or Different Topics But With A Common Ground - To Bring Each Institution’s Own Specialty

● “Speed Dating” - Partnering Fairs → Mostly- To Develop Connections To Find Professors Interested● Support From The Institution:

○ Administrative Support, Technological, Pedagogical○ National, Professional Recognition - Promotions

Breakout room no. 4Challenge: How to Internationalize a Local Course--such as the History of Education in Israel --- Brainstorming Possible solutions:

● Taking a Comparative Point of View---e.g. Gender Equality in Education--● Teaching certain relevant units together---and others separately.● “Framing of the course”-- why are we learning---what we can learn from the

specific---● Collaboration with the other teacher--to find relevant units for collaboration.● Internationalization of the curriculum---moves local courses into a more

international framework● Exploring a different world--to gain perspective of our own local experience.● Balancing the local, “other” and universal.

Breakout room no. 5- Scheduling issues across more than two countries

- asynchronous classes (pre-recorded, especially if a holiday…)- shorter course to fit in all schedules- openness/flexibility that course won’t fit into academic calendar

- how to ensure same level of credit recognition if shorter/virtual course…- Time zone - can define the partnership or timing of the course (especially synchronous)- setting up expectations

Breakout room no. 7How to make students open their cameras?

● small break out session

What to do about bad internet connections?

● giving extra devices out to students to strengthening the internet connection● learning stations on campus● one on one discussions on the phone (or on a chat) to complete certain tasks● Reading texts together in Perusall

Breakout room no. 8Challenge - the connection between the lecturers and the administrative staff that are making things difficult sometimes. The international office has a crucial role in this chain in showing the open mind and thinking out of the box.

Putting the institution in the international scene sometimes can be a slow process due to “ inner powers”, people do not want always to progress or to cooperate, thing that some of the staff need to be careful not to jeopardize their position.

The conservatism of the system is slowing down the process of progressing.

Language barriers.

Summing- up in a word cloudClick the link in the chat or scan this Qr code to participate

https://www.menti.com/t5cqtre95h

Results

Some resources

• WILLIAM Website & Email• https://william-erasmus.com/

• William@colman.ac.il

• Collaborative on line international learning toolkit• https://william-erasmus.com/category/virtual-classroom-development-tool/

• WILLIAM Facebook page – discussion group on collaborative on line learning • https://www.facebook.com/groups/809158486613212

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