Share Paper: A Model for Collaboration: Using Diverse Technologies for Global Learning

  1. Terry Mullins, Concord Univeristy , United States
  2. Anita Reynolds, Concord University, United States
  3. Greg Neal, Victoria University, United States
Tuesday, October 20 2:45 PM-3:05 PM Lehua II

Abstract: The purpose of this session is to share a model for creating an ongoing global collaboration that involves digital age learning. The presenters will demonstrate a model using 21st. Century technology that requires higher education students to communicate and collaborate across cultural and international boundaries. Using this model for global collaboration, students communicate weekly with teacher candidates from another country, employing various interactive technologies. Those tools include email, wikis, social media, Voice Thread, Google Docs and Skype. Subsequently they respond to electronic discussion board prompts in their online course by writing an analysis of the similarities and differences between the ...