Share Paper: Digital Age Professional Development for College Faculty from the Ends of the Earth!

  1. Michael Searson, Kean University, United States
  2. Leila Sadeghi, Kean University, United States
  3. Robert Cirasa, Wenzhou-Kean University, China
  4. Tiffany Tang, Wenzhou-Kean University, China

Abstract: A team of university faculty is working across two campuses to provide professional development for international colleagues teaching at a newly established US campus on Chinese soil. An innovative Sino-American collaboration, which includes the building of a state of the art US-based facility on Chinese soil, now features a commitment to prepare a largely Western based faculty to engage with their digital age Chinese students, using cutting edge learning technologies and pedagogies. Learn about the challenges and opportunities that this small professional development team faces as it engages in this innovative initiative.