Bringing "Internationalization at Home" Opportunities to Community Colleges: Design and Assessment of an Online Exchange Activity between U.S. and Japanese Students

Autor/inn/en	Custer, Lindsay; Tuominen, Anne
Titel	Bringing "Internationalization at Home" Opportunities to Community Colleges: Design and Assessment of an Online Exchange Activity between U.S. and Japanese Students
Quelle	In: Teaching Sociology, 45 (2017) 4, S.347-357 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0092-055X
DOI	10.1177/0092055X16679488
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Educational Opportunities; Global Approach; Online Courses; International Educational Exchange; Virtual Classrooms; Sociology; Intercultural Programs; Teaching Methods; Educational Strategies; Influence of Technology; Learning Activities; Student Participation; Interaction; Pretests Posttests; Student Surveys; Student Experience; Competency Based Education; Foreign Countries; Japan; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Globales Denken; Online course; Online-Kurs; Internationaler Austausch; Soziologie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrstrategie; Lernaktivität; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Interaktion; Schülerbefragung; Studienerfahrung; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Ausland
Abstract	Increasing college students' exposure to global contexts and improving their intercultural competency remain challenging educational objectives, especially at the community college level. Fortunately, the recent shift in higher education from study abroad opportunities toward so-called "internationalization at home" initiatives, where students interact with people from cultures outside their own while remaining on their home campuses, offers new options. In this article, we describe a virtual exchange activity that we conducted between our sociology courses at a community college in the United States and two universities in Japan. We show through our assessment of the students' experiences that a well-coordinated, carefully crafted, technology-enhanced internationalization at home activity has the potential to offer important global learning opportunities and intercultural competency development for sociology students who may otherwise lack the means to participate in study abroad. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01