The Global Classroom

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International learning in Higher Education for Sustainability

THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM

THE GLOAL CLASSROOM – EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The citizen of the 21st century has to be able to engage sustainability challenges in their local and global contexts. The Global Classroom provides instructors, administrators, and educators in higher education for sustainability with new tools and formats that: design interdisciplinary curricula, develop international programs, and craft learning environments that allow for global collaborations as well as for action in local contexts.

The research projectThe Global Classroom is an international research partnership between Arizona State University (USA) and Leuphana University (Germany). Over three years of application and evaluation the output of this project is a model curriculum that is adaptable in different contexts.

The study programIn the Global Classroom program, students learn how to conduct interdisciplinary research projects, make use of new media and digital tools for international and intercultural collaboration, and engage in local contexts from a global perspective.

OUR OFFER: RESOURCES AND CONSULTANCY

We offer a model curriculum that can be applied to different types of programs, different topics in sustainability, any study program that wishes to add a sustainability perspective (from international development to public health). The curriculum can also be applied on different scales, from a single class to an entire program.

Products and Support — Resource book: a practice-oriented guide for designing and implementing a Global Classroom

program.— Online repository: class activities and assignments for a Global Classroom — Academic publications on: the curriculum concept, the Experience Based Learning Framework,

collaborative competencies for sustainability professionals, research in international educational settings, and on institutional change

Training and ConsultancyWe offer training and consultancy that supports teachers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, and administrators in creating this type of educational experience. Practical approaches and tools, as well as contextualized solutions are also well within our competencies.

PROFILE – IN BRIEF

— Duration from 2012 to 2016— 700.000 EUR— 70 students in 2 cohorts from e.g. sustainability and

environmental sciences, business studies, global health— 11 lectures— 3 researchers and coordinators— funded by Stiftung Mercator

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE MASTER PROGRAM

— Dual Degree between Arizona State University and Leuphana University

— established since fall semester 2015— accredited— international students welcome

Find further information online » www.www.leuphana.de/master/global-sustainability-science

COLLEGE

» www.leuphana.de

International learning in Higher Education for Sustainability

THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM

THE GLOAL CLASSROOM – EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The citizen of the 21st century has to be able to engage sustainability challenges in their local and global contexts. The Global Classroom provides instructors, administrators, and educators in higher education for sustainability with new tools and formats that: design interdisciplinary curricula, develop international programs, and craft learning environments that allow for global collaborations as well as for action in local contexts.

The research projectThe Global Classroom is an international research partnership between Arizona State University (USA) and Leuphana University (Germany). Over three years of application and evaluation the output of this project is a model curriculum that is adaptable in different contexts.

The study programIn the Global Classroom program, students learn how to conduct interdisciplinary research projects, make use of new media and digital tools for international and intercultural collaboration, and engage in local contexts from a global perspective.

OUR OFFER: RESOURCES AND CONSULTANCY

We offer a model curriculum that can be applied to different types of programs, different topics in sustainability, any study program that wishes to add a sustainability perspective (from international development to public health). The curriculum can also be applied on different scales, from a single class to an entire program.

Products and Support — Resource book: a practice-oriented guide for designing and implementing a Global Classroom

program.— Online repository: class activities and assignments for a Global Classroom — Academic publications on: the curriculum concept, the Experience Based Learning Framework,

collaborative competencies for sustainability professionals, research in international educational settings, and on institutional change

Training and ConsultancyWe offer training and consultancy that supports teachers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, and administrators in creating this type of educational experience. Practical approaches and tools, as well as contextualized solutions are also well within our competencies.

PROFILE – IN BRIEF

— Duration from 2012 to 2016— 700.000 EUR— 70 students in 2 cohorts from e.g. sustainability and

environmental sciences, business studies, global health— 11 lectures— 3 researchers and coordinators— funded by Stiftung Mercator

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE MASTER PROGRAM

— Dual Degree between Arizona State University and Leuphana University

— established since fall semester 2015— accredited— international students welcome

Find further information online » www.www.leuphana.de/master/global-sustainability-science

COLLEGE

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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Global Classroom Scharnhorststr. 121335 LüneburgFon [email protected]

ENGAGING THE WORLD

International teams of students conducting fi eldwork research with members of a local community in the greater Phoenix area.

THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM CURRICULUM

In order to enable students to address global sustainability challenges in their manifestations in different local contexts, the Global Classroom curriculum prompts students’ engagement in three dimensions: Knowing, Acting, and Being.

— Knowing: Which kinds of knowledge, and which ways of engaging knowledge, do students need in order to creatively address and solve sustainability challenges?

— Acting: Which skills and competencies do students need to develop in order to address and solve sustainability challenges?

— Being: What kind of mind-set and sense of being(-in-the-world) do students need to cultivate in order to address and solve sustainability challenges?

Curriculum DesignFive different areas of learning are necessary for a reformed curriculum so that students can build the necessary competencies to become change-agents:

— Engaging knowledge(s): the subject of the class— Engaging the world: doing solution-oriented research— Engaging with others: learning successful collaboration— Engaging work-environments: building professional skills— Engaging the self: refl ectivity, personal -growth and values

Each of these areas of learning contain the Knowing, Acting, and Being domains: they are all ‘subjects’ of knowledge, require competencies and skills, and foster refl ection and practice of particular ways of being in the world.

The Teaching-Learning Environment with local and global perspectiveThe teaching-learning environment realizes the components of the model curriculum systematically and operates as the space in which instructors and students engage the learning areas.

The Global Classroom environment is therefore student-centered, collaborative, and interdisciplinary. Specifi c formats actively utilize the local setting and the global exchange through virtual, online-based, and digital applications. We developed a comprehensive set of (i) tools and equipment, (ii) spaces and facilities for learning, as well as (iii) skills needed for students and instructors to navigate this variable environment.

DIGITALLY FACILITATED LEARNING

Students present and compare results of international group work in a plenary format supported with video-conferencing software.

Consultancy Dr. Guido Caniglia [email protected] John [email protected] Bellina [email protected]

DIMENSION: KNOWING

Students experiencing their local environment to understand sustainability challenges of the greater Phoenix area.