Transcript Reaching Beyond With Cross-Listing

Reaching Beyond
With Cross-Listing
Tim Westbrook, M.A.
[email protected]
Today’s Goals
• To demonstrate effective uses of crosslisting in a global classroom.
• To provide our basic foundation for
instructional design.
• To discuss the use of groups and selective
release in combined courses.
Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas
Liberal arts
Christian school
4,154 undergraduate students
2,178 graduate students
International Programs
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Florence (HUF)
Athens (HUG)
London (HUE)
Australia (HUA)
Chile (HULA)
Zambia (HIZ)
Bridging the Campuses
• Cross-cultural anthropology
• World religions
• Cross-cultural communication
• Broadening one’s worldview
• Interactive, global classroom
Experiential Learning Model
(John D. Hendrix, Nothing Never Happens: Experiential Learning and the Church [Macon, Ga.: Smyth & Helwys, 2004],
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Blackboard Tools and Cross-Listing
Groups
Assessments
Assignments
Discussions
What Do We Gain?
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Global community of learning
Real-life cross-cultural reflections
A new way of learning
Life-changing experiences