Crossing Boundaries with Global Online Secondary Education

Title: Crossing Boundaries with Global Online Secondary Education

Your Name and Title: Denise Perrault, Head of Online Learning

School or Organization Name: International Baccalaureate

Co-Presenter Name(s): none

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: The Netherlands

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Curriculum specialists, students, teachers, parents, school administrators, educational technologists

Short Session Description (one line):

This presentation will report on the experience of International Baccalaureate students enrolled in online Diploma Programme courses as active members of global online cohorts.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

As a component of the International Baccalaureate’s access agenda, students now have the opportunity to become members of online cohorts as they participate in Diploma Programme courses hosted online. The online environment allows for students to experience international education and engage globally in a different way providing a unique perspective.

This session shares the lessons learned by the International Baccalaureate and Pamoja Education in meeting the unique challenges of delivering two-year, secondary education courses to global cohorts, across different time zones, school cultures, school calendars, student languages and abilities. The presenter will share feedback from independent researchers, as well as participating students, teachers and school representatives that highlight the features of successful global online learners and successful online learning environments.

Hi Denise

Thank you so much for your session proposal for the 2011 Global Education Conference! We're pleased to let you know that your submission has been accepted! Your proposal is now in the "accepted proposals" list on the website. Here are some important tasks for you.
1. Because we have sessions being presented from all different time zones, as a speaker you actually schedule your own session time at http://globaledcon11.youcanbook.me. This allows you to see the available slots and to pick something that works within your time zone, work schedule, or other constraints. We're quite proud of how this works, as it is one of the benefits of a virtual conference, but if you should fun into any difficulties finding a time that works for We encourage you to do this quickly, as proposals are being reviewed in the order in which they were submitted, so your priority for selecting a session time depends on you scheduling right away. When you do select you time, be sure that the scheduling system has the correct time zone for you!
To schedule your session, you should open http://www.globaleducationconference.com to your presentation proposal (you can do a search on your name to find it, or click on "My Page" in the top menu and then click on the "discussion" link on the left side to find it). Open the session booking link from above in another tab. You will find it easiest to copy the information from one to the other rather than re-type it. Once completed, you will receive an email confirmation of your booking.
2. As a speaker, you need to make sure you are a member of the conference "speakers group" on the network website. Most of our announcements to speakers will be sent to the members of this group, so as not to email all site members. Join the group (or check to make sure you're already a member) at http://globaleducation.ning.com/group/2011-global-education-confere....

3. Speakers are responsible for knowing how to use Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). We will have a cadre of volunteers on hand during the conference to help with any issues, but you need to go through the moderator training for Collaborate if you are not a seasoned user. There are a variety of training resources at the Collaborate website, and we are also holding six live one-hour training sessions (don't worry, attending any one will be be enough--we just wanted you to have several time choices for attending. All the relevant information is at http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/training. Please look at this page soon.
Again, we are so delighted to have you participating in the 2011 Global Education Conference. Thank you!
Best,

Anne Mirtschin Organising Committee, 2011 Global Education Conference

mirtschin@gmail.com

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Anne Mirtschin November 1, 2011 at 4:37am

Hi Denise

Thank you so much for your session proposal for the 2011 Global Education Conference! We're pleased to let you know that your submission has been accepted! Your proposal is now in the "accepted proposals" list on the website. Here are some important tasks for you.
1. Because we have sessions being presented from all different time zones, as a speaker you actually schedule your own session time at http://globaledcon11.youcanbook.me. This allows you to see the available slots and to pick something that works within your time zone, work schedule, or other constraints. We're quite proud of how this works, as it is one of the benefits of a virtual conference, but if you should fun into any difficulties finding a time that works for We encourage you to do this quickly, as proposals are being reviewed in the order in which they were submitted, so your priority for selecting a session time depends on you scheduling right away. When you do select you time, be sure that the scheduling system has the correct time zone for you!
To schedule your session, you should open http://www.globaleducationconference.com to your presentation proposal (you can do a search on your name to find it, or click on "My Page" in the top menu and then click on the "discussion" link on the left side to find it). Open the session booking link from above in another tab. You will find it easiest to copy the information from one to the other rather than re-type it. Once completed, you will receive an email confirmation of your booking.
2. As a speaker, you need to make sure you are a member of the conference "speakers group" on the network website. Most of our announcements to speakers will be sent to the members of this group, so as not to email all site members. Join the group (or check to make sure you're already a member) at http://globaleducation.ning.com/group/2011-global-education-confere....

3. Speakers are responsible for knowing how to use Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). We will have a cadre of volunteers on hand during the conference to help with any issues, but you need to go through the moderator training for Collaborate if you are not a seasoned user. There are a variety of training resources at the Collaborate website, and we are also holding six live one-hour training sessions (don't worry, attending any one will be be enough--we just wanted you to have several time choices for attending. All the relevant information is at http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/training. Please look at this page soon.
Again, we are so delighted to have you participating in the 2011 Global Education Conference. Thank you!
Best,

Anne Mirtschin Organising Committee, 2011 Global Education Conference

mirtschin@gmail.com

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