Discussions

Your Name and Title:  

Katja Riikonen, Ph.D.
Senior Officer – Training & Facilitation

School or Organization Name:

Soliya

Co-Presenter Name(s): N/A

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

Finland, Europe

Language in Which You Will Present:

English

Target Audience(s):

Education instructors, administrators or course developers who

• Have a desire or need to enhance students’ global competencies within their curriculum/program;
• Are planning to incorporate a technology-enabled, intercultural learning component into their curriculum/program.

Short Session Description (one line):
This session will share best practices from Virtual Exchange programming on how curriculum design promotes students’ global competencies through constructive collaboration and communication.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
Virtual Exchange (VE) programs – defined as sustained, technology-enabled, people-to-people education programs – connect learners from across the globe to provide cross-cultural experiences for the youth.

Soliya’s Connect Program is a VE program that has connected young people from different academic disciplines in over 100 universities in 28 countries across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Europe and North America since 2003.

This session will explore how Connect Program’s curriculum design promotes global competencies, and provides both the essential skills and attitudes necessary in today’s education. We will also talk about Soliya’s collaboration with the Saxelab Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at MIT on impact assessment and how we can ensure Virtual Exchange has a real world impact through education.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

www.soliya.net

http://virtualexchangecoalition.org/