Teaching Asia in Europe (online

Description

Advances in information and communication technology offer tremendous opportunities for enhancing international collaboration around innovative projects in teaching and learning. In this article we use a case study of the Global E-School in Eurasia project, an online learning platform we established to offer courses on Asia (Korea, specifically), to discuss opportunities and challenges arising from the expansion of digital education. As it intervenes in debates on active teaching and learning in international studies, the article’s purpose is three-fold. Firstly, we discuss how cultural diversity plays out in large international projects. Next, we explore the extent to which digital education offers efficient and effective platforms for international collaboration. Thirdly, we are interested in exploring how the use of video-conferencing tools and specific tools in virtual learning environments affected student learning. For each of these three themes we review the opportunities offered by the project and the challenges we were confronted with. Based on our reflections on this five-year project and the course evaluations we conclude that advances in digital education, most notably the application of a blended model to teaching and learning, allows for effective learning and deeper collaboration, institutionally and cross-culturally.

Period	28 Aug 2019 → 1 Sept 2019
Held at	American Political Science Association
Degree of Recognition	International