Learning does not stop at a time. People continue to learn through their personal and professional experiences. Today, more than ever, continuous learning is a requirement to remain relevant in the professional field. Sharing your expertise with others is an effective way of learning.
This Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) activity provides an experience by collaborating across academic disciplines and countries. Graduate Students from Tec de Monterrey (Mexico) and from San Jose State University (USA) will practice team building, intercultural communication, use of technologies for learning and critical thinking.
By the end of this experience, you will be able to:
Develop your ability to communicate effectively through an online interaction with people from different cultures and disciplines.
Develop critical and analytical thinking by recognizing and emphasizing the existence and validity of other types of thinking, as well as reflect, coexist, dialogue, share, act and solve problems in contexts marked by social and cultural diversity.
Develop a deeper understainding of the ethical dimensions of your experiences in educational settings based on international collaboration, intercultural communication, and concerns for sustainability in education.
By the end of the experience and through use of shared technologies:
You will be able to understand, communicate and work with peers of diverse cultures by sharing perspectives given certain situations.
You will recognize some of your own taken-for-granted beliefs about education schoooling given the international collaboration and intercultural communication.
You will reinforce what you know by sharing expertise. Nothing helps deepen knowledge effectively as sharing it. It also expands what you know. Sharing your expertise means inviting a new conversation. If you keep your eyes, ears, and mind open, you may learn something in the process as well. It establisshes your reputation as an authority. If you want to be seen as a leader in your field, you have to let others know what you have to offer. Instead of telling people you´re an expert, give them a taste in a way that helps raise their level of expertise too; it increases your professsional value. When your expertise helps the entire team, you become a more valuable part of it. Your presence is worth more to the organization.
You will be able to formulate plans and strategies for the inclusion of international perspectives in the schools, districts, institutions and workplaces that you inhabit.
You will learn a way to collaborate on international online learning, through engaging in shared tasks on tools such as Padlet, Slack and Zoom.