Designing Globally Networked Learning Environments

Virtual Partnerships: Engaging Students in E-service Learning Using Computer-mediated Communication

“…As the trend in virtual partnerships increases there is greater demand on students and professionals to work online. CMC has provided new forms of transnational community engagement which ‘build rich shared learning and knowledge cultures’ (Starke-Meyerring & Wilson, 2008, p. 7). Increasing importance is being placed on virtual or e-service learning in professional degrees to provide opportunities for students to connect with global partners and ‘collaboratively solve open-ended problems’ (Johnson, 2013, p.1; also see Starke-Meyerring, 2008).…”

“…CMC has provided new forms of transnational community engagement which ‘build rich shared learning and knowledge cultures’ (Starke-Meyerring & Wilson, 2008, p. 7). Increasing importance is being placed on virtual or e-service learning in professional degrees to provide opportunities for students to connect with global partners and ‘collaboratively solve open-ended problems’ (Johnson, 2013, p.1; also see Starke-Meyerring, 2008). These collaborations are variously called virtual partnerships (Ratcheva & Vyakarnam, 2001), e-service (Strait & Sauer, 2004), globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) (Starke-Meyerring, 2008) and international service learning (Johnson, 2013; Crabtree, 2008).…”

“…Increasing importance is being placed on virtual or e-service learning in professional degrees to provide opportunities for students to connect with global partners and ‘collaboratively solve open-ended problems’ (Johnson, 2013, p.1; also see Starke-Meyerring, 2008). These collaborations are variously called virtual partnerships (Ratcheva & Vyakarnam, 2001), e-service (Strait & Sauer, 2004), globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) (Starke-Meyerring, 2008) and international service learning (Johnson, 2013; Crabtree, 2008). Mufeti, Foster and Terzoli (2012) define virtual partnerships as ‘collaborations between geographically dispersed institutions, where interaction between these institutions is enabled mainly by electronic modes of communication’ (p. 1).…”

“…It empowers communities as collaborators in knowledge production and social action (Crabtree, 2008). Service learning heightens awareness of social problems (Markers, Howard & King, 1993), giving students a global perspective of subject matter as well as encouraging them to question the ‘common sense’ that organizes their own world (Starke-Meyerring, 2008). Students also learn to negotiate divergent genres, build shared knowledge cultures and understand locally situated knowledge-making practices (Starke-Meyerring 2008), what Sapp (2004) described as being challenged to examine their own ethnocentrism.…”

International Virtual Collaboration in Advertising Courses: Building International and Intercultural Skills From Home

“…The adoption of globalization practices around the world has resulted in changes not only in people’s geographic mobility around the world but also in the flow of information, languages, and cultures, which affect education practices (Finardi & Rojo, 2015). Faculty and administrators are now placing greater emphasis on internationalization of campuses and curricula, making global efforts a strategic priority for many universities (Kapitzke & Peters, 2007; Starke-Meyerring & Wilson, 2008). Guimaraes et al.…”