Teaching Tools for the Global Age: Call for Proposals

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Technologies & Pedagogies for Teaching Language, Cultures, and International Relations

The challenge of higher education today is to graduate students able to cope and thrive in an increasingly globalized, fragmented world. To do so, colleges and universities must help students understand other cultures and societies and the relationships between them. Technology, the harbinger and engine of modern globalization, offers a number of tools that can be used to facilitate teaching about the peoples of the world and their relationships with each other. It can also be used to teach languages, the most direct, effective tool for intercultural communication. The "Teaching Tools for the Global Age" event series considers effective, innovative uses of technology in the context of a liberal arts curriculum, presenting teaching materials, projects, and assignments in interactive sessions for faculty and staff.

To ensure that sessions in the series address the needs of liberal arts colleges and universities, NITLE invites proposals for the remaining sessions for spring 2010. (Sessions already scheduled for this spring are listed to the right.) Please submit your proposals to Rebecca Davis by Monday, February 1, 2010.

Sessions may take one of the following forms:

  1. Individual Presentation + Participant Interaction – A single presenter shares particular expertise or a project, followed by a discussion or some other form of participant interaction.
  2. Panel Presentations – Multiple presenters speak about a common theme or topic.
  3. Online workshop – Guided browsing and application sharing are possible in the virtual auditorium, making this type of session possible. You may propose a session you wish to lead yourself or propose a topic and ask NITLE to seek expert presenters.
  4. Proposal for a presentation from a presenter from outside the NITLE Network – Is there someone who is not from a participating institution or on NITLE staff but who could speak to the concerns of our community? Propose them with as much biographical and contact information as possible, and NITLE will see if something can be arranged.
  5. Some other format not listed here.

Sessions take place from 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. (Eastern) every other Thursday in NITLE's virtual auditorium.