ERIC Number: EJ1155801
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Oct
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Bringing "Internationalization at Home" Opportunities to Community Colleges: Design and Assessment of an Online Exchange Activity between U.S. and Japanese Students
Custer, Lindsay; Tuominen, Anne
Teaching Sociology, v45 n4 p347-357 Oct 2017
Increasing college students' exposure to global contexts and improving their intercultural competency remain challenging educational objectives, especially at the community college level. Fortunately, the recent shift in higher education from study abroad opportunities toward so-called "internationalization at home" initiatives, where students interact with people from cultures outside their own while remaining on their home campuses, offers new options. In this article, we describe a virtual exchange activity that we conducted between our sociology courses at a community college in the United States and two universities in Japan. We show through our assessment of the students' experiences that a well-coordinated, carefully crafted, technology-enhanced internationalization at home activity has the potential to offer important global learning opportunities and intercultural competency development for sociology students who may otherwise lack the means to participate in study abroad.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Global Approach, Online Courses, International Educational Exchange, Virtual Classrooms, Sociology, Intercultural Programs, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Influence of Technology, Learning Activities, Student Participation, Interaction, Pretests Posttests, Student Surveys, Student Experience, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Japan; Washington
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