UNC-Chapel Hill launches initiative to connect Carolina classrooms with the world

Twelve faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were granted Collaborative Online International Learning  Partnership Awards through a new initiative launched in May, Connecting Carolina Classrooms with the World, from the Office of the Vice Provost for 全球 Affairs for the 2020-21 academic year. Each award recipient is working with a peer instructor at an international institution to create shared learning experiences for students in both countries (or, 有一次, 三个国家).

Students will work together for at least three weeks, examining course topics from cultural 和 societal perspectives. 例如, 留置权Truong, assistant professor in Carolina’s art 和 art history department, is offering an art course in Chapel Hill in which Carolina students will learn the material history 和 traditional Vietnamese silk painting techniques studied by their peers at the Vietnam University of Fine 艺术. Truong’s course will culminate in a portrait exchange between the students, with silk portraits painted by VUFA students 和 oil or acrylic ones painted by their peers at Carolina.

The Carolina faculty represent several professional schools 和 College of 艺术 & 科学部门, 和 they are partnering with colleagues at eight international institutions, including UNC-Chapel Hill strategic partners King’s College London 和 Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.

Each UNC-Chapel Hill faculty participant was awarded a $3,000课程发展奖, 和, 在需要的时候, 额外1美元,500 for graduate student support for implementation of the first semester in which the course is taught.

另外, 沙龙大炮, clinical professor of management 和 corporate communication at the UNC 凯南-弗拉格勒商学院, also received a grant from the American Council on 教育 to support COIL activity in partnership with Sophia University in Japan.

“Students 和 faculty are using technology in powerful ways to ensure global learning continues even as international travel remains severely disrupted,芭芭拉说。. Stephenson, vice provost for global affairs 和 chief global officer at UNC-Chapel Hill. “我们都在学习, 全球教育, 研究, 合作可以, 借助科技, thrive even when we are physically at a distance.”

The initiative is organized by Katie Bowler Young, director of global relations for the Office of the Vice Provost for 全球 Affairs, 和希瑟·沃德, associate dean for study abroad 和 exchange. COIL Partnership Awards were offered for the 2020-21 pilot project in June, 和 future courses will be eligible for funding through Curriculum Development Awards for COIL administered by UNC 全球 Relations.