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Bringing the World into the Classroom: National Award Winners

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University was recognized for their International Collaborative Construction Management course. This course is designed to expose students from the US, Turkey, Brazil, and Israel to an international collaboration experience, which will provide them with skills for working with local engineers and managers on international projects. This virtual international joint venture is supported by common commercially available technologies, to simulate a real world environment, and collaboration is further facilitated through video-conferencing systems.

The Center for Collaborative Online International Learning at The SUNY Global Center

The Center for Collaborative Online International Learning at The SUNY Global Center was recognized for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). The COIL Center's mission is to develop and implement online collaborative international courses as a format for experiential cross-cultural learning. COIL has worked with 17 SUNY campuses helping them to create globally networked courses with partner schools in at least 10 countries.

University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado at Boulder was recognized for One International Baccalaureate Degree: Three Universities, an initiative aimed at establishing an International Bachelor's degree in a science-oriented track that is awarded in partnership with the University of Wollongong in Australia, and Dublin City University in Ireland. Students in this degree program participate in video conference classes, let jointly by a faculty member at each university, which is then complemented by personal communication among classmates using Skype.

Wagner College

Wagner College, in coordination with The Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece, was recognized for Introducing International Learning Communities in an Online Environment. This initiative provides an opportunity for students and faculty from these two institutions to interact in a semester long learning community. Through teleconferencing, Smart-Board, Moodle (course management system), and Skype, students worked in dyads and teams to meet the objectives of the International Business Communication course.