Exploring the Means and Methods of Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Global Classrooms Through Teacher Voices

• In Event: Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Voices of Change in Global Teacher Education

Abstract

Recent educational trends call for globalized classrooms where students learn from their peers and collaboration is seamless across learning environments. The responsibility to meet these requirements falls on the instructors who interact daily with students. This multi-phased study explores the rationales, methods, and tools used by self-identified, global teachers to globalize their instructional practices by using questionnaires, interviews, and artifact analysis, across worldwide global learning networks. The study maps logistical preferences for successful globalized classrooms, and the motivating factors in globalizing educational practices. Another finding was that sustainable collaborations happened in classroom-to-classroom interactions and were student driven and supported by teacher intrinsic motivation.

Authors

• Najia Sabir, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Khendum Gyabak-Kumka, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University

• Michael Karlin, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Shuya Xu, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Pooja Saxena, Indiana Department of Education