TLC at APSA Luncheon: Online Learning and a Global Student Body

Session Submission Type: TLC Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel will bring together experts who have worked in online learning in pursuit of developing modes of learning which engage students independent of their country of origin to build a global learning community. Focusing primarily on teaching international relations and diplomacy this panel will address how we teach to students of varying backgrounds, experiences and cultures and engage them in a global conversation. With case studies from experienced academics and those who practice diplomacy this panel looks at the benefits a difficulties of engaging with a particular focus on overcoming attainment gaps of traditionally disadvantaged groups within western society and for students in the Global South.

Sub Unit

• TLC at APSA

Individual Presentations

• On-Line Learning and Inequalities in a Globalization 4.0 Era - Nanette S. Levinson, American University-SIS

• Building Online Learning Communities - Ashley Cox, SOAS, University of London

• Practice to Teaching: a Diplomats Experience - Paul Kreutzer, U.S. Department of State

• Teaching and Learning with the Excluded & Beyond Borders - Carlos Salvador Zepeda, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Chair

• Ashley Cox SOAS, University of London

Discussant

• Derrick L. Cogburn American University