The the Global Classrooms Collaborative supports faculty in incorporating opportunities for their students to work across borders with other students around the globe.
Global Classrooms Collaborative
The Haenicke Institute for Global Education seeks applications for faculty to join the Global Classrooms Collaborative for Spring 2025. Faculty selected will meet during the spring semester in a facilitated learning community that will offer a step-by-step process to design a collaborative online international learning experience for their students, including assistance matching with an international faculty partner if needed. Those selected will receive a grant, half of which will be distributed during the Spring 2025 Collaborative with the other half distributed after implementation of the Global Classrooms course and completion of a final report.
Learn more at one of the upcoming Fall information sessions
What is a collaborative online international learning (COIL) experience?
Collaborate with faculty abroad to provide opportunities for your students to work across borders with other students around the globe. Students work cooperatively and collaboratively across time, distance, and cultures on projects that are implemented in your classroom curriculum.
What does the Global Classrooms Collaborative provide for faculty?
Faculty will work with a facilitator over the course of the spring semester on six modules and meetings. During the semester faculty learn about the fundamentals of COIL, creating a strong partnership, assessment, how to prepare students, technology and problem solving, experiential learning pedagogies and other topics to prepare them for their global classroom experience. Faculty will have the opportunity to network with potential international partners with the intention that the global classroom will be implemented Summer or Fall 2025 or Spring 2026.
Outcomes include:
- A revised syllabus that includes a Global Classrooms experience for their students
- An international partner and set of tasks/questions they can use to build trust and collaboration between one other
- Specifics about implementing a Global Classroom, e.g.
Technologies available
Preparing students to work cross culturally
Problem solving during the Global Classroom experience
- Methods for assessment planning, with attention to the WMU university-wide Global Learning Objectives https://wmich.edu/global/learningoutcomes
- Strengthened cross-cultural facilitation and dialogue
- A more cosmopolitan perspective on education in general, and
- Opportunity to meet other faculty across campus interested in internationalizing their courses
The grant will be provided to faculty either as a stipend (taxed) or deposited into their departmental research accounts. Half of the grant will be distributed during the Spring Collaborative and the other half will be distributed after the implementation of the Global Classrooms course with completion of the final report.
Who can apply?
This opportunity is aimed at faculty
-without significant previous international experience in the area of teaching;
-who are interested in providing their students with more international engagement;
-who are interested in working collaboratively with faculty colleagues abroad;
-and are not sure where to start.
Funding is made available through Article 40.4 of the WMU-AAUP Contract. The grant is open to faculty holding board-appointed faculty rank who are members of the bargaining unit at the time the application is due. The Collaborative is designed for undergraduate courses. Preference will be given to WES courses and those taught more frequently.
Timeline
- Grant Opens: September 1
- Grant Information Workshops: September and October
- Application Due: October 15
- Applications Reviewed: October
- Applicants Informed: November 6
- First Grant Payment: January
- Collaborative Meetings-Late January through April
- Curriculum Implemented: Fall or Spring
- Final Report Due: January for Fall semester course; May for Spring semester course
- Final Grant Payment: After receipt of Final Report
How to Apply
Faculty can download the application and Department Chair Support Form here.
Global Classroom Collaborative Application
Applications are due by October 15 midnight.
A complete application includes:
- Applicant Information
- CV
- Course information and a syllabus for the proposed course to work on during the Collaborative
- Short answer questions about your goals for implementing a Global Classroom, your experience working cross culturally, your goals for your students, etc.
- Support for the application from the Department Chair (GCC Chair Support Form)
Final Report
At the conclusion of the course implementation participants will complete a final report after which the second payment of the grant will be distributed. The final report will be shared with faculty during the Collaborative.
Questions:
Questions about the application process can be directed to Dr. Michelle Metro-Roland, Associate Director, External Scholarships and Faculty Development.
PREVIOUS GLOBAL CLASSROOM COLLABORATIVE PARTICIPANTS
Dr. Jessica Cataldo, School of Interdisciplinary Health Programs, College of Heath and Human Services. Course: The Health System and Its Environment
Dr. Yufeng Hu, Civil and Construction Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Course: Senior Design Project
Marie Moreno, Business Information Systems, Haworth College of Business. Course: Business Communication for Worldwide Sustainability
Dr. Anna Popkova, School of Communications, College of Arts and Sciences. Course: Intro to Public Relations.
Dr. Xiaojun Wang, World Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences. Course: Contemporary China.
Jeremy Blair, Dance, College of Fine Arts. Course: Race Gender and Dance
Dr. Angela Groves, Bronson School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services. Course: Health Care Ethics
Dr. Mariam Konaté, Institute for Intercultural and Anthropological Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. Course: Forms of Black Consciousness
Dr. Brianne Pitts, Teaching, Learning, and Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Development. Course: Teaching Elementary Social Studies
Dr. Maria Roche-Dean, Bronson School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services. Course: Concepts of Health and Wellness Throughout the Lifespan
Dr. Sophie Tang, Irving S. Gilmore School of Music College of Fine Arts. Course: Applied Violin Lessons-Violin Repertoire by Asian Composers
Previous Global Classroom Curriculum Development Grant RECIPIENTS
Dr. Mioara Diaconu School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services. Courses: Global Emergency Management and Crisis Intervention. Partnering Institution: Tel-Hai College, Israel. Summer 2022.
Dr. Ramona Lewis, Educational Leadership, Technology, and Research, College of Education and Human Development. Courses: Foundations of Student Affairs in Higher Education. Partnering Institution: University of Toronto, Canada. Spring 2022.
Dr. Jennifer Harrison, School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services. Courses: Social Work with Communities and Social Changes and Community Analysis. Partnering Institution: Universidad Autonomo de Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Summer II, 2021.
Dr. Martha Councell-Vargas, School of Music, College of Fine Arts. Course: Applied Flute Lessons for Undergraduate Performance. Partnering Institution: Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador. Spring 2021.
Dr. Dawn Anderson, Blindness and Low Vision Studies, College of Health and Human Services. Course: Expanded Core Curriculum and Assessment for Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired. Partner Institution: College of Orientation and Mobility, South African Guide-Dogs Association. Spring 2020.
Dr. Amos Aduroja, School of Interdisciplinary Health Programs, College of Health and Human Services. Course: Advocating for Health Policy. Partnering Institution: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Fall 2019.
Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Course: Mechanical and Space Engineering. Multiple partner institutions. Fall 2019.