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Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
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Coil Experience. Intercultural Case Analysis: Sports Brand Company Perspectives From Canada And Spain, Jody-Lynn Rebek, Víctor Del Corte Lora, Eunjung Riauka
Coil Experience. Intercultural Case Analysis: Sports Brand Company Perspectives From Canada And Spain, Jody-Lynn Rebek, Víctor Del Corte Lora, Eunjung Riauka
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
The COVID-19 pandemic posed many challenges, including travel restrictions, which limited the opportunities for student-exchange programs. One solution to promote intercultural learning during the pandemic and form relations with students in different countries was COIL. This paper presents a Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning (COIL) case study that engaged students from Canada and Spain in an intercultural learning experience. Instructors worked collaboratively to design learning objectives and related course activities to establish a five (5) week program of co-instruction within their higher-education course schedules. Using technology, and a combination of asynchronous and synchronous opportunities, students were engaged in the course content …
Real Pandemic: Institutional Neglect, Goli Rezai-Rashti,, Shamiga Arumuhathas, Fengchenzi Zhao
Real Pandemic: Institutional Neglect, Goli Rezai-Rashti,, Shamiga Arumuhathas, Fengchenzi Zhao
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
The neoliberal market-reform within the Canadian tertiary education sector led to the proliferation in student mobility, which has translated to 600,000 international students (IS) over the past two decades (Scott et al., 2015; Firang, 2020), contributing to Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) by $26.1 billion (IRCC, 2019). Racialized IS attending post-secondary education (PSE) in Canada accounted for systemic barriers that thereby hinder their student experience and academic outcomes. Such challenges included culture shock (Popadiuk & Arthur, 2004), linguistic speaking barriers (Guo & Guo, 2017), discrimination (Myles & Cheng, 2003; Chen & Zhou, 2019), employment exploitation (Scott et al., 2015), securing …