What Do These Students Think of Us? Managing Intergroup Anxiety in a Virtually-Connected Course
López I.; Felmban W.
2021
The Wiley Handbook of Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement
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10.1002/9781119634867.ch9
A key goal in the teaching of cross-cultural psychology is helping students learn about the experiences of others. In this chapter the authors outline the goals, impact, and logistics of a virtually-connected course, between Kenyon College, a co-ed small liberal arts college in rural Ohio in the USA, and Effat University, an all-women’s private university in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. They describe assignments that were geared toward helping students appreciate cultural differences, as per the AACandU Global VALUE Learning Rubric, while trying to manage the anxiety of students as they get to know one another. Global learning, with its emphasis on learning about others, is a high-impact practice that helps students understand phenomena from different perspectives and aides in the development of global mental models. © 2022 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
cross-cultural psychology; global learning; Global VALUE Learning Rubric; Kenyon College; language anxiety; rural Ohio; Saudi Arabia; virtually-connected course
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