Transcript See Dr Shanton Chang s presentation slides

Building cross-cultural understanding
among local and international
students through enhanced teaching
and learning practices in the
Commerce Faculty
A joint project: FCA and SLSS
The team
Vicky Mabin (FCA)
Karen Commons (SLSS)
John Brocklesby (FCA)
Val Lindsay (FCA)
Simon Park (FCA)
David Crick (FCA)
Adrienne McGovern-Wilson (FCA)
Xiaodan Gao (SLSS)
Jan Stewart (SLSS)
• Supported by Learning and Teaching Development
Fund 2011
Purpose of the project
• To produce students who can function
effectively as leaders in a global
community.
Purpose of today
• To build support for this initiative among
FCA staff and associated staff on
campus
• To gain enough material/ideas for an
action plan to fulfill our project purpose
Your role
• To brainstorm with us
• To contribute ideas
Format of the day
• Presentation from Shanton Chang,
Melbourne University
• Presentation of FCA student and staff
perspectives on this issue
• Discussion of what we can do and how
we’ll do it
Introduce Shanton and his
expertise in relation to our
project
• A case study of something that’s
working in Australia
Where are we at in FCA at
Victoria?
• Curriculum mapping
• Graduate destinations survey
• Student and staff surveys
What do student and staff
survey results tell us?
Work, travel study overseas
Students
Staff
Most useful
(Not asked, but not
encouraged)
Discuss how concepts apply in other
Very useful,
countries
frequently
Discuss examples from outside NZ, in class done
Research into overseas experiences
Get to know overseas students
International case competitions
Work with students based overseas
Working in discussion groups, in class or on
assignments/projects with
domestic/international students
Hear presentations from international
students
Very useful,
frequently done
Quite useful,
Not very useful,
not often done not often done
Not at all
useful,
frequently
done
Very useful, and
agree it is
frequently done
What does a student
management assignment tell us?
What initiatives have we tried
so far?
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GEE running successfully several years
International experience in courses
Cross-cultural communications in courses
ExcelL programme training – 6 from FCA in 2010
Interventions in INFO 101, MARK 101, IBUS
201, IBUS 306
• Survey staff/students
• Vic OE study
In order to develop students’
international experience
We need to develop an action plan that:
• Builds staff acceptance
• Builds student acceptance
• Is doable/achievable
• Meshes with our values
Starting this July!
Resources from SLSS