About this class
In November 2016, the Durham College Victimology Program, National Victim Justice Network and Durham College Global Classroom piloted a unique event: the VJN Global Classroom Project.
The Global Class at Durham College is an interactive, high definition livestreamed class allowing learners and community partners an opportunity to interact free of outside influence and geographic boundaries. Our Global Class event brought students, researchers and our community partners together in real time. Students had the opportunity to learn from and interact with expert researchers and victim service workers on a national level.
Recognizing that students, clinical practitioners, and law enforcement officials require access to emerging research trends on assessment and treatment practice, the GC event allowed for feedback and questions from professional practitioners via Twitter. As well, the project provided access to an educational experience otherwise reserved for those attending costly conferences and webinars.
The project acted as a conduit for the dissemination of information crucial to students entering their vocational field and provided professional practitioners and community stakeholders real time access to an expert researcher.
This workshop will discuss and demonstrate the Global Classroom at Durham College and highlight the two VJN Global Classroom Projects completed in November 2016 and June 2017. Participants will have an opportunity to see portions of the events and discuss the functionality of the technology and process of the GC. The presenters will discuss our view of the best practice and lessons learned as we move forward with our students and national community partners.
FORMAT
The objective of a global class is to encourage interaction between groups of people from different parts of the world while giving them the opportunity to engage directly with an accomplished global thinker, doer, or researcher.
The class is a conversation, an intercultural back-and-forth in which the host and guest are among the participants.
Before the class, please familiarize yourself with the resources posted here on the page for this class (“class page”). Give some thought to what you might want to ask or say in the class, perhaps even prepare a statement you would like to make.
If there are resources you would like to add, please send them to Lon.Appleby@durhamcollege.ca.
The intent of a global class is to give participants the opportunity to develop their creative and critical thinking for the complex planet-wide world we live in. By the end of the 90-minute class, the participants will have explored an important shared issue, been introduced to new perspectives, improved their problem solving skills, enriched their understanding of world as a whole.
After the class, participants are welcome to continue the conversation on the blog on the class page, where the live class also remains. Assignments can be posted on the class page, along with resources that participants may wish to share with one another.
Please connect 15 minutes before the start of the class and sit close to your camera and microphone.
See you in class!
Host
Global Learning Facilitator, Centre for Academic and Faculty Enrichment, Durham College