The Virtual Exchange (GOLE) courses as High Impact Practices demonstrate how students can learn effectively and prepare excellent tools for the job market and graduate applications.

Moderator: Zoe Petropoulou, Associate Professor & Senior Director for Global Engagement

Panelists:
Neil Feinstein, Associate Professor, Mass Communication, CCPS

Journey Mapping across the Atlantic: A challenge to communicate and collaborate.

Nothing is more critical to a successful advertising campaign than understanding the customer—who s/he is. What s/he cares about. Why s/he’d buy your product instead of the competition’s. One proven route to this deep insight is by building a Customer Journey Map, a methodology that is foundational to any integrated advertising program. Because of its universality, Customer Journey Mapping was an ideal project for GOLE. As students worked through each segment of the scaffolded assignments, they used technology to overcome the communication challenge and online tools to collaborate on the assignments. This presentation will take you through each stage of the program, step by step, and demonstrate the strategies students used to become better at collaboration and communication.

Dolore Bushati, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, CCPS

Building intercultural and interprofessional competencies through global exchange Analysis of an International Business

Learning key concepts to analyze business from Microeconomics perspective and becoming familiar with accounting documents such as Balance sheet and Income statement, which provide important knowledge for students’ success in a free and globalized market. Added the skills and competencies emphasized through the GOLE project such as, teamwork, communication skills, intercultural awareness and openness, digital skills, critical thinking, and professionalism, make GOLE an excellent program to prepare our students for the future job market. This presentation I will go over our GOLE project. It will focus more on the results from students’ perspective in accomplishing the objectives of the course, the skills and competencies learned.

Keith Cozine, Chair and Full Professor of Homeland Security, CCPS

Global On-line Learning Exchange (GOLE) as a tool for developing counterterrorism strategies across cultures.

The presentation will focus on the GOLE collaboration between the students at Edith Cowan University in Perth, WA, Australia and St John’s University and the way it brought together faculty and students with international counterparts in cross-cultural learning experiences.