Karen Bernhardt-Walther: Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2024
Karen Bernhardt-Walther and Matthias Lang (LMU) have won the prestigious the European Economics Association (EEA) Award for Innovation in Teaching. Their LMU-York Virtual Journal Club for Undergraduates uses new technologies to create an environment where undergraduates in two universities meet virtually to discuss economics research.
Yfile: Project brings together dance students from YorkU, Japan
Lisa Sandlos, a faculty member in York U’s School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies and the Faculty of Education, along with her Japanese partner have offered across-cultural learning experiences through a dance-somatic movement seminar.
Yfile: Staff member illustrates leadership in globally networked learning
April 5, 2024
Francesca Boschetti, associate director of the York University English Language Institute (YUELI) in the School of Continuing Studies, gave a talk at the Languages Canada Annual Conference in Vancouver showcasing her groundbreaking work in globally networked learning.
Yfile: Inaugural GNL project brings students together
March 14, 2024
Hugo Chen, director of international collaborations and partnerships for York University’s Faculty of Science, found a way to provide students with a global engagement opportunity.
Yfile: GNL project inspires future French-language teachers
February 2, 2024
A French immersion high-school teacher who joined York University’s Glendon College pursued a Globally Networked Learning (GNL) project to help his students build connections and advance their academic journeys.
Yfile: Globally Networked Learning Virtual Journal Club: An extra-credit project going strong
Yfile: Professor provides GNL experiences with Latin American partners
April 14, 2023
Marlon Valencia, an assistant professor in the Department of English at Glendon College, is using remote course delivery to ensure students can benefit from experiential learning opportunities with academic partners across Latin America.
Yfile: Globally Networked Learning Virtual Journal Club: An extra-credit project going strong
June 29, 2021
On a Thursday morning in January, a group of York University economics students are deeply engaged in discussing economic questions regarding trade, history and geography during their weekly Zoom session with fellow economics students at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, under the guidance of professors Karen Bernhardt-Walther (York) and Matthias Lang (LMU).
Yfile: Global Health students meet and collaborate with European peers through GNL
April 7, 2021
Faculty of Health Assistant Professor Mathieu Poirier views the willingness to try innovative pedagogical approaches as “one of the rare silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Poirier and his students in the Global Health program worked with York’s Globally Networked Learning team to collaborate with students and professors at universities in Germany and Romania.
University Affairs: Keeping global learning alive in an age of remote course delivery
March 26, 2021
Inspired by the collaborative online international learning model, Globally Networked Learning (GNL) invites students and teachers to experience the “international” through collaborative experiences with peers from other parts of the world. Students and faculty members can integrate collaborative activities within courses, such as joint lectures, talks, presentations and projects building global competencies, intercultural and communication skills, as well as expand their knowledge by integrating international perspectives and insights.
Yfile: Virtual Indigenous Student Exchange Program a hit with participants
March 21, 2021
Students and faculty alike are applauding the Indigenous Student Exchange Program, an eight-week pilot program that will end with a virtual public celebration of cross-cultural and transnational learning on April 7.
Education News Canada: Globally Networked Learning shines during pandemic
November 5, 2020
Globally networked learning provides hands-on opportunities for students to learn how to collaborate with individuals from a different culture. Currently, with classes being delivered remotely due to public health and travel restrictions, GNL projects also let students learn how to collaborate via online platforms, similar to the way a team of colleagues works in an international company. With York University courses all being delivered remotely during the pandemic and exchange programs on hold, it's a perfect time for faculty members to consider building a globally networked learning component into their syllabuses.
Yfile: Quick pandemic pivot provides a globally networked learning opportunity
September 16, 2020
In an ordinary year, the final course of Glendon College’s Certificate in the Discipline of Teaching English as an International Language (DTEIL) offers fourth-year students the opportunity to go abroad and test their skills in a foreign classroom. The novel coronavirus interrupted plans to go abroad but did not prevent a globally networked learning opportunity for students.
Hemispheric University Consortium News: Shaping Global Citizens Online: The New Normal in Tec de Monterrey
September 16, 2020
The global pandemic has reshaped the way universities teach, by searching for new collaboration. Global Vision is a core competency for Tec de Monterrey and for the Educational Model TEC21. The students of the 26 campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey started their fall semester in a hybrid flexible model, where most classes are taken online. and some are hybrid: they combine going to laboratory sessions inside campus installations and taking theory classes in a digital platform.
Yfile: Globally Networked Learning providing to be an effect Pedagogy.
October 19, 2017
The project team behind Globally Networked Learning, an initiative funded by York University’s Academic Innovation Fund, has been exploring approaches to pedagogy that allow for experiential learning in an internationally focused curriculum.
Yfile: Faculty Bootcamp and Webinar Sessions offered by Globally Networked Learning Project.
May 10, 2017
York University faculty members will be able to take Bootcamp and webinar sessions offered by the Globally Networked Learning Project this summer. The sessions are designed for faculty members, as well as the library and IT staff, who wish to mount or provide support for internationalized courses and classrooms at York.
Yfile: Globally Networked Learning Project announces new seminar series, faculty workshops, student focus groups.
January 17, 2017
Building on the success of the fall 2016 faculty workshops and student focus group discussions at the Keele and Glendon campuses, the Globally Networked Learning (GNL) Project at York University will launch its winter 2017 program on January 25, 2017.
