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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY GRAD COURSE for TEACHERS ONLINE WINTER QUARTER 2010

EDU T&L 883d Teaching World Cultures and Global Issues will be taught totally online (no coming to campus) WI10.

OVERVIEW 883d is a 3 credit hour graduate course prepares teachers to use online (and other resources) from Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Slavic and Eastern Europe to teach diverse cultures, world history and literature, and global issues. A focus of the course is learning about other cultures and the global status quo through the knowledge, voices, and experiences of diverse people around the world. Includes online cross-cultural interaction with educators in other countries.

READINGS All readings will be online and free. The course is resource rich.

ASSIGNMENTS There are 5 assignments including 1—a bios discussion (short student-developed autobiographies in which we find global connections), 2—small group discussions of some readings and websites, 3— individual projects designed to fit student needs and interests, 4 & 5 —choices from a number of online chats, threaded discussions, or Skype discussions with cultural consultants from various world regions on student-generated topics.

REQUIREMENTS Students will need to access to the course homepage at leasttwice a week from January 4-March 16, and some weeks will need to be online 5-7 hrs in order to complete assignments. Students should have high speed Internet access and some experience with online teaching and learning.

INSTRUCTOR Merry M. Merryfield is a professor in social studies and global education at Ohio State. She has been teaching online courses since 1997. Dr. Merryfield is the winner of 2009 James Becker Award for Global Understanding given by the National Council for the Social Studies and the 2009 Global Scholar award given by the International Assembly of NCSS.

For more information see http://people.ehe.ohio-state.edu/mmerryfield/or email the instructor, Merry Merryfield at merryfield.1@osu.edu