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Latest posts
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How much blended learning?
in PedagogySomeone asked me an interesting question recently: Why do you think there is so little take up of blended learning in UK universities? And that the little that there is, is so bad? The short answer is I don’t know. The long answer needs to start by defining blended learning and by asking whether it is…
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Taking sides
Invited as a guest to Franklin Yartey’s intercultural class in Dubuque, we agreed on the topic of the refugee crisis as manifest in Denmark.
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Personas: what are they good for?
When I learned about personas recently I thought this is so obvious, why haven’t we done this before? But often the best ideas are the ones that seem obvious after the fact. The idea of building up a description of one or more users can have several applications. I see it now as a possibility…
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Happy Birthday to us!
Yes, it’s been ten years and 200 shows! The latest Absolutely Intercultural show marks ten years of podcasting about intercultural matters! And the above audio is a five and a half minute summary of the full 27 minute show which you can find on the Absolutely Intercultural website. We started in 2006 exactly ten years…
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RELAX – an approach to CRT
Al-Issa’s paper from 2005 provides a useful framework for examining cultural differences, especially those which could lead to conflict. Although the paper is clearly aimed at East versus West issues as evidenced by its title, “When the west teaches the east: analyzing intercultural conflict in the classroom”, the guidance in this article is potentially useful…
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Teaching migrants
The latest Absolutely Intercultural podcast features two teachers talking about the challenges of teaching diverse groups. Jennifer Appave at Kalø Højskole in Denmark and Alexandra Haas of VHS Rhein-Sieg in Germany talk about their experiences with various groups inlcuding refugees.
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Internationalising an adult education institution
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” Oscar Wilde In my final report from the Internationalisation conference (in Danish) in Copenhagen last week we will look at the example of an adult education institution, VUC Storstrøm (in English). The main message from this second chance institution is that internationalisation…
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Internationalisation: not just for teachers
Internationalisation of education does not just have to happen at institutional level; it can happen at local government level and there was a wonderful example of this at the recent conference (in Danish) on internationalisation in Copenhagen last week. The municipality of Aalborg wants nothing less than to be the best place for education in Denmark…
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Internationalisation of a Youth organisation
So how does an organisation internationalise itself? At the recent Internationalisation conference in Copenhagen we heard about one youth organisation’s experience.
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Why internationalisation?
Key Action 1 Erasmus+ proposals must be based on an internationalisation plan. This means that your institution needs a plan about how it will internationalise or Europeanise, before funding can be granted for specific projects. In my last post I mentioned that this was primarily as a way of improving quality in learning. So let’s take a…