GLOBE

Global Learning Opportunities: Bridges and Engagement

Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche www.globallearningnews.com

Be a Global Learner! Global Learning Opportunities: Bridges and Engagement (GLOBE) is a model of global collaboration and creative ideas to enhance our learning programs. Background I have been a world traveler for more than 40 years visiting more than 50 countries. Some of the trips have been for vacations and tourism while others have been for business, international affairs, World Scouting, Navy, TEDx or educational purposes. I have attended several international conferences and I have been speaker in some of them including IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Research Reactors in Germany, UNESCO Knowledge Communications in Venezuela, and several UNAD business, education, and technology conferences in Colombia. Our first trips to the US created the conditions to emigrate from Venezuela to be “American by Choice”. I became US citizen in 2006. Our trips and engagement with local businesses, cultures, and history have shaped our business and educational activities. Global connections and collaborations have allowed us to work and volunteer in many countries including most of Latin America, Europe and Australia. Global Learning Initiatives Based on these experiences, several global initiatives have been incorporated to our ground and online courses in more than 15 years of teaching in higher education. These initiatives include:

1. Blogs, wikis, and websites to add current and global content to our technology and management courses. (www.globallearningnews.com)

2. Photo Albums with our own pictures about nuclear energy, electricity, transportation, technologies, environmental issues, political issues, international businesses, and current events. Flickr, Instagram (@DrLepervanche)

3. Production of our own videos to use in courses, seminars, and outside the classroom. All videos located in a You Tube Channel (www.drjosechannel.com)

4. TED, TEDx, and TED Ed Learning initiatives including TEDxFSCJ events, salons, Live streaming, and adventures. Attendance to TEDx events in Jacksonville and abroad. TED Ed Lessons Workshop facilitator

5. Guest speakers from different local and international industries in our Management and Technology courses.

6. Active participation as presenter in all International Conferences on College Teaching and Learning. Workshop.

7. Social Media Learning. Active use of Facebook Pages to share knowledge outside the classroom. Granted copyright for Social Media Slides®

8. Youth Leadership facilitator. Course Director of BSA National Youth Leadership Training and staff since 2007.

9. CPR / AED advocate. Created Healthy Hearts to promote CPR and AED training. 10. Creation of the Personal Leadership System® that combines corporate

management concepts with personal life leadership skills. 11. Use of “Be-Outside-The-Box initiative to promote outdoors classrooms and

collaborative learning outside the classroom. 12. Attendance to World Scout Jamboree in Japan. Hiroshima Peace Program.

Hiroshima 70 years later presentation. 13. Global Learning News. A media outlet to integrate our Global Learning

Adventures, seminars, class resources, videos, and blogs under one place. (www.globallearningnews.com)

14. TECHKnowledge. Videos about emerging technologies and globalization. It includes TEDxFSCJ Learning Advenures and TED Ed Lessons. (www.lepervanche.com/techknowledge)

15. Facilitation to CAYA international students coming from Central America to FSCJ. Personal Leadership System® presentation in Spanish.

16. Active participation in FSCJ Global Engagement Committee. 17. Speaker at the HILL Hispanic Institute for Life Leadership to enhance

collaboration between Hispanic leaders and our courses. 18. Scouting Adventures. Worldwide Scouting events including leadership and

emergency management. Attendance to World Scout Jamboree 2015 and International Scotland Jamborette 2016 (www.scoutingadventures.org)

19. Educational cartoons in courses. (www.josetoons.com) 20. BAS graduates who have continue to Masters programs or Law programs.

New Global Learning Initiatives Based on our previous initiatives and new global experiences, new Global Learning Initiatives are being planned for upcoming academic year.

1. Global Learning Series. New guest speakers to our courses and expansion to monthly presentations by local and global leaders. Potential guests include TEDx local speakers, corporate and government leaders.

2. FSCJ Professors / Graduates / Speakers. Invitation to other FSCJ professors, graduates and guests to share their international experiences (India, Asia, National Parks in RV, etc). Attending classes or via Skype.

3. GlobalLearning2016. New videos about recent trips including visits to nuclear bunker, Berlin Wall, concentration camp, Cold War, European businesses, Brexit, and universities, etc.

4. GLOBE. Global Learning Opportunities: Bridges & Engagement. An educational model to facilitate global collaboration and creative learning methods inside and outside the classroom.

GLOBE. Global Learning Opportunities: Bridges & Engagement. GLOBE is an educational model to facilitate global collaboration and creative learning methods inside and outside the classroom. The objective is to:

1. Find Global Learning Opportunities that are useful to our courses or programs. 2. Build Bridges by connecting speakers, presenters, facilitators or influencers with

courses or FSCJ programs, and 3. Produce Engagement by creating active and continuous collaboration.

In order to implement GLOBE it is necessary that professors, graduates, or interested students follow these steps:

1. identify their personal interests by doing an update personal SWOT analysis. Once identified personal Strengths, personal potential Opportunities will show up.

2. Search for innovative educational models (i.e. Finland educational method) and creative content in specific areas of knowledge (i.e. Cold War impact in democracies and global business, Impact of Brexit in the US, museums, etc.). These are the Global Learning Opportunities to find.

3. Use emerging technologies to find new content and connections (Google Scholar, Google Earth, Mobile Apps). Start building Bridges.

4. Find real players to build Bridges of knowledge (local speakers, international speakers via Skype)

5. Match cases, speakers and content with current learning objectives of specific courses. (Be outside the textbook, classroom). More Bridges.

6. Create active collaboration by inviting guests to classes, show new videos, cases, and real examples of current decision makers, leaders, innovators, and problem solvers (i.e. similar to Writers Series, Bosnia list, Socrates Café, TEDx etc. Create continuous Engagement as part of our courses.

GLOBE is a simple model that looks for creative and new content. It also allows professors to create new content and to collaborate with other professors in other areas of knowledge. For example, attending a Bosnia List presentation about a book and history helped in the search for Bosnia & Herzegovina recovery and international help

after the war. Our trip to Mostar, a city divided by religions and destroyed in many wars was important to put all the pieces together. GLOBE motivates professors and students to be on the top of Bloom’s taxonomy pyramid by promoting critical thinking, collaboration, evaluation and analysis of cases, and bring creativity and innovation to a new level of lifelong learning. Learning is not about grades and courses, learning is about using new knowledge to have a better world. Be a Global Learner! Examples of FSCJ BAS in Supervision and Management graduates.

Deutsche Bank Global Markets. FSCJ BAS graduate 2010. East Arlington Rotary Club. President Squirrel Master Studios LLC. Top O’ the Rock Toastmasters

MBAUniversityofNorthFlorida.FSCJBASgraduate2010.USCoastGuardAuxiliary’sFlotillaCommanderandstaffofficer.Publiceducationandmembertraining.

Examples of students’ creative collaboration, outdoors classrooms, and global and local learning initiatives. Outdoors Classrooms

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Guest Speakers

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Global and local learning initiatives

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July 11, 2016