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“In the global classroom, two or more instructors will use technology platforms to deliver lectures for the students in both locations. And the students will work together as international teams to complete project work, jointly conduct research, or develop case studies informed by their unique experiences and perspectives.”
On CBC’s reality TV show Dragon’s Den, entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas on national television, vying for financial investment from a panel of venture capitalists.
A first year course at the Munk School of Global Affairs is putting a more altruistic spin on the concept, challenging first year students to come up with ambitious ideas for solving global problems.
Models for teaching global citizenship often limit themselves to conceptual analysis and passive methods for global knowledge acquisition. The Munk One Program I direct inverts these by deploying labs as experiential platforms... At the undergraduate level, we embed first year university students in policy research labs actively seeking new approaches in addressing wicked global problems.
Groups of students huddled over game board grids that were covered by what might have been a random assortment of nickels and pennies... The coins represented two ethnic groups and students were examining how segregation could develop and how conflict potentially emerge, in what could be any number of cities across Canada or around the world...
