Global Learning Initiative

CCNMTL's Global Learning Initiative begins with Columbia’s commitment to a new level of global engagement and marries it to the power of network technology, creating new opportunities for collaborations that enrich the university's educational programs.

News

Press Release: CCNMTL Partners with Earth Institute on New Master's Degree
October 23, 2008. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded The Earth Institute at Columbia University a $3.275 million grant to create a master’s program that will educate future generations of international development practitioners responsible for addressing...
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New Global Classroom On Sustainable Development
January 29, 2008. The Earth Institute's Commission on Education for International Development Professionals and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) launch the Global Classroom: Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Practice. An experiment in distributed learning, the...
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Our Partners

Jeffrey Sachs “The Global Classroom provides the opportunity for expert lecturers and diverse bodies of students to hold a real-time worldwide discussion on the world's foremost problems of sustainable development so that together they, and we, can brainstorm on solutions. The idea...
- Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management

Current Projects

Global Classroom
Global Classroom_thumbnail The Global Classroom project organizes and delivers lectures and readings for a master's level, sustainable development course simultaneously taught at a dozen universities around the world during spring 2008. Conceived as a new distributed learning curriculum by a sub-committee of the Commission on Education for International Development Professionals, the course...

MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative
The MAC AIDS Leadership Initiative trains fellows from South Africa in HIV/AIDS prevention at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University. The initiative is a 12-month training program designed to cultivate new leaders in HIV/AIDS prevention who will...

HIV Intervention Science Training Commons
CCNMTL partnered with Drs. Nabila El-Bassel and Elwin Wu of the Columbia University School of Social Work to develop this Web-based environment designed to help the HIV Intervention Science Training Program meet its program and research objectives of recruiting and training minority researchers in the fields of HIV/AIDS, health disparities,...