Global Honors College

Partner(s): Kevin Griffin Global Honors College Access: Columbia only Released: June 2010 VIEW PROJECT

Global Honors College, an inter-institutional program organized by Waseda University (Tokyo), convenes faculty and undergraduate students from leading universities worldwide to conduct joint, structured, and sustained investigations of enduring and emerging global issues.

The Global Honors College selected highly-motivated undergraduate students from nine universities--including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Peking, Korea, and Waseda, and others--to participate in the Global Seminar, an annual, summer-long intensive course in which participants collaboratively research, debate, and document a specific topic. The seminar began with a two-month online learning phase followed by an "onsite" phase in Tokyo in which students and faculty met for a rigorous three-week period.

CCNMTL helped design, develop, and implement the 2010 and 2011 Global Seminars; the 2010 Global Seminar focused on the subject of "sustainability;" the theme for the 2011 seminar was Food and Agriculture. (The face-to-face component held in Singapore because of the Japan earthquake.)

Faculty and student used a variety of tools including the GoingOn course platform that emphasizes social media interactions among students and instructors. Additionally, faculty enhanced course presentations using VoiceThread and Adobe Connect to interact with the students.

The GHC is a joint effort of Columbia and Waseda Universities, with funding provided by the CU Provost's Office and Waseda University.

The Global Honors College is a Online Learning Initiative project.

Related project categories:
Custom Software Applications and Tools | Global and Distance Learning | Online & Directed Learning | Sciences | Social Sciences