International Mobility Online Mentoring Program
Seeking to provide a platform for students to connect and learn from each other before, during, and after their international experience, Ontario Tech University developed the International Mobility Online Mentoring Program. The platform was designed through google classroom and volunteer student mentors met with each other to discuss various topics surrounding internationalization and to connect […]
Gestion des risques liés à la mobilité internationale
Seek to improve its practices to protect the health and safety of members by strengthening its strategy to manage the risks associated with international mobility. This project aims to adopt and test approaches to properly prepare students to make the transition to physical mobility and to identify possible options for program improvement.
A 2021 Global Competency Framework for TVET Students
As with many Colleges, semester exchanges abroad are challenging to insert into many of Niagara College’s programs given the shorter duration of a diploma and post-graduate program. Therefore, semester exchanges can be complicated for College level students. Additionally, as many students are working while studying, extensive advance notice to prepare students for their exchange supports […]
Increasing Access to International Experiences at Portage College
The project included a survey of students, faculty, and management at Portage College. This survey was used to measure experience and interest in international travel experiences. It also looked at barriers associated with international travel. A guideline, application form and check sheet were also created as wrap-around documents. Work was completed to create a funder […]
A NU Take on Outbound Mobility: Re-branding Nipissing University’s Exchange Program
The project was driven by the objectives to increase student mobility, particularly with students with disabilities, indigenous students and low-income student and to promote mobility to non-traditional countries. We collected feedback from these demographics of students through a series of surveys. We used their feedback to tailor marketing material and plan recruitment events that addresses […]
Catalysts for Global Engagement: advancing deeper and broader student mobility at Queen’s University
This project seeks to build pathways to generate greater engagement with low-income students, students with disabilities and Indigenous students and increase greater prominence of non-traditional countries. The project focused on research to inform enhanced offerings for student exchange, including wrap-around mobility supports and developing short-term global engagement models with an emphasis on COIL.
Global Citizenship Bootcamp Pilot Program
The NorQuest College Global Citizenship Bootcamp is a 15-hour course designed to enhance intercultural knowledge, sharpen cross-cultural communication skills, and prepare learners to study and work abroad. The course offers a series of workshops and guest speakers that, within the context of diversity, promote global exposure and understanding of systemic barriers which underrepresented populations may […]
RDC Virtual International Experience
Learning is at the heart of RDC and we celebrate that through key values: Community, Excellence, Exploration, Inclusiveness, Integrity, Accountability, which support our most important value, Learning. Our institution understands the benefits of engaging our learners in meaningful intercultural experience to help them build skills required to thrive in an increasingly global society. Through the […]
Global Land-Based Learning: Indigenous Interconnection in Mobility Programming
This project produced a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module co-developed by staff at Humber and Otago Polytechnic for students at both institutions. Through indigenous teachings and group sharing, students explored their layered identities, relationships with land, and worked in teams on a “wicked problem” to build intercultural competence and professional networking skills. The project […]
A Building Block to Global Engagement
Student mobility is encouraged at McMaster as a means for meaningful global engagement, but in many instances, students are not adequately prepared to engage as reflexive global citizens. While the importance of preparing globally mobile students is recognized across campus, efforts to prepare students are fragmented. To engage meaningfully abroad, training in the foundations of […]