The Academe Group http://www.academegroup.org Leading Higher Education Into The 21st Century Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:02:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Partners in Dialogue: Creating Meaningful Learning Environments http://www.academegroup.org/2012/12/10/partners-in-dialogue-creating-meaningful-learning-environments/ http://www.academegroup.org/2012/12/10/partners-in-dialogue-creating-meaningful-learning-environments/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:38:38 +0000 Patrick Blessinger http://www.academegroup.org/?p=175 Partners in Dialogue: Creating Meaningful Learning Environments

Olga Kovbasyuk and Patrick Blessinger

During the spring semester of 2012, we conducted an online course entitled “Coming of Age on Screen”. The aim of the course was to foster US-Russian dialogues from the perspective of meaning-centered learning and thereby improve intercultural communication competencies. We would like to share our pedagogical experiences from that course.

This course brought together 50 students from the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law in Russia and Mount Holyoke and Brandeis Universities in the USA.  The students and faculty discussed films while practicing Russian and English communication skills. The classes used videoconference technologies, Skype and Facebook to interact with each other, synchronously and asynchronously.

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