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A joint project: FCA and SLSS

Enhancing teaching and learning practices in the Commerce Faculty to foster cross-cultural understanding among local and international students. A joint project by FCA and SLSS, supported by the Learning and Teaching Development Fund 2011.

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A joint project: FCA and SLSS

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  1. Building cross-cultural understanding among local and international students through enhanced teaching and learning practices in the Commerce Faculty A joint project: FCA and SLSS

  2. The team Vicky Mabin (FCA) Karen Commons (SLSS) John Brocklesby (FCA) Val Lindsay (FCA) Simon Park (FCA) David Crick (FCA) Adrienne McGovern-Wilson (FCA) Xiaodan Gao (SLSS) Jan Stewart (SLSS) • Supported by Learning and Teaching Development Fund 2011

  3. Purpose of the project • To produce students who can function effectively as leaders in a global community.

  4. Purpose of today • To build support for this initiative among FCA staff and associated staff on campus • To gain enough material/ideas for an action plan to fulfill our project purpose

  5. Your role • To brainstorm with us • To contribute ideas

  6. Format of the day • Presentation from Shanton Chang, Melbourne University • Presentation of FCA student and staff perspectives on this issue • Discussion of what we can do and how we’ll do it

  7. Introduce Shanton and his expertise in relation to our project • A case study of something that’s working in Australia

  8. Where are we at in FCA at Victoria? • Curriculum mapping • Graduate destinations survey • Student and staff surveys

  9. What do student and staff survey results tell us?

  10. What does a student management assignment tell us?

  11. What initiatives have we tried so far? • GEE running successfully several years • International experience in courses • Cross-cultural communications in courses • ExcelL programme training – 6 from FCA in 2010 • Interventions in INFO 101, MARK 101, IBUS 201, IBUS 306 • Survey staff/students • Vic OE study

  12. In order to develop students’ international experience We need to develop an action plan that: • Builds staff acceptance • Builds student acceptance • Is doable/achievable • Meshes with our values Starting this July! Resources from SLSS

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