Welcome to Absolutely Intercultural show number 292 on World Futures Day. My name’s Anne Fox and this show is coming to you from Denmark, but when you’re online, does it matter where I am? In this show we’ll be looking at some of the issues that can happen in online courses. Yes, believe it or not, online learning existed long before the Covid 19 pandemic and for this show I decided to ask some of my colleagues at NILE in Norwich about some of the things that can happen when you are teaching online.
We’ll hear from Robert about a joke gone wrong, from Eva about how to organise a mixed gender group so that the genders are never mixed and what happened in Neil’s Zoom session that so upset the rest of the group?
absolutely separate
So let’s start with Eva and go absolutely separate about how to organise a mixed gender group so that the genders are never mixed.
absolutely funny
In our next segment we’ll be talking to Robert about something that he experienced when he was facilitating a very diverse group from around the world. Is it absolutely funny?
absolutely real
And in our final segment, we’ll meet Neil who lives in Spain and works for NILE teaching aviation English where we’ll learn how online learning can be absolutely real. But first the dilemma of adjusting meetings to meet other cultural norms.
Neil’s story about his student in Kiev reminds me that this week on several TV stations simultaneously, a new series called “In her Car” tells the story of a Ukrainian woman who volunteers to drive people in Ukraine during the current conflict.
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The next show will be coming to you from Germany with Laurent Borgmann on the 5th of April.
Until then – stay tuned!
The host of this show is: Anne Fox
“I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the Absolutely Intercultural podcast episode on online learning with NILE. The emphasis on leveraging technology to facilitate intercultural exchange and collaboration is timely and relevant. It’s heartening to see educators embracing virtual platforms as opportunities to enhance global competence among students.”