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The ground of higher education is shifting, but learning ecosystems around the world have much more space than MOOCs and trendy online platforms can fill, and Loewen shows how professors have an indisputable pedagogical edge that gives them a crucial role to play in higher education. By adopting the collaborative pedagogical process in this book, professors can create effective social learning experiences that connect students to peers and professional colleagues in real time.
 
Loewen moves beyond surface questions about technology in the classroom to a problem best addressed by educators in bricks-and-mortar institutions: if students are social learners, how do we teach in a way that promotes actual dialogue for learning? Designing learning experiences that develop intercultural competencies puts the test to students’ social inclinations, and engagement with course material increases when it’s used to dig deeper into the specificities of their identity and social location. Loewen’s approach to interinstitutional collaborative teaching will be explored with examples and working templates for collaborative design of effective social learning experiences. This is done by collaborative dialogue with G. Brooke Lester and Christopher Duncanson-Hales. As a group, Loewen, Lester, and Duncanson-Hales create a text that extends pedagogical innovation in inspiring but practical ways. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Acknowledgments
ch. 1 The Approach (Nathan Loewen)
Extend the Innovation 1.1 (G. Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innovation 1.2 (G. Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innoovation 1.3 (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)
Chapter Response I: How Did We Get to Here? (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response II: Finding Your “Plan B”: Asynchronous and Synchronous Technology (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)

ch. 2 The Collaboration (Nathan Lowen)
Extend the Innovation 2.1 (G. Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innovation 2.2 (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)
Chapter Response I: Facilitating Virtual Community (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response II: Finding the Courage to Teach Dialogically (Christopher J. Ducanson-Hales)

ch. 3 The Foundation (Nathan Lowen)
Extend the Innovation 3.1 (G. Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innovation 3.2 (G Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innovation 3.3 (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)
Chapter Response I: Preparing for a Cross-Cultural Classroom Experience (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response II: Considering Learning Disabilities in Collaborative Learning Environments (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)

ch. 4 The Content (Nathan Loewen)
Extend the Innovation 4.1 (G. Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innovation 4.2 (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response I: Teaching Online: The Bad News, the Worse News, and What to Do about it (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response II: International Experiential Learning (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)

ch. 5 The Plan (Nathan Loewen)
Extend the Innovation 5.1 (G. Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innovation 5.2 (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)
Extend the Innovation 5.3 (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response I: Assign “Fails” to Find Digital Learning Wins (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response II: Minding the Divides (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)

ch. 6 The Details (Nathan Loewen)
Extend the Innovation 6.1 (G. Brooke Lester)
Extend the Innovation 6.2 (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response I: Creating a Community of Practice (G. Brooke Lester)
Chapter Response II: Creating Communities of Scholars (Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales)

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