Maximizing the Study Abroad Experience

Join us in this GlobalEd Lab as we look at recent books, theories, and tools designed for students to maximize their study abroad experience. We'll look at classic resources like Maximizing Study Abroad (By R. Michael Paige, Andrew D. Cohen, Barbara Kappler Mikk, Julie C. Chi, & James P. Lassegard) as well as new thinking, books, and tools in the field. We'll also examine what it means to "maximize" the study abroad experience in the pandemic/post-pandemic era, and the cultural and social capital associated with studying abroad.

Featured Speaker:

Rich Kurtzman, author of Like a Fish in Water: How to Grow Abroad When You Go Abroad, will speak at our December 1 kick-off event.

This virtual lab is geared for all participants, including students, parents, and other participants in study abroad.

We'll be forming partnerships, projects, and implementation plans around key questions on maximizing study abroad experiences and communicating their unique value.

GlobalEd Labs are new virtual spaces for collaborative design and problem solving in global and international education. Our Labs will bring together faculty leaders, experts, community members, researchers, and practitioners in a human-centered design format to tackle approaches to experiential learning, diversity, inclusion, community engagement, and research. Imagine a lab where community leaders and study abroad participants work together to design programs and brainstorm solutions to the world's most pressing problems. Now, imagine the same lab: faculty members from different institutions craft a research agenda around these problems and their own faculty-led study abroad experiences. GlobalEd Labs connect people and ideas together in a four stage process: Inquiry, Intercultural Design, Framing/Stakeholder Engagement, and Implementation.

Labs are a mixture of asynchronous problem-solving, synchronous community design meetings, individual and group consultations, and research collaboration. Join a lab today -- all who are interested in the topic are encouraged to participate and collaborate!

Joining a lab includes a one-time fee of $25 (50% off for GlobalEd basic account subscribers) which helps sustain the lab and includes all associated lab events, consultations, and resources. When you purchase your ticket for the kick-off event, it includes all forthcoming lab events.