International Lecture Exchange Program

Exciting opportunity for international experience in your classroom!

Would you like to share your expertise with a class of students and faculty in your area in another country? How about a one hour guest lecture to them virtually, where you can see and hear them? Would you like to have a faculty with similar interests as yours from another country to come and guest lecture for one hour in one of your regular classes? If you are interested, we can help make this happen here at ECU, so there is not extra time, extra cost, or any risk involved. Through this virtual technology you can find out what it is like to be lecturing to international students, and, what it is like to have an international partner faculty lecture to your class. How would your students react to it?

To launch ECU’s International Lecture Exchange Program, we will provide the opportunity for this to happen. The lectures will be held in a VIRTUAL environment where you can see and hear a class of students from the other country, and vice versa. We will provide the equipment and the tech support needed for this lecture exchange. We can also help you find a partner in any one of our virtual partner institutions.

What needs to be done to make this happen?

You provide us with three topics from one of the courses you teach that you think might be of interest to international students in your discipline. We will find you a partner faculty who will then invite you to guest lecture for an hour in their regular class period. You can bring a Power Point, slides, or just lecture. Once we get the exact date and time from the partner country, we will arrange to have the equipment set up and there will be a tech support person who will set up the class beforehand and be with you throughout the class to help adjust the lighting, do the Power Point, or be of help to you in any technical manner. All you need to do is to concentrate on teaching your class!

In return, we will ask the faculty in the other country to provide you with a list of two or three topics, and you can choose one that is of interest to you and your students. Then we will invite your partner faculty to lecture in one of your regular class sessions. Again, all technical support will be provided, your class will see and hear the other professor and ask questions and offer their ideas.

What technology will be used?

ECU has been a pioneer in online distance education and continues to be a leader in this area, therefore we have all kinds of state of the art equipments. However, many of our partners are from under developed countries, we are using the regular internet, so if they have email and 128K upload and download connectivity, we are in business! The video conference is via H.323 standards. We can also use SKYPE. All of our partners have this equipment, therefore they also have the needed resources, the tech support, and can work with us easily.

Interested?

For further explanation or questions, please contact:

Rosina Chia
chiaro@ecu.edu