2024-2025 AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar Series

This series of seven 90-minute webinars offers professional development in the facilitation and assessment of one facet from the AAC&U Global Learning (GL) VALUE Rubric and/or the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence (ICKC) VALUE Rubric during each webinar. The series begins in early August 2024 and ends in mid-June 2025. Facilitators include educators from Purdue University’s Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR) and our invited guests from the University of Notre Dame, Florida International University, Indiana University Indianapolis, Allegheny College, Culture Beyond Borders, Concordia University, Purdue University, and the Forum on Education Abroad.

Although the AAC&U VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) rubrics were written for use in a higher education undergraduate context, we know that you'll find the information presented to be practical for use by anyone involved in helping others to increase their intercultural competence.

Please join us!

The tentative schedule is here. Follow us at facebook.com/purduecilmar or linkedin.com/company/cilmar for updates.

The cost is 25 USD/workshop, payable at the "REGISTER NOW" button below.

Investigating the Attitude of Intercultural Openness (ICKC)

August 7, 2024, 12:00pm-1:30pm EDT
Facilitators: Kris Acheson-Clair, CILMAR; Horane A. Diatta-Holgate, University of Notre Dame

Intercultural Openness is one of the requisite attitudes individuals should develop in order to engage in effective and appropriate communication across various cultural contexts and situations (Deardorff, 2006, 2009). In this opening session of the 2024-2025 AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar Series we will discuss Intercultural Openness as defined on the AAC&U VALUE rubric for Intercultural Knowledge and Competence as well as explore experiential activities and different ways to assess individual's development of this construct.

As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to:

describe intercultural openness and its relevance in their particular teaching or training context.
identify a specific experiential learning activity they can use or adapt in order facilitate their learners' developing intercultural openness.
select an appropriate method or tool for assessing intercultural openness in a way that aligns with their outcomes for learners.

The AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric is here.

A collection of materials featured in the webinar are here.

Delving into Cultural Diversity (GL)

Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 12:00pm-1:30pm EDT
Facilitators: Alankrita Chhikara, CILMAR; Hilary Landorf, Florida International University

As learners grow in their understanding of cultural diversity, they move from being able to describe the experiences of others historically or in contemporary contexts primarily through one cultural perspective to being able to adapt and apply a deep understanding of multiple worldviews, experiences and power structures while initiating meaningful interactions with other cultures to address significant global problems.

In this second webinar of the series, we explore cultural diversity as defined by the AAC&U Global Learning VALUE Rubric—the curiosity to learn respectfully about the cultural diversity of other people and on an individual level to traverse cultural boundaries to bridge differences and collaboratively reach common goals.

Participants will be engaging in a variety of hands-on activities including a case study, visual thinking prompt and exposure to a cultural mapping tool.

Participants of this webinar will be able to:

define cultural diversity for global learning.
understand theoretical frameworks underlying cultural diversity.
engage in activities that enhance learners’ cultural diversity.
identify various methods and tools for assessing cultural diversity.

The AAC&U Global Learning VALUE Rubric is here.

A collection of materials featured in the webinar are here.

Exploring the Knowledge of Worldview Frameworks (ICKC)

November 6, 2024, 12:00pm-1:30pm EST
Facilitators: Aletha Stahl, CILMAR; Leslie Bozeman, Indiana University Indianapolis

Knowledge of cultural worldview frameworks goes beyond the accumulation of facts about a cultural group's history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, beliefs, etc. It entails an understanding of the complexity of how these elements are important to members of a cultural group and inform their meaning-making.

In this third webinar of the AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar Series, we explore ways to engage learners in conversation about the concepts included in cultural worldview frameworks as defined by the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE rubric.

As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

describe knowledge of cultural worldview frameworks and its relevance in your particular educational context
identify an experiential learning activity you can use or adapt with learners to facilitate development of knowledge of cultural worldview frameworks
select a method or tool for assessing knowledge of cultural worldview frameworks that aligns with your learning outcomes

Examining the Knowledge of Intercultural and Global Self-Awareness (ICKC & GL)

February 7, 2025, 12:00pm-1:30pm EST
Facilitators: Aparajita Jaiswal, CILMAR; Caryl Waggett, Allegheny College

According to the ICKC rubric, learners who are starting their intercultural journey show minimal awareness of their own cultural rules and biases (even those shared with their own cultural groups); as they become more self-aware, learners can articulate insights into their own cultural rules and biases, seeking complexity and being aware of how their experiences have shaped these rules. The GL rubric defines growth in self-awareness as movement from connecting personal decision-making and certain local and global issues to learning to effectively address significant issues in the natural and human world based on articulating one's identity in a global context.

For more, please investigate the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric here and the Global Learning VALUE Rubric here.

Digging into the Skill of Intercultural Empathy (ICKC) and Global Perspective Taking (GL)

March 26 2025, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Facilitators: Tatjana Babic Williams, CILMAR; Kwesi Ewoodzie, Culture Beyond Borders, LLC

Intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking are complex skills at the heart of our ability to communicate, interact, and bridge across cultural differences. Learners who have matured in these skills can interpret intercultural experience from more than one worldview. They can act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group, as well as evaluate complex situations by applying diverse perspectives within natural and human systems in the face of multiple and even conflicting positions.

In the fifth webinar of the series, we invite you to delve into the complexities of intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking as defined by the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence and Global Learning VALUE Rubrics. As a result of participating in this session, you will be able to:

describe intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking and the relevance of these skills in your professional and personal contexts.
identify a specific experiential learning activity you can use or adapt in order to facilitate developing learners’ intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking.
select an appropriate method or tool for assessing intercultural empathy and global perspective-taking that aligns with your learning outcomes.

For more, please investigate the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric here and the Global Learning VALUE Rubric here.

Checking in the Skill of Intercultural Communication (ICKC)

Mid-May 2025
Facilitators: Kelsey Patton, CILMAR; Basma Ibrahim DeVries, Concordia University

Learners who are more interculturally competent can articulate a complex understanding of cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication and are able to skillfully negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.

For more, please investigate the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric here.

Inquiring into Personal and Social Responsibility (GL))

Mid-June 2025, 12:00pm-1:30pm EDT
Facilitators: H. Parker, College of Engineering, Purdue University; Mary F. Price, The Forum on Education Abroad

Learners who have matured in this aspect of global learning take informed and responsible action to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges in global systems and evalute the local and broader consequences of individual and collective interventions.

For more, please investigate the Global Learning VALUE Rubric here.