Educating Globally Competent Citizens:

A Demonstration of a Toolkit for Liberal Education

Denny Falk—April 30, 2010

Background on “Seven Revolutions” project

Introduction to Toolkit at: http://gsi.csis.org/toolkit

Background on relevant aspects of new UMD liberal education program

Learning outcomes: http://www.d.umn.edu/vcaa/assessment/LE.html

Overview of Educating Globally Competent Citizens: A Toolkit for Teaching Seven Revolutions (all components can be accessed at: http://gsi.csis.org/toolkit

• Seven revolutions content (direct links and Student Guide)
• Case studies of AASCU partner institutions
• Teaching materials (e.g., syllabi, activities, assignments)
• Teaching resources (e.g., print, video, audio, Internet)

Sample teaching materials (available at at: http://gsi.csis.org/toolkit )

• Futurist perspective
• Global Village activity
• Taking Action assignment

Sample teaching resources

• Ted Talks (e.g., Alicia Miller, Hans Rosling): http://www.ted.com/
• Worldmapper: http://www.worldmapper.org/
• Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/
• New York Times (global edition): http://global.nytimes.com/
• Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://csis.org/
• iTunesU (audio and video materials from Oxford, MIT, Stanford, Yale, etc)
• Better World Shopper: http://www.betterworldshopper.com/idea.html

Other relevant resources

• Sample “Seven Revolutions” course (on Epsilen course management system): available at http://www.epsilen.com/ or email Denny at dfalk@d.umn.edu for an invitation
• Diigo (searchable online repository of relevant Internet-based resources); available at http://www.diigo.com/ or on “Toolkit” page

Facebook “7-Revolutions: Creating Globally Competent Citizens” group (regularly updated listing of relevant resources; sign on to Facebook and search “7-Rev”)

Application to new liberal education program

change model of teaching from expert presenter (“sage on the stage”) to facilitating learning with instructor organizing a meaningful and relevant set of learning activities that will achieve identified outcomes

Key questions