Global Education Micro Credential Podcasts

Welcome to the Global Education Micro Credential project, a collection of three online modules for teachers seeking opportunities to explore and expand their knowledge and skills as global educators.

Upon completion of their education, today’s students must be prepared to live, work, and successfully navigate a world that is more interconnected than ever before. Students not only need  a strong foundation in core academic subjects, but also need to acquire the knowledge, skills, and points of view necessary to interact successfully across a variety of cultural groups as well as grapple with issues and problems whose causes and foundation are more complex than ever before. As they enter college and careers, today’s students need to be prepared to take on issues and challenges that increasingly cross local, national, and international boundaries and whose solutions require new approaches to problem solving.

This set of modules provides teachers an opportunity to explore an area of global education and work on a project that supports the development of global skills in their students. Each module is structured to allow teachers an opportunity engage in inquiry around a global education topic: globally-focused project based learning, data and global education, and educating newcomers.  The module opens with a podcast that explores key issues around the topic through interviews and discussions with experts and key stakeholders. Resource lists and links provide information needed to conduct an inquiry into the topic and prepare to complete a project artifact around an issue related to the module theme.

The project website can be found by visiting: http://gravesle.msu.domains/GlobalEd