In June, Wallenberg Hall played host to the Program in Writing and Rhetoric's PWR global symposium on cross-cultural collaboration. The course and the symposium were supported by a grant from the Wallenberg Global Learning Network WGLN.
The symposium participants connected with each other using the Marratech collaboration system that Wallenberg Hall hosts. The session began with brief presentations from both Stanford and Sweden and then moved into smaller breakout groups - each globally distributed and connected in smaller Marratech 'rooms' to generate ideas about future directions in globally collaborative student work. Participants then regrouped into one large 'room' to share their experiences from the smaller groups.
In Spring 2007, Wallenberg Hall also hosted globally collaborative courses from the schools of medicine and engineering. The team at Wallenberg Hall is excited to support pedagogies and technologies that advance our understanding of the learning benefits, technologies, and cross-cultural issues associated with globally-collaborative courses.
For more information, please contact Dan Gilbert.
