Internationalizing the Curriculum RU Cooperative Projects with China Using Distance Education Techno

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Internationalizing the CurriculumRU Cooperative
Projects with China Using Distance Education
TechnologiesDr. Joe DerrickDepartment of
Information Technologyejderrick_at_radford.eduNOTE
Nearly all text and notes are directly quoted
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assembled these nuggets into one file.
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Overview

• The Case for Internationalizing the Curriculum
• Why Chinese Language and Culture?
• RU-China Initiatives
• Conclusions

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The Case for Internationalizing the Curriculum

• or, in other words Why Should RU
  Students Learn Another Language and Culture?
• Example Fat Cat, Skinny Cat 1

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Reference Modern Languages Association 2
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Modern Languages Association 2

• Improved skills and grades in math and English
• Improved entrance exam scores (SATs, ACTs, GREs,
  MCATs, and LSATs)
• Improved chances for success in school, career
• Job advantage in a global economy
• Insiders view of another culture a new view of
  own
• Learning new sounds, expressions, and ways of
  seeing
• Learning how to act in another culture, how to
  know a new community from the inside

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• Duke University 3

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Duke University 3

• Personal Growth
• Challenges who you are.
• Makes you examine your very identity.
• Involves you in a process of change that can only
  happen through encounter with the unfamiliar
  what growth is all about.

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Duke University 3

• Global Understanding
• Can help you contribute to making the world a
  better place.
• Knowledge of other languages and cultures is and
  will be an absolute necessity
• For economic and political survival
• For international cooperation in dealing with the
  many problems facing the world today.
• We need to be able to understand global events
  and interactions from perspectives other than our
  own.

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Duke University 3

• Professional Success
• will give you the edge on the job market, in
  career advancement, and knowledge of your
  discipline
• More and more employers that work both in and
  outside of the U.S. are seeking employees with
  foreign language skills and international
  experience for higher level positions.
• The so-called "soft skills are becoming just as
  important as "hard" technical or professional
  knowledge.

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More on Professional Success Increasing Ones
Marketability 4

• Being bilingual, or better yet multilingual,
  broadens your career and international business
  options and expands your network
• Speaking more than one language could help you
  turn contacts into contracts.
• Since 9-11, the issue of being multilingual and
  proficient in other languages has gained
  visibility and focus.
• Emphasis is on defense work and business as well
  as international diplomacy Also important in
  areas like commerce, service positions, and to
  preserve family and community

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Monster.com 5

• Ten In-Demand Job Skills
• Foreign Language
• America depends upon many nations for raw
  materials and goods, as well as for global
  markets for our own goods and services. The
  ability to speak a foreign language -- today's
  hot ones include Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and
  German -- can enhance your employment
  opportunities and compensation.

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Spectator Online, Seattle University 6

• Knowing a second language helps one learn the
  related culture, the way people think, the way
  people act, and the ways of life of  a given
  people
• Increases cultural sensitivity and allows you to
  understand concepts not included in English.
• Realize that people see things differently and
  think about things differently than we do that
  people in another culture value different things.
  
• Expands not just your ability to express things,
  but your ability to think things to see things
  that you might not otherwise see.

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Kansas City Star 7

• How Americans are perceived overseas
• Well-known for inability to speak any languages
  other than English
• Equally well-known for their discomfort around
  others speaking languages they dont understand
• Americans insist immigrants learn English but
  fail to understand the difficulty in that,
  because few have ever tried to master a foreign
  language
• Very provincial, close-minded, narrow in views
• A certain sense of conceit e.g., the American
  way is the only way, the best way

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Why Focus on Chinese Language and Culture?

• Size and Influence
• Economy
• Market
• Trends
• Worlds most important languages

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Chinas Size and Influence 8

• China is one of the biggest countries in the
  world, the third largest country in the world
  (after Canada and Russia).
• Area is about 9.6 million square kilometers about
  6.5 per cent of the world total land area
• A population of more than one billion accounts
  for 23 per cent of the world's population.
• China is the world's oldest continuous
  civilization with seven major Chinese dialects
  and many sub-dialects.
• The predominant dialect is Mandarin, the official
  language of government.

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Chinas Economy 8

• With gross domestic product (GDP) growing at an
  annual rate of 6 per cent, China has the second
  largest Gross Domestic Product
• Such an economy stands to offer exciting business
  and capital market opportunities to foreigners

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Chinas Market 8

• China is a rapidly rising global economic power
• Overall growth has averaged a robust 7 to 8 for
  more than a decade, with some markets expanding
  much more rapidly.
• China's auto market exploded in 2003, passenger
  car sales jumping 82 year-over-year.
• China is the world's largest telecommunications
  market with some 280 million mobile subscribers
  and 270 million wireline subscribers.
• Chinese household appliance manufacturers are
  experiencing growth in excess of 35 per year.

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2004 Major Trends 9

• 3 out of 4 American companies in China are
  profitable.
• Twice the number of companies plan to expand
  their businesses in China compared to last year
  Many will increase operations in secondary cities
  and beyond.
• China continues an ongoing opening of its market
  to foreign investors, and in 2003, became the
  world's principal destination for foreign
  investment.
• China is now substantially in compliance with its
  World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations.

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2004 Trends in Trade and Investment 9

• China the worlds most important emerging market
  that has rapidly ascended as a world trading
  power on a tide of globalization.
• Since 1998, its GDP has risen by 50 percent as it
  has successfully enmeshed itself in complex
  global supply chains.
• Last year, China became the world's fourth
  largest exporter by value and the third largest
  importer.

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2004 Foreign Investment 9

• AmCham-China memberships
• 31 indicate China is their number 1 priority for
  global investment
• 49 report that China is in their top 3 global
  investment priorities

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Zhou WenzhongChinese ambassador to the US 10

• In 2004, bilateral trade volume was nearly US170
  billion
• The U.S. invested in over 45,000 projects in
  China, with paidup investment exceeding US48
  billion
• One million visits are exchanged every year by
  officials, businessmen and students of our two
  countries. That is about 3,000 people flying over
  the Pacific every day.

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American Economic Alert 11

• Ian Davis, the worldwide managing director of the
  consulting firm McKinsey Company, is quoted as
  saying that for Fortune 500 executives, China is
  absolutely center stage right now.
• China is experiencing the greatest industrial
  revolution in world history in terms of scale and
  speed. 

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China-Window.com 12

• China's GDP growth rate in the past twenty-three
  years is 2.5 times more than in North America and
  Europe.
• If the leading increase rate keeps going, China
  will undoubtedly grow into a strong economic
  power in the next fifty years.
• Multinational companies must attach sufficient
  importance to the promising purchasing power on
  the Chinese market.
• China has already become one of the focuses for
  the multinationals in all business lines in
  rearranging their international economic setup in
  the 21st century many large multinational
  enterprises have moved their head offices to
  China .

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Worlds Most Important Languages 13

• These are the most widely spoken languages in the
  world with economic power
• Chinese Dutch English French German Hindi Italian
  Japanese Portuguese Russian Spanish
• The most widely spoken language in the world is
  Chinese, with more than twice as many speakers as
  any of the next most widely spoken languages
  English Hindi Spanish
• Half the population of the world speaks one of
  the following five languages Arabic Chinese
  English Hindi Spanish

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American Views on International Education Issues
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National Public Radio Morning Edition 15

• Chinese Classes Grow in Popularity with U.S.
  Students

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RU-China Initiatives Using Distance Education
Technologies

• The Process of Building a Relationship
• November 2003 (McGlothlin Foundation Grant)
• January 2004 Chinese New Year presentation
• May 2004 Kirk Scholars (RJ Kirk)
• Summer 2004 (Internationalizing Curriculum Grant)
• Spring 2005 (CIST One-time monies Grant)
• March 2005 Chinese Delegation visit and MOU
  signing (RJ Kirk)

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Memorandum of Understanding

• Subject to the availability of resources and the
  approval of both parties the following
  cooperative ventures will be considered
• The exchange of faculty.
• Study abroad opportunities for students.
• Collaborative research.
• Access to and use of academic facilities.
• Distance education and training initiatives
• Collaborative staff and staff development
  programs.

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Current Projects

• Support for Kirk Scholars Program
• Communications between students and teachers
• Distance Education Projects
• Accounting Information Systems
• Chinese Calligraphy
• (Supporting Hardware and Software)

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Project Team

• Dr. Dennie Templeton
• RU Director of Distance Ed
• Dr. Helen Roybark
• RU Department of Accounting
• Ms. I-Ping Fu
• RU Department of Foreign Languages

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Conclusions

• Raise awareness
• Change attitudes
• Position RU Students for the future

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Summary

• The Case for Internationalizing the Curriculum
• Why Chinese Language and Culture?
• RU-China Initiatives
• Conclusions

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References

• 1 Gregorio Billikopf Encina, Learning another
  language, University of California,
  http//www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7artic
  le/article17.htm
• 2 Modern Languages Association, Knowing Other
  Languages Brings Opportunities, brochure,
  http//www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/wlc/letter.p
  df
• Modern Languages Association, Language
  Study in the Age of Globalization,
• http//www.mla.org/pdf/adfl_brochcollege.p
  df
• 3 Duke University, http//languages.duke.edu/suc
  cess.html
• 4 Kimberly J. Hamilton-Wright , Learn Another
  Language to Help Increase Your Marketability,
  Black Enterprise Magazine, http//bv.channel.aol.c
  om/workmonmain/careers/market01212004
• 5 James Gonyea, Ten In-Demand Job Skills,
  Monster.com, http//change.monster.com/articles/sk
  ills/
• 6 Bonnie Hsueh, Professors highlight the
  benefits of knowing a second language,
  Spectator Online, Seattle University,
  http//www.spectator-online.com/vnews/display.v/AR
  T/2005/03/04/4228bf41d646b
• 7 Mary Sanchez, No joke, Americans fear
  learning another language, Kansas City Star,
  http//www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/edi
  torial/10484125.htm
• 8 China-Window.com, http//www.china-window.com

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References (continued)

• 9 American Chamber of Commerce - China, 2004
  White Papers, http//www.amcham-china.org.cn/amcha
  m/home/index.php
• 10 AmCham-China, Maintaining momentum ,
  http//www.amcham-china.org.cn/amcham/upload/wysiw
  yg/20050318170055.pdf
• 11 William R. Hawkins, China -- Not America --
  Is 'Center Stage' for the Fortune 500, American
  Economic Alert, http//www.americaneconomicalert.o
  rg/view_art.asp?Prod_ID1187
• 12 China-Window.com, Multinational Companies
  Adjust Strategies to China, http//www.china-win
  dow.com/china_market/china_industry_reports/multin
  ational-companies-a.shtml
• 13 Goethe Institute USA, Worlds Most Important
  Languages, http//www.goethe.de/mmo/priv/234786-ST
  ANDARD.pdf
• 14 Goethe Institute USA, American Views on
  International Education, http//www.goethe.de/ins/
  us/prj/pdt/why/ben/enindex.htm
• Note See bottom of above web page for a
  series of outstanding articles on
  rationale/benefits of studying languages and
  cultures
• 15 Tara Siler, Chinese Classes Grow in
  Popularity with U.S. Students,
• http//www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
  yId4628444

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This concludes the presentation

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