Description
The American College of Management and Technology was established in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 1995 as a two-year program in hotel and travel leading to the AAS degree. The Croatian government wanted to develop their long coastline and historical cities to attract Western tourists, and sought an American University to educate the Croatians. A BS program was first offered in 1997. The cultural and physical challenges of teaching students in their home country are described, with emphasis on the challenges of teaching students for whom a culture of ‘helping” each other is the normal pattern. The challenge is to create and encourage situations where helping is a positive (as on projects) and not a negative (as on exams). Classes are large (four sections of 40 – 50 students each), classrooms are small, and facilities are limited or shared with another school. In addition, since many RIT faculty teach their classes partially or completely on line, methods of encouraging communication and learning are described.
Date of creation, presentation, or exhibit
2004
Document Type
Presentation
Department, Program, or Center
Department of Service Systems (CAST)
Recommended Citation
Bissell, S., Cerio-Iocco, B., Crumb, D., Lagiewski, R., Steffens, E., Whitlock, C. (2004). Teaching international students in their home country: Challenges and approaches [PowerPoint Slides]. Presented at the Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning (FITL), Rochester, NY.
Campus
American College of Management and Technology in Croatia
Comments
These are slides for a presentation at the Annual Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning (FITL), Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, May 26, 2004.
Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works in February 2014.