Place-based Learning
Culture, location, community, and heritage are the foundations of a learner. Place-based learning allows learners to draw deeper connections to materials, ways of knowing, and the culture of a specific location. For example, place-based learning involves incorporating local stories into English lessons, solving real-time community concerns in social studies courses, and exploring geographical landmarks through experiential programs in photography and art.
Learner-centered
Placing an individual at the center of their education allows for a greater sense of agency, and the inspiration to pursue lifelong learning. A learner-centered approach puts individuals in the driver’s seat of a project. Learners and teachers engage about expectations. Conversations are valued over passive lectures. Learners create their own pathways toward completion.
Blended Learning
Engaging with place-based forms of knowledge doesn’t always require traveling. Blended learning combines the virtual and in-person worlds of education. Growing in importance with the rise of digital technologies, the ability to create learning environments that respect human-centered experiences, regardless of modality, from anywhere in the world, is a key tenet to blended learning. In courses that use this approach, in-person moments become powerful reflective and collaborative spaces that build upon the discussions, findings, and materials.
GlobalX adapts to provide course options and styles to meet a learner’s lifestyle and needs. Experiences offered through GlobalX include credit-bearing, co-curricular, and professional courses, summer school courses and programs, micro-courses, studios, certificate-based courses, community-based learning workshops, internships, and more.
