Connect people across cultures
Utilize virtual technologies & platforms
Focus on skills development & pedagogy
WDI’s Global Virtual Learning Center (GVLC) advances the practice of global virtual learning to create international linkages and promote economic growth in emerging markets.
The GVLC builds upon WDI’s success as a provider of virtual learning. From virtual exchange programs like M²GATE (which connected 545 undergraduate students from Michigan, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia) to professional training programs for companies like Dell, we use virtual methods to support learners and build their skillsets for the future. We leverage digital technologies to offer virtual exchanges, global entrepreneurship and professional training, and action-based workshops.
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At the GVLC, we design every virtual program to cultivate the skills learners need for the workplace, including teamwork, cross-cultural communications and leadership.
Building on our expertise, our partners’ needs and best practices in virtual learning, we create excellent tech-enabled learning experiences. In every program, we integrate practices such as action-based learning; synchronous, asynchronous, and blended approaches; and learner-support systems.
We help each of our learners to become more employable, globally connected, prepared for the workplace, and skilled in digital literacy, cultural competency, leadership, and teamwork.
Relevant:
Attractive to today's digitally fluent, mobile students.
Flexible:
Engage learners from almost anywhere and on their own schedule.
Skill-based:
Provide critical, lifelong skills, including virtual teamwork, cross-cultural collaboration, digital project management, and technological know-how.
Accessible:
Effectively bridge cultures and reach under-resourced communities and non-traditional learners.
Cutting-edge:
Enable innovative models of learning.
Cost-effective:
Can be scaled to maximize impact.
We leverage the resources of the University of Michigan, a leading U.S. research university.
We draw on a global network of university partners and other organizations.
Our programs utilize ExtendEd, a proprietary portal optimized for virtual learning.
We have experience developing e-learning and implementing large scale virtual programming.
The GVLC designs and delivers virtual programs and services, including:
Advisory services for institutions interested in virtual programming.
Management services and expertise in virtual exchange (technology-enabled, sustained, people-to-people education programs) and other online program models (including: geographically dispersed, classroom to classroom, and others).
Development and consultation on curriculum for virtual learning and online pedagogy.
