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The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) has created - a series of free digital modules that can be used in Program and/or General Studies courses. Select videos are on the . Watch a presentation from November 2020 to learn more:

 


Resources for Global Learning

  • : NAFSA Magazine
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  • : for K-12 
  • : Longview Foundation Fellowship 

Classroom Tools

  • supporting Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Video-making 
  • : Video-making
  • : video story telling 
  • : Asynchronous video chatting
  • creating story books, student/educator versions) 
  • : Creative tool for presentation and projects
  • : free design templates
  • : presentation, infographics, flier templates
  • : presentation tool
  • : free images from independent photographers
  • : Free images
  • : building your own newspaper 
  • : Collaborate with other classes or serve as guest speakers: 
  • : a place that allows users to watch synchronized videos with each other and chat in real time
  • : an online whiteboard
  • : A free application to create an online bulletin board to display information for any topic. Add images, links, videos, and more
  • : a real-time collaborative search engine: 
  • : find collaborations with courses around the world
  • (BLIC): virtual exchange 
  • : Virtual exchange 
  • : writing app
  • : Discussion tool
  • : Virtual Exchange 
  • :Virtual Exchange 
  • : video-making tool
  • : Concept map tool 

Resources and Materials 

  • Learning and Teaching Repository:  
  • : Audio database 
  • PBS documentaries
  • : various courses in all disciplines 
  • : resources in all disciplines 
  • : online materials and resources in all disciplines
  • : all disciplines
  • : all disciplines
  • : Evidence-based practices for educators
  • : research resources for educators 
  • : resource for educators
  • : Asia Society 
  • : International Education and Resource Network
  • : Global documentaries
  • : Games and tools in classrooms 
  • : Global Resources from Cabrini University 
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  • : multimedia story-telling 
  • : global citizenship
  • : a video 
  • : Ethical photography for social change 
  • : Harvard University
  • : Asian Society
  • : EducationWeek Blog
  • National Intelligence Council (NIC) Global Trends Report (published every four years)
  • : A worldwide science and education program 
  • : resource on global citizenship
  • : World peace project 
  • : Asia Society  
  • Global learning resources 
  • (HubICL)
  • Stevens Initiative: U.S. and Jordan present sustainable hospitality and tourism business concepts
  • Themed Resource Bank for Internationalisation:
  • Global Resources (Lucy Gray’s Evernote Folder) #GlobalEd:
  • Global Resources (kindly provided by Tamar Breslauer, the former NAFSA librarian):
  • : Radio show
  • My go-to resources for intercultural learning activities (True North Intercultural):  
  • Global Shapers (young people are in action):  
  • Peace Corps Resources:  
  • Story Circle: Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies (Open Access) by Darla Deardorff:  
  • The Tiago Group (games and activities):  
  • Global Shapers Survey 2017 (World Economic Forum):  
  • World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence:  
  • Crossing Borders Education (intercultural resources):
  • Google Museums:  
  • The Global Citizens' Initiative:  
  • UNESCO Global Citizenship Education:  
  • Solution to the World's Biggest Problems are within our reach (a Sway template):  
  • Global Citizen:   
  • International Color Symbolism Chart:  
  • Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem): Social Sciences Database:  
  • The Choices Program Teaching with the news:  
  • Hemispheres: The International Outreach Consortium:  
  • Oxfam Education for Global Citizenship (k-16 grades):
  • UNESCO digital library:  
  • Managing hot topics in classrooms:  

Data and Information (useful for courses with quantitative reasoning and informational literacy) 

  • Timeline of word usage frequency in New York Times articles
  • : maps
  • : Front pages of newspapers around the world
  • : International Directory of Search Engines
  • 1950-2035
  • 2010-2015
  • since 1820
  • : databases with visualization 
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  • : Global Health Research
  • Global health topics
  • News 
  • : data and visualization
  • : open data on health sciences
  • : weekly newsletter with various datasets

Culture and Perspectives 

  • : a Podcast on perspectives and cultures
  • : an activity or assignment on understanding cultures and perspectives through languages 
  • Europe: Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research 
  • : by Peace Corps
  • Howard, R. D., Hanson, G., & Laywell, C. (2019).
  • : Cultural activiies
  • (NPR podcast): How people do things in different countries  
  • by David McCandless
  • : Cultural influences
  • : Identifying one form of bias (Newseum)

Languages and Regions 

  • : Reources for language acquisition housed in University of Minnesota
  • : Latin American Network Information Center 
  • by University of Minnesota
  • : reources for languages 
  • (NPR podcast): Language and people who speak those languages
  • : e-books in multiple languages 

Teacher Education: 

  • : NAFSA resource 
  • : a Longview Foundation Project 

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • SDG resources (collected by Lucy Gray):  
  • SDG Courses: 
  • #TeachSDGs app:  

Diversityand Social Justice

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  • : The power of an illusion (PBS)  
  • : Simulation game on dynamics of power and privilege
  • : Cultural diversity and Against discrimination 
  • from Dr. Maura Cullen 

K-12 Resources

  • : K-12 resources on information about the world
  • : K-12 teachers 
  • : global learning for K-12

Instruments: 

  • Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI):
  • Global Perspective Inventory (GPI):
  • Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI):  
  • NSSE: National Survey of student engagement:
  • NSSE Global Module:
  • AAC&U VALUE Rubrics:  
  • AAC&U On Solid Ground VALUE Report:
  • Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) freshman survey: 
  • Global Competencies Inventory (GCI):
  • Allegheny College Assessment:
  • Multi-State Collaborations (MSC) Assessment:
  • Global Engagement Survey (GES):
  • ACE/NSSE presentation:
  • Global Competence for students’ Career Development (Binghamton University):
  • GlobalSmart:   
  • OECD PISA 2018 Global Competency for an Inclusive World:  
  • PISA Global Competency:  
  • Soliya Impact Assessment Tools:  
  • Global Mindset Inventory:  
  • Collectivism vs. Individualism scale:  
  • Personality diagnostic questionnaire:  
  • Intercultural Competence (Dr. Alvino Fantini):
  • Post-Study Abroad Assessment:
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General Assessment:

  • Assessing Global Learning (AAC&U):  
  • My Cultural Awareness Profile (myCAPĀ©) Suite of Resources:  
  • NAFSA Taskforce on assessment:
  • Various general assessment instruments:
  • AAC&U Report on Trends in Learning Outcomes Assessment: Key Findings from a Survey among Administrators at AAC&U Member Institutions.
  • ETS Intercultural Competency in Higher Education:
  • Assessing, without tests, by Paul Fain from InsiderHighEd:
  • Colleges Continue to Abandon Standardized Tests to Assess Learning, Survey Finds. By from the Chronicle:
  • Willis, T. Y. (2015). ā€œAnd still we riseā€¦ā€: Microaggressions and intersectionality in the study abroad experiences of black women. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 26, 209-230.
  • Davis, John M. (2016). Toward a Capacity Framework for Useful Student Learning Outcomes Assessment in College Foreign Language Programs. The Modern Language Journal, 100(1), 377–399.  
  • New tool to manipulate TIMMS, PISA, PIAAC data from NCES:  
  • OECD: Global competence for an inclusive world.
  • Global Competence Framework:  
  • Global Competence (PISA 2018):  
  • Ross, K.G. (2008). Toward an operational definition of cross-cultural competence from interview data. Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. Retrieved from:
  • Milton Bennet’s Six Stages of Intercultural Sensitivity:
  • Geert Hofstede’s Dimension of Culture ()
  • International Cross-cultural Experiential Learning Evaluation Toolkit:
  • International Partnership Rubrics:
  • Resiliency Quiz:
  • BaFa Bafa:      
  • Harvard Implicit Association Test:
  • The Need for Closure Scale:
  • International Education Planning Rubric: State Strategies to Prepare Globally Competent Students:
  • Global CTE Toolkit:
  • 53 ways to assess understanding:
  • 15 assessment activities:
  • 50+ questions for faculty self-reflection:  
  • Demystifying Outcomes Assessment for International Educators: A Practical Approach (Stylus, 2015)
  • The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009)
  • Some Thoughts on Assessing Intercultural Competence.  Viewpoints, National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment (May 15, 2014).
  • ā€œBuilding Interculturally Competent Facultyā€ in IIENetworker, Spring 2012,  
  • From Theory to Practice:  Intercultural Competence    (Note - this is a nice summary of the first research-based ICC framework and quite accessible/digestible without having to read lengthy articles)
  • ā€œDesigning a Model for International Learning Assessmentā€ (invited article) in AAC&U’s Democracy and Diversity publication (vol 12, no 1, p 7-9)  by Sternberger, L., Pysarchik, D., Yun, Z., and Deardorff, D. (2008). 
  • ā€œThe Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competenceā€ in Journal of Studies in International Education, (Fall 2006 vol 10, no 3, p 241-266) – Note:  This is the first journal article that published this research and some faculty find it quite useful....
  • Study abroad and beyond: Effects of global learning on career outcomes and skill development  (IIE):    
  • The seven habits for sustainable education abroad growth (AIEA Issue Brief):  
  • NAFSA Study Abroad bibliography:
  • Kortegast, C. A., & Boisfontaine, M. T. (2015). Beyond ā€œIt Was Goodā€: Students’ Post–Study Abroad Practices for Negotiating Meaning. Journal of College Student Development, 56(8), 812–828.  
  • Schnabel, D. B. L., Kelava, A., & Vijver, F. J. R. Van De. (2016). The Effects of Using Collaborative Assessment With Students Going Abroad: Intercultural Competence and Stages of Change. Journal of College Student Development, 57(1), 79–94. 
  • Forum on Education Abroad. (2016). Insurance Claims Data and Mortality Rate for College Students Studying Abroad. Retrieved from  Also cites: Inside Higher Ed: and Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Bƶttcher, L., AraĆŗjo, N. A. M., Nagler, J., Mendes, J. F. F., Helbing, D., & Herrmann, H. J. (2016). Gender gap in the ERASMUS mobility program. PLOS One, 11(2), 1–9.
  • Strantz, A. (2015). Wayfinding in Global Contexts – Mapping Localized Research Practices with Mobile Devices. Computers and Composition, 38, 164–176.  
  • Mahmoud, O., & Farrugia, C. (2016). The World is the New Classroom: Non-Credit Education Abroad: A Study of U.S. Student Participation in Non-Credit Education Abroad and U.S. Institutions’ Data Collection Processes. Retrieved from
  • Gambino, G., & Hashim, S. M. (2016). In Their Own Words: Assessing Global Citizenship in a Short-Term Study-Abroad Program in Bangladesh. Journal of Political Science Education, 12(1), 15–29.  
  • Guest Blog Post: Study Abroad through an Anthropological Lens, an interview with Dr. Neriko Doerr. By Tamar Breslauer,
  • Glass, M. R. (2014). Encouraging reflexivity in urban geography fieldwork: study abroad experiences in Singapore and Malaysia. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 38(1), 69-85.  
  • Barbuto, John E., Gerard Beenen, and Han Tran. 2015. ā€œThe Role of Core Self-Evaluation, Ethnocentrism, and Cultural Intelligence in Study Abroad Success.ā€ International Journal of Management Education 13 (3): 268–277. http://doi:10.1016/j.ijme.2015.07.004
  • Shiri, S. (2015). Intercultural Communicative Competence Development During and after Language Study Abroad: Insights From Arabic. Foreign Language Annals, 48(4), 541–569.   
  • CIEE knowledge series:
  • Education Abroad Faculty Toolkit:
  • Forum on Education Abroad:
  • What’s Up with the Culture:
  • AIFS/AIFS Foundation Special Collection of Resources on the History of Education Abroad:
  • Global Gateway Courses (Cornell University):  
  • Global cognition:   
  • To Hell with Good Intentions (by Ivan Illich):  
  • Bringing learning home (Australian universities):  
  • Association of Study Abroad Providers in Ireland (ASAPI) Report: 
  • Faculty and education abroad: The role of faculty in promoting global learning on U.S. Campuses (IIE publication):
  • Peace Corps Educator Resource:  
  • CORE: Cultural, orientation, Reflection, and Engagement (University of Virginia):
  • IIE GLO Graduate Student Study Abroad:  
  • IEAA report on the impact of short-term study abroad on graduate employability:  
  • Studying Abroad: An Online Guide for Students in Healthcare and Medicine:

Global Learning & the Curriculum:

  • Global Realities - Texas Christian University:
  • Global Scholars - University of Tulsa:
  • Global Citizens Project - University of South Florida:
  • Global Initiative - Miami University of Ohio:
  • Free research for International Women’s Day from Wiley on gender equity in the classroom; the family; the media; the workplace; healthcare; humanitarian works; and women in STEM.  
  • Labaree, D. F. (2016). An Affair to Remember: America's Brief Fling with the University as a Public Good. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 50(1), 20–36.  
  • Haskins, N. H., Ziomek-Daigle, J., Sewell, C., Crumb, L., Appling, B., & Trepal, H. (2016). The Intersectionality of African American Mothers in Counselor Education: A Phenomenological Examination. Counselor Education and Supervision, 55(1), 60–75.   
  • Jaschik, S., & Lederman, D. (2016). The 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College & University Presidents: A study by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from   
  • Kearney, Melissa S. & Phillip B. Levine. (2016). Income Inequality, social mobility and the decision to drop out of high school. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
  • Gallup (2015). Gallup Student Poll Overall Report. Special Guest Blog Post by Dawn Wooten, Associate Director of International Student Scholar Services attended the release of a new Gallup Student poll. View her discussion post.  
  • New IES website compiling data on state education reforms:  
  • Special Issue of New Directions in Community Colleges on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement: Ronan, Bernie and Carrie B. Kisker, eds. 2016. New Directions for Community Colleges. Issue 173. Spring.  
  • Eagan, K., Stolzenberg, E. B., Bates, A. K., Aragon, M. C., Suchard, M. R., & Rios-Aguilar, C. (2016). The American freshman: National norms fall 2015. Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA.
  • UNESCO draft report on global convention:  
  • Global Service Learning Resources:
  • UCSD Co-curricular Record:
  • Internationalizing the Curriculum in Action:
  • Transnational Education Toolkit:
  • Gay, G. (2010). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
  • Delivering global learning: A Bray Leino Learning White Paper:  
  • What is global learning? Global Footprints:  
  • OECD PISA Global Competence framework:  
  • Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL):  
  • HolonIQ 2019 Global Learning Landscape:  
  • Building Global Citizens (Microsoft Educator Center Course):
  • ā€œA Matter of Logic?ā€ in International Educator (vol XIV, no. 3).
  • United Nations Academic Impact Hub on Global Citizenship:  
  • Community of Inquiry Model:
  • The Center for Global Awareness:
  • Frameworks for 21st Century Learning:
  • Teachers for Global Classrooms Program (TGC):
  • Globalization Education Monitoring Report:
  • Language matters:
  • The Global Citizens’ Initiatives:
  • Global Systems Science:
  • NAFSA resources:
  • NAFSA professional resource:
  • Global Learning Council:
  • GlobalSL.org Resource list:
  • Global competence:  
  • Models of Global Learning:  
  • NAFSA Global Studies Literature Review:  
  • UNESCO Global education monitoring report 2019: Migration, displacement and education: building bridges, not walls:   
  • Internationalization of higher education: What is internationalization (prepared by Dr. Douglas Proctor):  
  • International Association of Universities (IAU) Knowledge Hub:  
  • UN SDGs and MOOC courses:  
  • Department of Education Be Global Ready Initiative:  
  • UNESCO Intercultural Competence:  
  • : EducationWeek Blog
  • Managing hot topics in classrooms:  
  • NAFSA Curriculum integration, Best Practices:
  • AAC&U Webinar: Global Learning—Beyond Study Abroad:  
  • Mikk, B. K., & Steglitz, I. E. (2017). Learning Across Cultures: Locally and Globally. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.  
  • Killick, D. (2007). Cross-cultural capability and global perspectives: Guidelines for curriculum review. Internationalising Higher Education. Leeds Metropolitan University. Retrieved from
  • Augustus, C. (2015). Knowledge Liaisons: Negotiating Multiple Pedagogies in Global Indigenous Studies Courses. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 45(4), 1–18. 
  • Dryer, D. B. (2016). Appraising translingualism. College English, 78(3), 274–283.  
  • Andrade, M. S. (2016). Global Expansion and English Language Learning. New Directions for Higher Education, (173), 75–85.  
  • Young, A. L. (2016). Innovation and Global eLearning: A Case Study at Brigham Young University – Idaho. New Directions for Higher Education, (173), 87–96.
  • European Higher Education in the World. A report from European Commission. Retreat at:
  • Song, X. (2016). ā€œCritical Thinkingā€ and Pedagogical Implications for Higher Education. East Asia, 33, 25–40.   
  • Seifert, T. A., Gillig, B., Hanson, J. M., Pascarella, E. T., & Blaich, C. F. (2014). The Conditional Nature of High Impact/Good Practices on Student Learning Outcomes. The Journal of Higher Education, 85(4), 531–564.  
  • Barber, J. P. (2012). Integration of Learning: A Grounded Theory Analysis of College Students’ Learning. American Educational Research Journal, 49(3), 590–617.     
  • Yemini, M., Yardeni-Kuperberg, O., & Natur, N. (2015). The global – local nexus: Desired history curriculum components from the perspective of future teachers in a conflict-ridden society. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 47(1), 37-41.  
  • Niehaus, E., & Williams, L. (2016). Faculty Transformation in Curriculum Transformation: The Role of Faculty Development in Campus Internationalization. Innovative Higher Education,41, 59–74.
  • Hart Research Associates. (2016). Recent Trends in General Education Design, Learning Outcomes, and Teaching Approaches: Key Findings from a Survey among Administrators at AAC&U Member Institutions, (January). Retrieved from  
  • University of Daytona – Teaching a Global Student Community:
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  • Curriculum Resources:

Internationalization:

  • ACE’s Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement:      
  • ACE’s Internationalization in Action Series: http://
  • ACE’s Internationalization Toolkit:  
  •  NAFSA resource 
  • Seeber, M., Cattaneo, M., Huisman, J., & Paleari, S. (2016).
  • , winner of the CIES Higher Education SIG Best Book Award 2015.
  • NAFSA: Trends & Insights: Dr. Roopa Desai Trilokekar, "Strategic Internationalization: At what cost?"
  • Knight-Grofe, J., & Deacon, L. (2016). International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 1–15.
  • Kim, S. K. (2016). Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 46(1), 116–135.
  • David, M. (2016). British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(1), 169-189.
  • Global citizenship and national (re)formations: Analysis of citizenship education reform in Spain. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 9(3), 239–254.    
  • UNESCO. 2015. R
  • Jaschik, S., & Lederman, D. (2016). Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from
  • Dirks, Nicholas B, and Nils Gilman. 2015. ā€œā€ Research and Occasional Paper Series: CSHE 12.15 (December)
  • Lumby, J., and N. Foskett. 2015. ā€œā€ Educational Management Administration & Leadership: 1–17. doi:10.1177/1741143214549978.
  • Moon, R. J. (2016). Internationalisation without cultural diversity? Higher education in Korea. Comparative Education, 0068(January), 1–18.  
  • Portnoi, Laura M. and Sylvia S. Bagley. 2016. Welcome to the Era of "Global Competition 2.0": The AAUP's Role in a Globalized, Competitive Higher Education Landscape. NAFSA Trends and Insights (January).
  • Portnoi, L. M., & Bagley, S. S. (2016). In service to the globe? Universities’ changing sense of community. Trends & Insights: NAFSA, (January), 1–6.
  • Hot topics for Senior International Officer (from a NAFSA Survey):  
  • Do political events in a host country affect international education engagement? (AIEC 2017 Report):  
  • NAFSA Global Studies Literature Review:  
  • Cross-border Education Research Team (SUNY Albany) (IBCs):  
  • International partnerships:  
  • Higher Education Academy Knowledge Hub:  
  • EAIE Barometer report:  
  • British Council's global landscape:  
  • Global University Network for Innovation:  
  • IoC in Action (Internationalizing the Curriculum):  
  • Center for Curriculum Internationalisation:  
  • Teaching and Learning with International Students:  
  • International Student Lifecycle:  
  • Arkoudis, S., Yu, X., Baik, C., Borland, H., Chang, S., Lang, I., … Watty, K. (2010). Finding Common Ground: enhancing interaction between domestic and international students. Australian Learning & Teaching Council.
  • Forbes-Mewett, H., & McCulloch, J. (2016). International Students and Gender-Based Violence. Violence against Women, 22(3), 344–365.  
  • Botha, W. (2016). English and international students in China today: A sociolinguistic study of English-medium degree programs at a major Chinese university. English Today, 32(01), 41–47.  
  • Arkoudis, S., & Kelly, D. P. (2016). Shifting the Narrative: International Students and Communication Skills in Higher Education. IEAA Research Digest 8, 8(February), 1–12. Retrieved from  
  • Barnhardt, C. L., Phillips, C. W., Young, R. L., & Sheets, J. E. (2016). The Administration of Diversity and Equity on Campuses and its Relationships to Serving Undocumented Immigrant Students. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, (Advance online publication). Retrieved from  
  • Zhang, Han. (2016) Leave China, Study in America, Find Jesus: Why a growing number of Chinese students at U.S. universities are coming home with Christian beliefs. Foreign Policy. February 11, 2016.  
  • Li, J., Marbley, A. F., Bradley, L. J., & Lan, W. (2016). Attitudes toward Seeking Professional Counseling Services among Chinese International Students: Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, and English Proficiency. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 44(1), 65-76.  
  • Hansen, A. S., & ThĆøgersen, S. (2015). Introduction: Chinese transnational students and the global education hierarchy. Learning and Teaching, 8(3), 1–12.  
  • Tran, Ly Thi, and Thao Thi Phuong Vu. 2016. ā€œā€˜I’m Not like That, Why Treat Me the Same Way?’ The Impact of Stereotyping International Students on Their Learning, Employability and Connectedness with the Workplace.ā€ The Australian Educational Researcher.  doi:10.1007/s13384-015-0198-8.  
  • Icebreaker for international students:
  • International student survey:  
  • The International Educator 2014:
  • This compiled by the, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • University of Washington's
  • True North Intercultural: