Merging Global Awareness, Foreign Policy and Education

IIE President and CEO Allan E. Goodman offers ideas on how to integrate technology and global education in a new online op-ed.

Goodman’s piece is based on ideas set forth at "Global Awareness, Foreign Policy and Education: Preparing American Students for Life and Work in the 21st Century," a panel discussion that was co-hosted by IIE and the Syria Deeply digital media project. 

"There was a fundamental agreement that both people-to-people exchange and connections through technology have a role to play, but that virtual communities can enhance and extend – but not replace — the experience of international educational exchange," Goodman writes. "We cannot leave this vital component of education to either exchange or technology alone. Ultimately, connecting students to the world depends on a commitment on the part of teachers and educators at all levels to make international a part of everyone’s education. Education for global competence has to start at the earliest ages in the classroom, and continue throughout a student’s educational career." 

Read more on the Syria Deeply website.