Sentence examples for global courses from inspiring English sources

It is against this backdrop of MOOCs as global courses, designed in a different cultural context that the importance of seeking local methods of making sense of western-focused online courses for local Indonesian contexts can be understood.

Martin Bean, vice chancellor of the Open University, said: "There is no doubt that this is the 'web moment' for higher education and a battle is shaping up for growing student numbers on global courses online, with some able to grow large numbers of students very quickly.

"Grounded" recounts the couple's progress over five months after they said goodbye to their professional lives in Washington, D.C., and steered a global course guided by this nostalgic premise.

Yet these prerequisites may not be met in many parts of the world (ITU, 2015; World Bank, 2013), further limiting the actual potential for global course delivery.

This ship charts a global course and will be among the choices for those who decide to circumnavigate the globe.

More significantly, they are in a unique position to be the catalyst for a global course correction that goes beyond just helping smallholder farmers.

In September, when the UN is tasked with agreeing upon a post-2015 global development framework, leaders will have a critical opportunity to shift the global course of development, helping to ensure children are no longer left behind due to social, economic or geographic reasons.

Retrospective research supervisor ratings correlated with all outcomes and predicted case report marks and three of the four exam marks suggesting that these may measure global course ability, rather than just research skills.

In view of the possibility that selection bias (inherent in the recruitment method of using mailing lists of student unions) might have influenced the participation rate of global health courses, we assume that the real participation rate in global health courses is considerably lower among the whole population of German medical students.

A 2009 survey by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health found that enrollment in global health courses had doubled since 2006.

Many universities offer basic global politics courses, but regional focus minors, say in African geopolitics or the working of South East Asia, are helpful too.