Twelve University of Guyana students in a group of 75 international peers are undergoing a six-week online course to gain knowledge and expertise in the global education topics that they will be facilitating in local secondary schools, according to press release from One World Youth Project(OWYP).
They will be focusing on topics such as global interconnectedness, cross-cultural dialogue and addressing global issues on the local level as well as how to teach these topics in a classroom. The course includes a series of filmed interviews with professors and experts from each of these fields.
The international education non-profit organization, OWYP, which is based in Washington D.C. this past month has been training university students in Georgetown and in the U.S. as well as in Turkey, Kosovo and Pakistan to facilitate global education and local leadership in society.
Through the OWYP programme students from six university campuses have volunteered to prepare local youth to be global citizens in an increasingly interconnected world.
Through the OWYP online course, 75 university students from around the world are virtually meeting each other and making personal connections with students from diverse cultures.
In one of the online sessions, the release noted, students were assigned to create a multimedia presentation of who they are and their hopes and dreams, which was viewed and commented on by all 75 of their international peers.
Many of the students said that participating in this online international exchange forum was one of the most rewarding and enlightening experiences of their lives.
Upon completing the course, managed by OWYP’s Programme Director Cady Voge, OWYP university student participants will be passing on the experience of international exchange to over 480 secondary school students around the world.
The goal of the programme is to prepare youth for the interconnected 21st century where they will be called upon to respectfully interact with people from diverse backgrounds, and to address the world’s biggest challenges, including global warming, global hunger, HIV/AIDS, and poverty, the release stated.
