Global Teaching & Learning


CIA World Factbook
Information on every country and region of the world, including downloadable maps and other briefs.

Citizens for Global Solutions
A site working toward educating the public about global interdependence. Site includes a variety of resources including video clips and web blogs.

Discovery Channel: Global Education Partnership
Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership is a charitable organization dedicated to using the power of television to improve lives in underserved areas around the world. The site includes links to learning centers around the globe and other resources where students, teachers and entire communities can access and share information.

Educating for the Global Community: A Framework for Community Colleges
A 1994 report by the Stanley Foundation and the American Council on International Intercultural Education.  It answers the questions: 1) What does it mean to be a "globally competent" learner? and 2) What is required institutionally for community colleges to produce globally competent learners? You can download this article in PDF.

Games for Global Education
A site with digital games for students on global issues, such as global poverty that can be used in teaching and learning.

Global Education
A site sponsored by the Commonwealth of Australia. Includes content on global issues by topic, country profiles, teaching tools, strategies and activities regarding global issues.  Information also is provided on support and networks and curriculum links.

Global Education Center
A site sponsored by an Oklahoma organization to educate Americans about our global interdependence,
communicating global concerns to public officials, and developing proposals to create, reform, and strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations.

Global Education Centre
A New Zealand site providing services to the formal and non-formal education sector around Global Education.  The site includes training and resources to teachers and others.

Global Education Network
Global Education Network (GEN) works with outstanding professors from top universities to develop liberal arts courses that combine advanced multimedia technologies with the most successful traditional teaching techniques.
GEN's multimedia courses bring together innovative pedagogy and high-quality production to provide students with enriching learning experiences at home, in the classroom, or anywhere in the world. Many of our courses are designed at the introductory college level,

Global Educator: A Higher Education Community of Practice
This site contains an extensive collection of peer-reviewed articles for Global Educators. It is a depository of articles on global education that can be downloaded.

Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
A library of Congress site, with world libraries and collections and other links, databases and resources on global and international subjects. The site includes collaborative digital libraries and a listing of the searchable digital collections of the Library of Congress that focus on history and cultures around the world. Also includes portals to the world and international cybercasts and exhibitions.

Global Issues Gateway
Provides a variety of resources on global issues. The site includes streaming multimedia content on various global issues such as children's rights, nation building and more.There also is instructional content on various subjects related to global issues, along with articles and other websites on various topics with a global focus.

Global Resources
A site with educational resources on global education and issues, including online courses, idea exchanges, resources for teachers and students. This is part of the World View site at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Global TeachNet
A resource site for U.S. classrooms by the National Peace Corps Association.

Globalization: Threat or Opportunity
An International Monetary Fund report on globalization and the role of institutions and organizations.

Maps that Teach U.S. and World Geography
A collection of online interactive maps, atlas,  and puzzles of the world.

National Geographic
Founded in 1888, the Society inspires people to care about the planet. Site includes many global resources and global sites, along with classroom resources for teachers and students. Also includes gallery of video clips for teaching.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
A collection of maps from across the world.

Teaching in a Global Context
A lesson on global education published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.  See the related links at the bottom of the lesson.

Teachnology: The Online Teacher Resource
Although geared toward elementary and secondary education, there are some excellent resources here for teachers in general. It includes such topics as a global educator's guide to the Internet and more.

Technology and Global Education
A collection of articles on  technological issues in global education.

The Global Community College
A website produced by the Stanley Foundation on the importance of implementing global education on the community college campus. The site includes case profiles of community colleges' global programs.

Worldview: An International Program for Educators
A program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

World History Archives
Contains many documents about world historical events.

Yale Global Online
A publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.