In September, 2024, GCDI team members published Online classrooms where students run the show: we tested how this unconventional model can work in The Conversation.

GCDI Team members presented “Research & Practice Opportunities with the Global Classroom for Democracy Innovation (GCDI)” at the Participedia Partners Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference took place at the University of the Western Cape, June 5-7, 2024.

GCDI team members presented “Learning for local, everyday change: The short-term impact of the GCDI in producing change-agents for sustainability” at the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) 2024 conference in South Africa this past April.

The GCDI team published International collaboration and connections through design thinking: A case study of the Global Classroom for Democracy Innovation (GCDI) in the April 2024 issue of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) in the South.

A blog post from ISSOTL detailing the in-person workshop which they hosted at this year’s International Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) Conference by Global Classroom co-founders Matthew Wingfield, Mukisa Mujulizi and Jesi Carson. Co-authors included Bettina Von Lieres, Marco Adamovic and Laurence Piper.

The September 2023 TAN conference title “New normalities? Rethinking educational practices in times of crisis and challenge” was attended by two of our colleagues Dr Matthew Wingfield and Mukisa Mujulizi. They presented a paper titled "Pedagogical power dynamics seen from the South: A case study of the Global Classroom for Democracy Innovation".

Global Classroom co-founders Matthew Wingfield, Mukisa Mujulizi and Jesi Carson hosted an in-person workshop session at this years International Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) Conference. Co-authors included Bettina Von Lieres, Marco Adamovic and Laurence Piper. ISSOTL 2023 was hosted in the Netherlands by Utrecht University, and the theme of the conference was “Context Matters.”

This case study explores the Global Classroom for Democracy Innovation (GCDI), a virtual exchange program that repositions students as co-creators in the design and implementation process.

2023's South African Sociological Associations' (SASA) conference was attended by two of our founding members Dr Matthew Wingfield and Mukisa Mujulizi. They presented a paper titled "Pedagogical power dynamics seen from the South: A case study of the Global Classroom for Democracy Innovation".

Laurence Piper and Bettina von Lieres presented ‘Learning to become change agents through international collaboration: insights and challenges from the Global Classroom Initiative’ at the First International WIL Conference 2022, Trollhättan, Sweden, 7-9 December 2022.

Members of the GCDI team met in-person for the first time when they co-presented at the International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference (ISSOTL 2022) in Kelowna, BC, Canada.

GCDI Co-founder, Bettina Von Lieres, presented our work at SFU’s Unbounded Classroom Symposium. Watch the recorded session!