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Integrating Global Collaboration
Video 1. What is a Home? A website documenting the global collaboration between
Humbar and SZPT students. Go to umarbacchus.ca/collaborate/index.html
References
Helf, D. (December 12, 2010). Who are the
Undergraduates? The Chronicle of Higher
Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.
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Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V.,
Freeman, A. (2014). NMC Horizon Report:
2014 Higher Education Edition. The New
Media Consortium: Austin, TX.
About the Authors
Zhenlin Gao is a lecturer in the Animation
School of Shenzhen Polytechnic, one
of China’s leading technical universities.
He graduated with a Master of Multimedia
from the University of Central Lancashire in
the United Kingdom. He taught in Central
Lancashire for five years. Zhenlin’s research
interest is user experience design, and he is
also very keen to collaborate with higher education
institutes overseas to help expand his
student’s knowledge of the world, at the same
time, improving student’s user experiences.
Tom Green is Professor, Interactive Multimedia
with the School of Media Studies
at the Humber Institute of Technology and
Advanced Learning in Toronto, Canada.
He is also the author of over 15 books, with
Pearson Education, Que, Peachpit Press,
New Riders and Apress. He has produced
several online videos for Lynda.com and
Envato. Tom has also delivered expert lectures
at such Post Secondary institutions as
Shenzhen Polytechnic, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Pasadena Community College,
Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing,
Ocean University in Shanghai, University of
Wisconsin, The Sloan Merlot Consortium
and EMMA Foundation Master Classes for
Post Secondary students in Hamburg, Germany
and Toronto. Tom also believes his
students deserve to be taught by instructors
who are regarded as experts in their field and
whose knowledge of their subject is current
with industry best practice.
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