The George Washington University’s Center for International Business Education & Research (GW-CIBER) is pleased to invite language instructors to apply to take part in the Business Language Case Fellows Program. The program offers a unique opportunity for instructors to get in-depth, hands-on training on how to develop business cases for use in the language classroom. As part of the program, Fellows will produce one full case, as well as associated teaching notes and ancillaries, which will be made available through GW-CIBER’s Business Language Case Clearinghouse portal.
PURPOSE:
As a teaching tool, business cases in languages require students to use their language skills first to understand and then to solve real problems faced by decision-makers in the business world. GW-CIBER Business Language faculty and previous BL Case Fellows have created multimedia cases in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish but more is needed to cover a broader range of business topics, companies, scenarios, and cultural practices and perspectives.
DELIVERABLES:
Faculty selected as “Business Language Case Fellows” will attend an intensive case-writing training, write a new case (2-3 pages) along with teaching notes, assessment tools, and relevant ancillaries to enhance comprehension, such as graphs, audio, video, etc. Fellows will briefly present their completed cases and materials to the cohort at the end of the summer via Zoom.
HONORARIUM:
Instructors selected as Business Language Case Fellows will receive an honorarium of $750.
ELIGIBILITY & REQUIREMENTS:
- Application is open to any language instructor (full- or part-time, and at any rank or level and any kind of institution).
- Applicants must commit to participating in an all-day online case writing workshop on Friday, April 25th, 1:00-5:00pm . If you are not available to participate on that day, please wait to apply next year.
- Applicants must be willing to pilot their new case in one of their language classes (within 16 months of completion) and provide evaluation feedback to GW-CIBER about the effectiveness.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Please complete this form by February 16, 2025.
Applicants will be notified of the decision by early March.
More information on GW-CIBER and its Business Language programming (including cases) can be found on: http://business.gwu.edu/CIBER
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