Bosscher鈥檚 Global Virtual Class Featured on CNN Indonesia
Amidst a global pandemic, the 91精选 community is still making a difference around the world! Recently Emily Bosscher, Director of First Year Experience, taught an online English class for students in Indonesia. The class was featured on .
The students attend one of 91精选鈥檚 international partner schools, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman (Unsoed), a large public university located in Purwokerto in Central Java. Bosscher had visited the school last summer at the invitation of 91精选 Professor of Theology Yudha Thianto, Ph.D., a native of Indonesia.
鈥淵udha has been influential in starting the Department of English at Unsoed and helping them raise their standards of teaching,鈥� said Bosscher. 鈥淒uring my time there last summer, I did some guest lecturing in their College of English, along with delivering several public lectures, visiting a couple of boarding and village schools, and meeting with various faculty to talk about teaching methods and Generation Z students in general.鈥�
Bosscher has remained friends with several of the Unsoed professors, particularly Ibu Nisa Roisaya. When Unsoed moved to virtual learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Roisaya reached out to Bosscher and asked her to consider teaching a virtual class as part of a creative writing course. 鈥淣isa, who is also doing some certification work with this project, decided to bring in more global interaction. Along with myself, two guest lecturers from India participated as well,鈥� said Bosscher, who focused her lesson on figurative language. 鈥淪ince they are meeting virtually anyway, why not bring in voices from around the world?鈥�
She said it was an amazing experience to teach the class and meet her fellow instructors virtually. 鈥淪ince every single country, religion, and person is affected by this global pandemic, we have a wonderful opportunity to learn globally and be more creative in our teaching,鈥� she said. 鈥淭his is a great time for all professors to reach out to their international connections to collaborate in education, because we are all using platforms that are universal.鈥�