Lessons from the Field: Teaching a Completely Online "Global Business" Course to African Refugees in Northern Kenya and Malawi

Authors

Ravi Chinta, Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship, Xavier UniversityFollow
Kristine Brands, Assistant Professor, Graduate Accounting, Regis UniversityFollow
Mark Beattie, Director, Distant Learning, Gonzaga UniversityFollow
Vivian Faustino-Pulliam, Adjunct Professor, University of San FranciscoFollow
Bernard Kelleher, Adjunct Faculty, External MBA, Regis UniversityFollow
Stanley Wheeler, Adjunct Faculty, External MBA, Regis UniversityFollow

Document Type

Praxis

Abstract

The six authors of this paper taught a completely online “Global Business” course to African refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya and the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi. The paper summarizes twelve lessons learned by the instructors while teaching the course and offers suggestions for adaptations in future courses delivered in the “Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins” diploma program.

Recommended Citation

Chinta, Ravi; Brands, Kristine; Beattie, Mark; Faustino-Pulliam, Vivian; Kelleher, Bernard; and Wheeler, Stanley. "Lessons from the Field: Teaching a Completely Online "Global Business" Course to African Refugees in Northern Kenya and Malawi." Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal Vol. 1: No. 1 (2012) . Available at: https://epublications.regis.edu/jhe/vol1/iss1/14