About Going Global U
Egypt/US students course for global teams creating mini-documentary videos.
Global U is a resource for faculty and university leaders who know that students need new skills to be successful in today's highly networked and diverse world. Going Global U provides information and ideas about how faculty are using new teaching strategies, enabled by readily available and simple communication technologies. And through these strategies, helps students learn and then apply their skills through working virtually and directly with students in classrooms around the world.
Going Global U was founded by Greg Tuke and draws lessons learned from his on-going teaching and faculty training experiences around the world.
Going Global U was founded by Greg Tuke and draws lessons learned from his on-going teaching and faculty training experiences around the world.
About the Going Global U team
Greg Tuke, Going Global U founder is a leading international authority in the design, teaching and training of Collaborative On-line International Learning (COIL) courses, training faculty across the US and internationally for the past decade. Additionally, he has provides consultation and training to university leadership teams world-wide, most recently in Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Canada, the US, Indonesia and India, helping them develop capacity for the support and expansion of COIL courses throughout their university system.
Mr. Tuke has taught nearly two dozen COIL courses at the University of Washington, Seattle University, and Antioch University in the fields of Communication, Environmental Sustainability, Business, Education Studies, International Studies, and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Students in his courses have partnered with university students in Rwanda, Vietnam, India, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Peru and the Philippines. He has a particular interest and history in working with students and faculty in the Middle East, including serving as the lead trainer for the Stevens Initiative's Connected Classrooms, coaching and training faculty and university leaders in Morocco, UAE, and the US.
Mr. Tuke's approach to education grows out of his experience in education reform with K-18 school systems, and international NGO’s like Mercy Corps and Soliya, where he focused on training and directly engaging youth leaders in Egypt, Jordan, Gaza and Lebanon with youth leaders in the US in cross-cultural learning and action-taking projects, using social media, youth-produced videos, and live video conferencing tools.
Mr. Tuke has twenty-five years of experience leading education and international organizations, redesigning travel abroad programs and placing students in international non-profit internships. He has a Masters in Social Work. In 1999 he was selected as a Denali Fellow, a three-year national program for social entrepreneurs led by faculty from Stanford and the Harvard Business School
Mr. Tuke has taught nearly two dozen COIL courses at the University of Washington, Seattle University, and Antioch University in the fields of Communication, Environmental Sustainability, Business, Education Studies, International Studies, and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Students in his courses have partnered with university students in Rwanda, Vietnam, India, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Peru and the Philippines. He has a particular interest and history in working with students and faculty in the Middle East, including serving as the lead trainer for the Stevens Initiative's Connected Classrooms, coaching and training faculty and university leaders in Morocco, UAE, and the US.
Mr. Tuke's approach to education grows out of his experience in education reform with K-18 school systems, and international NGO’s like Mercy Corps and Soliya, where he focused on training and directly engaging youth leaders in Egypt, Jordan, Gaza and Lebanon with youth leaders in the US in cross-cultural learning and action-taking projects, using social media, youth-produced videos, and live video conferencing tools.
Mr. Tuke has twenty-five years of experience leading education and international organizations, redesigning travel abroad programs and placing students in international non-profit internships. He has a Masters in Social Work. In 1999 he was selected as a Denali Fellow, a three-year national program for social entrepreneurs led by faculty from Stanford and the Harvard Business School
Karim Ashour, Going Global U Associate Trainer, was a Lecturer of Political Science and Public Policy at Future University in Egypt (FUE) where he and Greg Tuke collaborated on numerous COIL courses since 2012. He has also led other COIL courses at FUE while working with international partners in the US and South America. He holds an MA degree in Global Affairs from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and Sciences Po, Paris as well as a BA in Political Science. He is currently an Advisor at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), in the area of sustainable economic development, focusing on migration policy advice, gender equality, and capacity development. Mr. Ashour speaks Arabic, English, Italian, and French.
Abdellah Ghazi, Going Global U Associate Trainer, has taught at both the university and high school levels in Morocco for the past 26 years and has been a key country leader advocating for international collaboration courses for the past 17 years, while working with the International Education and Resource Network (IEARN). Previously he served as a trainer and facilitator for online collaboration with the Steven’s initiative that brought together classes from the Middle East region and their counterparts from USA. He was a fellow student in the ILEP international program that brought outstanding teachers from around the globe to be international leaders in education at the University of Minnesota. Mr. Ghazi holds a specialized Master in Translation Technology and Specialized Translation. He is currently a PhD candidate. He has taught in a variety of other schools in USA as well, expanding his understanding of teaching internationally. Mr. Ghazi speaks Arabic, English, French and German.