GlobalWorkIT
GlobalWorkIT prepares European and Korean students for employment in the international information and communications technology (ICT) industry by enhancing understanding of global issues in the ICT sector and of the languages and cultures of the participant countries. It connects three European and three Korean Higher Education Institutions located in world-leading ICT sectors (Korea, Ireland, Germany and Finland) and leverages their relationships with ICT companies that are innovation-focused and internationally-oriented. In this paper, we present GlobalWorkIT and discuss how it will build an EU-Korea network of ICT professionals to underpin trade between the two regions, secure industry sponsorship for future mobilities and enhance co-operation between the education partners and ICT companies.
GlobalWork IT developed
EU-Korea student mobility programme in Semester 2 of Year 3. For DIT students this means spending a semester aborad in Korea taking accredited modules in specialist computer science topics, cultural and lingustic training in the Korean language and cultural studies.
An online module – the ’Global Classroom’. Key to the module is the semester-long Global Classroom module, delivered online across timezones, countries and cultures is a unique and innovative team project module. The student’s international experiences are captured by using work practices in the global ICT industry (e.g. teleconferencing, time differences, project management in geographically distributed context, etc). Students reflect on their own international experiences, share and learn from each other while working on a technical team based IT project.
