A simple statement about the numbers of students studying abroad led Jeff Howarth, a geography professor at Middlebury College, to design an innovative cartography assignment: how to represent that data visually on a map.  This project-based approach to learning lets students put their theoretical learning into practice and explore the creative side of problem solving.

Convinced of the importance of international experiences, faculty at Champlain College in Vermont set out to provide every student with international educational experiences throughout their undergraduate years. Study abroad can only go so far, and in most cases only brings students to one new place. So Champlain College developed the Global Modules project that integrates international study in multiple courses and allows students to learn from and with university students in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.