Intercultural Educators Online

Intercultural Educators Online is offered as a service to the international education community. It eventually will offer courses and seminars to serve the needs of educators, trainers, and learners who need access to information and training in subject areas related to intercultural education, specifically adult education, intercultural communication, intercultural leadership, and intercultural education.

"The place in which I'll fit does not exist until I make it." -James Baldwin

"We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt." -Harry F. Banks

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." -Albert Einstein (Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms, 1931, pg. 97)

"Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."—Albert Einstein

"My aim is to inspire reflection and action; so think of this book as a conversation, where you are free to elaborate and dissent" (Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview, 2009, p. 12)

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." ― Oscar Wilde

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant." (Ralph Waldo Emerson- US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882))

"(...) We cannot do everything, and realizing that we feel liberated.
This allows us to do something, and do it very well.
It is incomplete but it is a beginning, a step along the way, and an opportunity for the grace of the Lord to appear and do the rest.
Maybe we will never see the final results, but there is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, but not the Messiah.
We are prophets of a future that is not ours" (" Prayer of Oscar Romero "- by Ken Untener).

Course Descriptions and Contents

This site offers non-accredited courses for personal enrichment in a variety of intercultural subjects. Courses will be made available as they are completed. For your convenience, links are provided to textbooks and recommended resources on Amazon.com or its partners, where possible.

The contents of this site, including all courses and other online resources, are copyrighted by their authors and are not to be reused elsewhere without permission. The link below provides an overview of copyright issues and information on requesting permission to use materials from this site.

Course Format

This section provides a general introduction of how courses on this site present information and interact with the participants. Most courses will have an introductory section, which will describe the course content and provide contact information for students to communicate with the course creators or course instructors.

Each course will then have 1 or more content sections, depending on the nature or length of the course.

Courses will generally have a list of links to required or recommended books or resources, followed by an outline, with links to the different content sections. At the end of this introductory section, most courses will provide an introduction to the course author or instructor, a welcome note, and a syllabus, along with a list of resources that apply to the course as a whole.

After this introduction, there will typically be one or more content sections (often called units), where the course materials and activities will be presented for student participation. These sections will typically have three or more parts:

• Unit Contents: this section will typically contain the presentation of the information, often in the form of links to files in PDF or PPT format, or organized into files, called books, which contain a number of parts in order. The parts of a book may include custom web pages or links to internal or external files or embedded or linked video or audio clips.
• Unit Activities: these activities include tasks that students should (or must) do to learn and reinforce the content of the unit. These activities may include participation in discussions with other students, watching embedded videos and commenting on them with the other course participants, assignments to be graded, quizzes, etc.
• Unit Resources: in addition to the preceding sections which present the core content of the unit, these resources can guide students into learning the unit content in more depth. These resources may include links to other websites, videos, files, or other reference material which may deepen the learner's understanding of the content.

Course Developer Credentials

Robert B. Reed, Ph.D., the primary course author and site administrator of Intercultural Educators Online, has earned accredited graduate degrees in linguistics, computer science, higher education, communication, and the humanities, with additional graduate studies in leadership, business administration, and other disciplines. He has taught full or part-time at six universities in the United States, Colombia, and Peru for over forty years. While the courses on this site are not accredited, the course developer has sufficient credentials to teach accredited courses in the following areas at the graduate level: