VISION
The Center for Language and Learning (LLC) at Ghent University Global Campus is concerned with ideas and knowledge contained within language, and how users effectively communicate their knowledge of specific ideas in spoken and written forms. To this end, our focus is the provision of education courses, tutoring services, and support programmes for undergraduate and post-graduate students – each course/programme further refining the user’s language-related study skills to: Receive // Interpret // Interact with // Develop // and Communicate IDEAS in appropriate spoken and written academic and technical English.
Current university students are likely to have an active working-life until around the year 2070. For such graduates, what changes will they experience during the working-life of the 21st century? With the anticipated speed of change in scientific and technical skills, the best preparation for work in in the 21st century means training for lifelong learning in four areas: Critical Thinking / Creativity / Communication / Collaboration.
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The LLC seeks to understand “how people work together”
- To observe the relationship between IDEAS and interaction in group work
- To understand how we make meaning and make sense, and make value from our interactions
- To understand how groups can work together to solve problems and create innovation.
Preparing students for work in the 21st century means training in future learning and innovation skills. Particularly in the sciences, we will need to be more specialised yet more collaborative in creating new ideas. Understanding and developing interaction skills are vital.