Debate, Diversity, and Adult Learners: The Experiences of Foreign Nationals in the U.S. State Department

Globalizing online learning: Exploring culture, corporate social responsibility, and domestic violence in an international classroom

“…Subsequent discussion of content items produced a great deal of informed contributions from students from both countries. The success of the collaboration should not be wholly surprising, as heterogeneous learning groups composed of multiple cultures have consistently been shown to improve student outcomes (Benton, 2012). The challenge for educators, particularly those working with collaborative online modules, will be to ensure that cultural needs of all groups are reflected in the module’s construction.…”

Competitive Debate as Innovation in Gamification and Training for Adult Learners: A Conceptual Analysis

“…Regarding debate applications, in addition to the extra-academic competitive school and University debate tournaments, academic application is given as a teaching and learning method (Mitchell, 1998 ; Roy and Macchiette, 2005 ; Yasuko, 2003 ; Takanokura and Hayashi, 2008 ; Algarra, 2015 ; Merrell et al, 2017 ; Sapitri, 2017 ; Galiano-Coronil et al, 2018 ). In the professional field and as far as is covered by the bibliographical survey, we have evidence only of the experience of Benton ( 2012 ). This would be a clear example of gamification according to our criteria here.…”

“…An experimental design platform could be configured, and an analysis of the debate model implementation in business training could be performed, with the specific aim of teaching communication abilities and problem-solving skills. In this research, two dimensions would be measured—on the one hand the evaluation, via a questionnaire, of the participant's own experience, and on the other an evaluation of their learning in communication skills, by using external evaluators, who would observe the scope of the learning according to a previously-validated tool, much as Benton ( 2012 ) requires in his work on debate, diversity, and adult education.…”

Competitive Debate: A Successful Inter-team Gamification Experience in the Human Resources Subject

“…Up-to-the-moment questions, such as if debate is a valid communication skills training technique or valid to teach certain knowledge, have been researched on the educational environment especially in higher education (Reverter, 2018). As far as our bibliographic search shows, the only experience of debate with professionals was conducted by a group trained in communication skills from the State Department of the United States of America (Benton, 2015). These results only measured participants learning sensation.…”

“…Benton's experience (Benton, 2015) was the only available use of debate for professional training purposes found in our search. In his research, performed at the State Department of the United States of America, debate was used as a training tool for communication skills with department workers.…”