Allison Witt

Allison Witt is the Director of International Programs in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she teaches Global Studies in Education and is the Program Leader for the International Education Administration and Leadership program. Allison is a former Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Illinois Board of Higher Education where she contributed to state higher education policy in Illinois. She is the author of Shifting Tides in Global Higher Education (2011) published by Peter Lang. Allison earned a PhD in Education Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has worked in international education for over 20 years, now with particular interest in internationalizing teacher education.

Publications

Creating Boundary Spaces Through Virtual Global Engagement: Training Preservice Teachers in Virtual Collaboration
Creating Boundary Spaces Through Virtual Global Engagement: Training Preservice Teachers in Virtual Collaboration
Allison Witt, Lu Xu, Aigul Rakisheva, Sadia Mazid. © 2024. 16 pages.
This chapter explores the theoretical foundation as well as the practice of one model of virtual global engagement for preservice teachers, IGlobal. A virtual, global...