Audrey Ricke
Indiana University, Indianapolis, United States
Audrey Ricke is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana University, Indianapolis. For six years, Audrey has been active in COIL projects. As the current chair and long-time member of the IU Indianapolis Virtual Exchange Community of Practice, she has partnered with colleagues across disciplines to support the integration of COIL-based virtual exchanges in undergraduate/graduate education. She has presented/co-presented on COIL with her collaborators nationally and internationally at IVEC, the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropology and Education Conference, and the Assessment Institute. Audrey has a PhD in Anthropology; her research within cultural anthropology focuses on the impacts of domestic tourism and identity negotiation through sensory experience, performance, and material culture, particularly in southern Brazil where she partnered and worked with German Brazilian communities. Her pedagogical research has focused on strategies for teaching theory and ethnographic methods, assessment, and the integration of learning technologies.
“COIL enables instructors and learners to collaborate in ways that are not as easily possible in traditional classroom settings, enabling them to co-produce and co-create across disciplines and countries and ultimately expand their understanding of various situations and challenges in the world.”
Project #1 Information
Project Name: UK/US Virtual Anthropology Exchange
Partner: Cathrine Degnen and Sarah Winkler-Reid, Newcastle University (England)
Project Length: Multi-week project; 5 years
Modality: Synchronous & Asynchronous
Technology Tools Utilized: Zoom, CourseNetworking
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Project Summary:
An ethnographic project to help students “think like anthropologists” through conducting online group interviewing together similar to duoethnography and co-analyzing their lived experiences inhabiting “two nations divided by a common language.” This project involved training and practice in interviewing and taking fieldnotes.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop skills in ethnographic methods, particularly online group interviewing, posing follow-up questions, and taking detailed fieldnotes.
- Foster reflexivity and the application of course concepts to better understand one’s own cultural assumptions and the lived experiences of individuals from various backgrounds.
Project #2 Information
Project Name: CESA/IU Indianapolis COIL Exchange
Partner: David Van Der Woude De Vries, Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración (CESA) (Colombia)
Project Length: Multi-week project; 1 semester
Modality: Synchronous
Technology Tools Utilized: Zoom, Microsoft Onedrive
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Project Summary:
CESA and IU Indianapolis undergraduate students co-developed a bank of interview questions for the first phase of a community-based tourism project in Colombia. The goal was to gather local residents’ perspectives.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop cross-cultural communication and planning skills in an international and interdisciplinary context.
- Create open-ended interview questions that take a holistic perspective and align with local contexts to identify next-steps in a proposed tourism project.