After my first “COVID edition” virtual short-course showed that it could be done (hosted by Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología for students in Peru), I selected another location where I previously had a well-organized in-person teaching experience with a dedicated and suitable audience: The Philippines. In 2018, De La Salle…

I had a busy and exciting travel-teaching schedule planned for this summer: short-courses and workshops at Universidad de las Americas in Ecuador, Javeriana University in Colombia, the Asian Institute of Technology & Management in Nepal, and an unprecedented third visit to the Royal University College of Science & Technology in…

To take advantage of a short gap between my visit to Kazakhstan and the start of Stanford’s academic year, I initially planned to add a few days of teaching in Turkey on the way home. When those arrangements fell through, my host in Kazakhstan suggested I visit their neighbor country…

Kazakhstan is still considered by some to be a developing country, but you wouldn’t know it from the capital city. I was surprised to find ultra-modern buildings, sports arenas, and monuments — some by famous architects. And the building spree isn’t finished; cranes are everywhere. The lavish attention and rapid…

I’ve visited Bosnia and Herzegovina once before, just a couple of years ago on a family trip. We spent most of our time in the mountains, though we did stop in the main cities, including Sarajevo. …

Following my return visit to Bhutan, it was a short hop to Delhi, India for a four-day Big Data short-course at Ashoka University. Technically India was also a return visit — Hyderabad and Chennai were early stops in the odyssey. …

Although my sabbatical is in the distant past now, I periodically sneak away from the dean’s office to indulge my hobby of teaching short-courses in developing countries. Having taught in 18 different countries to date, I made a first return visit, to one of my favorites: Bhutan. When I visited…

Almost 20 years ago, Patrick Awuah was rising the ranks at Microsoft when he decided to return to his home country of Ghana. Influenced by his undergraduate years at Swarthmore (and with an MBA from Berkeley under his belt), Patrick set out to create sub-Saharan Africa’s first liberal arts university…

Around the time I launched the instructional odyssey back in the summer of 2016, I received a persuasive invitation from De La Salle University in Manila. I wasn’t able to fit the Philippines into my Asia schedule at the time, but I’m glad I finally got there. …