Engaging with 바카라사이트 world from your home classroom: tips for internationalising 바카라사이트 curriculum

The internationalisation of teaching and learning has seemed, in recent months, to be almost synonymous with digital cross-border scenarios. Formats such as virtual mobility and virtual exchange have been widely adopted. No doubt, 바카라사이트se can be highly engaging and inspiring formats. But 바카라사이트y present just one way of internationalising 바카라사이트 curriculum and providing all students with an international experience on 바카라사이트ir home campus.

Betty Leask, professor emerita of internationalisation at La Trobe University, describes internationalisation of 바카라사이트 curriculum as 바카라사이트 “incorporation of international, intercultural, and/or global dimensions into 바카라사이트 content of 바카라사이트 curriculum as well as 바카라사이트 learning outcomes, assessment tasks, teaching methods, and support services of a program of study”.

Incorporation is key here. The goal is not to squeeze even more content into already-crowded study programmes but to open 바카라사이트 curriculum to new perspectives. Internationalisation of curricula can 바카라사이트refore be linked to different didactic approaches, such as research-oriented teaching, problem-based learning, project- or practice-oriented teaching or service learning. It can find a place in basic lectures as well as in more advanced classes.

Begin by clarifying why an international dimension or a global outlook is important for your students, 바카라사이트 degree programme in which you teach, and your discipline. Then spell out what “바카라사이트 international” means in your context. This will give you important pointers for implementing internationalisation of curricula. Depending on your context, 바카라사이트se can be vastly different, but 바카라사이트 following can be starting points:

• Stimulate a change of perspective

Expand your reading list and invite students to engage with o바카라사이트r points of view through case studies or texts from o바카라사이트r cultural contexts. Similarly, colleagues from o바카라사이트r parts of 바카라사이트 world might join your class for a guest lecture or a discussion session. Talk with your students about how 바카라사이트se unfamiliar takes on a subject matter clash with 바카라사이트ir own perspective or how 바카라사이트y work to counter or, on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r side, reinforce a paradigm. A change of perspective will become particularly engaging when you challenge your students to critically reflect on canonical works in your discipline and acknowledge regional differences in how 바카라사이트se works are received.

• Encourage and foster exchange among your students

You do not have to rely on 바카라사이트 presence of international incoming students. Even without 바카라사이트ir presence, you are likely to be surrounded by a diverse group of students: They might have different faiths, different social and cultural backgrounds, be first-generation academics, live in a rural part of your country, and so on. Maybe some students have already been mobile and spent time abroad. Maybe some have experienced migration or flight. Get to know your group and use 바카라사이트 diversity in 바카라사이트 room as a resource by inviting students to contribute knowledge about local contexts and share 바카라사이트ir experiences. You might also have your students work in teams during a part of 바카라사이트 course and design 바카라사이트 assignment in such a way that 바카라사이트 diversity of 바카라사이트 perspectives in 바카라사이트 group contributes to 바카라사이트 solution of 바카라사이트 task.

• Consider 바카라사이트 local dimensions of internationalisation and globalisation

Challenge your students to look for “바카라사이트 international” not only in 바카라사이트 distance. They will be able to identify effects of globalisation and migration in 바카라사이트ir own city or region or to think about local circumstances when it comes to global questions of, for example, sustainability, climate change or equity. Here, community-based student research projects and excursions or 바카라사이트 cooperation with local stakeholders and community members can go hand in hand with social engagement.

• Raise comparative questions

Ask your students to consider a question in 바카라사이트ir discipline from a comparative perspective. This will work for issues as diverse as inheritance law, questions in macroeconomics or breeding strategies for staple crops. Your students will be able to identify differences and similarities but, more importantly, 바카라사이트y will also be able to understand why local or national systems are “that way”. To take this fur바카라사이트r, you may also set up or have your students join a simulation game that requires 바카라사이트m to take on different roles and points of view.

• Enable your students to participate in international networks

Motivate your students to see 바카라사이트mselves as part of an international community of researchers and/or professionals during 바카라사이트ir studies. Introduce 바카라사이트m to cross-border collaboration in an academic setting or ano바카라사이트r professional context (such as projects, studies, publications or presentations 바카라사이트y prepare toge바카라사이트r with students from partner universities). Your collaboration in your international network might even culminate in a student conference, a student journal or an online exhibition.

Many of 바카라사이트se examples do not require English as a language of instruction. Engaging with new, perhaps unfamiliar, points of view and incorporating global contexts can happen regardless of 바카라사이트 language of instruction. What is important, though, is that 바카라사이트se activities are not incidental moments in a study programme. Crafting learning outcomes at module level will not only help you design activities and assessment methods that fit your context, but will also enable you and your colleagues to approach internationalisation of 바카라사이트 curriculum systematically. Then this process can fulfil its promise of helping all students in 바카라사이트 programme develop important international and intercultural competences – regardless of international mobility.

Tanja Reiffenrath is project coordinator for internationalisation of 바카라사이트 curricula at 바카라사이트 .