Internationalisation of Higher Education

Webinar Topic: Globally Connected Teaching and Learning

Webinar Description:

Have you heard of virtual exchange? Collaborative Online International Learning? Online Intercultural Exchange?  All of these (and more) are variations on an evolving pedagogy that takes advantage of robust, reliable, and ever-more-ubiquitous technologies to connect students from disparate cultures for collaborative learning experiences.  Our panelists represent a wide range of practice and implementation of Globally Connected Teaching and Learning (GTCL), from turnkey operations with proprietary platforms to do-it-yourself, grassroots, faculty-developed projects.  We invite you to join us to hear about the many ways GCTL is bringing students and youth together across cultures.

Webinar Panelists:

• Sarah Guth, President, UNICollaboration (https://www.unicollaboration.org)
• MaryLou Forward, Executive Director, SUNY COIL  Center (http://coil.suny.edu)
• Intidhar Andolsi, Coordinator, Connect Program, Soliya (https://www.soliya.net)
• Julie Hawke, Sharing Perspectives Foundation (https://sharingperspectivesfoundation.com)
• Carine Ullom, Associate Dean, Instructional Innovation, Ottawa University (USA) (bio)

Webinar Access:

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019

Time: 1 PM US Eastern Time (UTC -4)

Access: http://bit.ly/STAR-Webinar7

Cost: None

Registration: Link

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Thank you to all participants and viewers who joined webinar 2018 on Monday 2nd July 2018 with the theme: Internationalisation, the curriculum, and academic support

And thank you to BERA (British Educational Research Association) for supporting this event.

A recording of the webinar is now available on Webinar 2018 page.

Hi everyone

Please find below details of a BERA SIG conference Education: A Global Perspective: International Conference, taking place 22 June -23 June 2017 at the University of Worcester.

Please feel free to pass this on to anyone interested.

BERA SIG Conference flyer – June 2017

Webinar 3 in the webinar series organised by the Journal of International Students (https://jistudents.org/webinar-series/) takes place tomorrow:

Thursday November 17th, 2016
2pm CST/8pm GMT.

We will be talking about Academic services, best practices, and gaps.
Join in here.

Looking forward to the conversation!

We are back! The internationalisation webinar took a long break, but what is better than coming back to such stimulating events as the Webinar Series of the Journal of International Students? Do join the very interesting thought-provoking discussions here:

https://jistudents.org/webinar-series/

All best wishes to everyone for 2016 from the seminar team! See you all next year 🙂

You can watch this event on Webinar 2015 page.

The Internationalisation Webinar is back! The theme this year is Internationalisation and Change.

Topics for presentations and discussion this year are:

• Internationalisation of the Curriculum: a ‘Wicked’ Problem? (Dr Sheila Trahar, Reader in International Higher Education, University of Bristol)
• Internationalisation and Development – Has the internationalisation of UK HE been driven primarily  to sustain UK HE as a globally marketable product? Or have universities adopted intentional approaches that seek to address transnational inequality and justice? (Elizabeth Rider-Grant, Senior Lecturer Work-Based & Placement Learning, Buckinghamshire New University)
• Internationalisation, where are you?: Reflections on experiences and observations regarding the progression of views and practice on internationalisation in the UK University sector (Dr Margarida Dolan, Advisor to the Economics Network)
• Moving towards transformative Intercultural learning: understanding the home student experience of Internationalisation (Caroline Burns, Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes and Spanish, University of Northumbria)

The online discussion will begin at 14:00 (UT+1) on Wednesday 30^th September 2015.

If you are interested in participating, or you have any thoughts regarding the theme you’d like to share, please leave a comment here or email me directly.

Hope to see you all soon!

Joanna

The event is free, and is kindly supported by the British Educational Research Association (BERA)

Dear all

Hope everyone has had a good year and your endeavours in the past year have been successful!

The Internationalisation Seminar 2013 is upgrading to Internationalisation Webinar 2013! The main theme this year is Internationalisation at Home: inclusion and diversity, or a policy issue.

If you are new to webinars, the choice is a way to provide more opportunities to participate from the comfort of your desks and without the hassle of having to be physically there. The presentations will be delivered online and you will have the opportunity to interact using voice, video, or text options.

The discussion aims to  contribute to the on-going debate on internationalisation at home (IaH). It will revolve around how IaH  is interpreted by participants from the point of view of their interests, beliefs, experience or roles. To facilitate the discussion, I would like to propose as a starting point the following:

“the two pillars on which the concept of IaH rested from the beginning: an understanding of internationalisation that went beyond mobility and a strong emphasis on the teaching and learning in a culturally diverse setting.”
(Wächter, 2003:5)*

The discussion will be open to a wide range of areas and issues including research in the area of internationalisation at home, institutional policy, support and advice, teaching all students or international students more specifically, pedagogical issues, foreign languages, English for Academic Purposes (EAP), intercultural communication, information and communication technology (ICT), curriculum design, and any other issue related to this topic.

The Webinar will take place on Monday 23rd September 2013 from 10:00am UK time. This event is free but registration is required and is now open. More information about the programme will be published nearer the time.

If you are interested in participating, or would like to present or lead the discussion on any issue related to the seminar theme, please email me by end of Thursday, August 15th 2013.

If you have any questions, also please do not hesitate to contact me.

With all my best wishes and hope to ‘see’ as many of you as possible in the webinar!

Joanna

*Wächter, B. (2003) An Introduction: Internationalisation at Home in Context. Journal of Studies in International Education, Vol. 7 No. 1, Spring 2003 5-11

Here’s wishing you all a very happy Christmas holidays and all the very best for 2013!

It has been a wonderful year for internationalisation.wordpress.com, and we’re looking forward to another successful year, new adventures and new friendships!