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UCLL Presentation, March 2016
Opportunities for "Virtual internationalisation" on our taught
programmes – implications for curriculum design
Jo Peat, PICASA Project, University of Roehampton
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PICASA Project (Promoting Internationalisation through Cultural & Structural Adaptations)
• PICASA is funded by the European Union’s Tempus Programme
• Roehampton is responsible for making recommendations about curriculum revisions to existing programmes
• We are working with 20 universities in Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium (UCLL), Georgia, Italy and Ukraine. Roehampton is also independently working with 20 higher education institutions in Kerala, India
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What is Roehampton’s focus?
• We are writing policy and strategy documents on internationalisation, and trialling innovative methods
• Looking at the financial and social implications of sending students and faculty overseas for extended stays
• Thinking about more cost effective and sustainable alternatives
• Reflecting on our own taught programmes and internationalisation policies to see if we could make some changes to the way that we think about “internationalisation”
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Background?
• More than 5,000,000 students enrolled in overseas universities
• Most popular countries to visit are USA (16.5%) UK, (13%), Germany (6.3%), France (6.2%) and Australia 6.1% (Maslen, 2014)
• How many of your students and faculty would love to learn more about international issues and research, BUT.... do not have the funds, the time or the language skills to travel away from home?
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The challenge of offering an international university experience is proving to be an expensive and time-consuming business for many institutions of higher education.
Some faculty and students are simply unable to commit to travelling abroad for reasons such as inadequate finance, family commitments or health/ disability issues (Crowther, Joris, Otten, Nilsson, Teekens & Wächter, 2000).
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The adoption of practices such as “internationalisation at home” (Crowther, Joris, Otten, Nilsson, Teekens & Wächter, 2000) or “virtual internationalisation” (Middlemas & Peat, 2015) can therefore offer institutions a viable alternative to expensive and lengthy overseas visits (European Commission, 2014).
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Internationalisation at Home (I@H)
(Michael Joris et al, Leuven Limberg 2013)
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Where does “virtual internationalisation” fit in?
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Another way of working?
Virtual internationalisation– Making the most of everyday technologies to
support collaborative and international ways of working
– Informal arrangements or credit bearing courses
– Opportunities for asynchronous engagement, not always restricted to a certain time slot
– Enables students and staff to develop international skills of employability, languages, social communication, diplomacy and collaboration, geo-political awareness
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‘Virtual internationalisation’ and the undergraduate curriculum in UK and
overseas universities (Middlemas & Peat, 2015)
• We define virtual internationalisation as a flexible learning and teaching approach that makes the most of everyday web-based technologies to support the achievement of international learning outcomes on taught programmes.
• Virtual internationalisation can be formally embedded in a credit bearing course, or can simply be an informal arrangement between two geographically remote course teams.
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Virtual internationalisation?
• The timing may be asynchronous, or at a pre-agreed time.
• The aim is to enable students and staff to develop a more in-depth understanding of their discipline and profession from an international perspective, through engaging in discussions, webinars, presentations, design activities or virtual conferences.
• Paper at: http://jpaap.napier.ac.uk/index.php/JPAAP/article/view/195
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Some examples from our research
• Physiotherapy
• Civil engineering
• Biomedical science
• Journalism and television studies
• 2 examples of whole university approaches
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Example 1 - Christchurch Canterbury • BSc Physiotherapy programme
• Informal approach working with physiotherapy programme in South Africa
• Skype meetings to share patient case studies
• Student-to-student case presentations
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• Very different medical conditions, different populations, so students can learn about a wider range of clinical scenarios and socio-medical challenges
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Example 2 - Loughborough, Coventry (UK) and Ryerson Universities (Canada)
• Co-validated modules for BSc Civil Engineering students
• http://bim-hub.lboro.ac.uk/resources/mini-case-studies/
• Students work together over several months, by phone and also by using interactive conferencing software
• They also work off line, carefully planning each meeting and managing the tasks for their joint assignment
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Example 3 - University of Roehampton
• MRes / PhD Biomedical Science students working collaboratively UK-India
• Using Twitter to share articles, research news and careers ideas
• Students and faculty contribute to discussions
• 6 weeks, 6 students, discussing their PhD research subject areas
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Virtual 3 Minute Thesis #3MT
• University of Roehampton, London and University of Kerala, India
• Moodle to share photos, papers and other resources; Skype for discussions; Twitter for sharing research
• An effective way for students in very different
settings to gain a
more international
perspective on
their subject areas
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Example 4 –University of East Anglia, UK
• Set up a Twitter account for some modules
• Encourage students to share examples from their own countries and diverse UK cultures
• Develop employability and IT literacy skills
• One interesting example is “Muslim women in the Media”. Students have to carry out research with journalism students from Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, to share ideas and gather examples for their projects....
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Eylem Atakav, University of East Anglia, UK
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5. University of Sheffield, UK• Students from similar
disciplines have paired up with the student union at the Islamic University of Gaza
• Share ideas on different topics every week for 5 weeks
• Great idea for learning more about international politics / religion / cultural differences / social customs etc
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University of Sheffield• 5 weekly sessions on offer
• Using skype to connect
• Session 1 – introductions
• Sessions 2,3, and 4: themed discussions
• Session 5 farewell, and a “virtual dinner party”
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6. Warwick University, UK
• Online intercultural exchange
• UK-France
• Virtual exchange
• 1000 students participate every year
• Publish papers, organise poster sessions
• Focus on “skills acquisition for today’s global graduate”
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Where could you include any of these ideas in your own curriculum?
• Guest lectures on Skype?
• Student to student discussions on a set topic?
• Joint projects or co-validated modules?
• Research tasks ( e.g. for a literature review) with an international partner?
• Virtual field trip or research visit?
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Curriculum Planning ACTIVITY• You can use our curriculum planning tool to test
out some ideas…
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Have a look at our other handouts too...
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Thanks for listening!
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