Perth, Australia
Technology like transport, communication and media-based learning have increased our ambitions to make education more global and international. Higher education has gradually felt more affinity towards the exchange of students; Diversity and learning in concentration with different cultures that has settled as road map for the coming decades. Firstly, motivation for international higher education to promote students' mindset towards different cultures, languages and traditions. Secondly, allowing students to learn multi-cultural contexts to anticipate to the later career that involve cooperation in international teams. As inevitable side effect, universities welcome international students as source of income and exchange knowledge and skills. To be more precisely, students will take part of their courses abroad, and at least they should match a similar amount of incoming students in order to play par.
This conference aims at the scientific, pragmatic and policy awareness among scholars who face the direct need to make their curricula more culturally fair. European exchange programs like the Erasmus Mundus, the U.S. Council on International Educational Student Exchange, and the Euro-American "Atlantis" program, they all envisage an urgent agenda on how to balance local with the more global criteria in higher education. This conference helps you to build your networks and international consortia on how to be a key player in this emergent trend.
Though not exclusive, the next topics are welcome for papers, posters, symposia and forums
1. Technologies for spreading learning around the world
2. Higher Education and International student exchange
3. Learning far away from home and close to your future colleagues
4. Learning in multicultural contexts
5. Virtual presence as option for extending the students' learning space
6. Formal and pragmatic obstacles and opportunities in student exchange programs
7. Double- versus joint degrees
8. Funding resources for staff and student exchange
9. How to establish campuses as multicultural communities
10. Coping with incompatibility in semester-, trimester and quarter year course periods
11. Trade-offs between student exchange in the bachelor- versus the master stage?
12. Will English be the default language for master courses around the globe?
13. Does studying abroad imply "living together with local students", or prefer "international student houses"?
14. How to recruit highly talented students abroad?
15. How to defend the yielded higher criterion to the access of regional- and local students?
16. How to evaluate students' readiness for studying abroad?
17. Acculturation: what preliminary intercultural need to be trained before been sent to a study abroad?
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