New handbook of international higher education
This summer the SAGE Handbook of International Higher Education was published. The handbook, which Nuffic experts have contributed to, offers new strategies for further development and expansion of internationalisation in higher education.
The SAGE Handbook brings together leading experts from around the world to illustrate the increasing importance of internationalisation. It also covers the broad range of internationalisation of higher education with all its aspects and regional impacts.
Five sections
The handbook comprises five sections:
- internationalisation of higher education in a conceptual and historic context;
- different thematic approaches to internationalisation;
- internationalisation of the curriculum, teaching and learning process, and intercultural competencies;
- the broad dimension of internationalisation and the mobility of students, scholars, institutions, and projects;
- regional trends in international education and direction for the future of internationalisation in the 21st century.
Outcomes of internationalisation
The chapter on the assessment of outcomes in the internationalisation of higher education was written by Darla Deardorff of Duke University in the US and Adinda van Gaalen of Nuffic.
This chapter explores practical suggestions for implementing the assessment of outcomes in international education. What should administrators know about assessing the impact of internationalisation on learning outcomes and the impact on the quality of education? The chapter includes specific examples of assessment efforts in Japan, South Africa, and the Netherlands and Flanders.
International classroom
The chapter on leveraging technology and the international classroom for cross-cultural learning was written by Jane Edwards of Yale University in the US and Hanneke Teekens of Nuffic.
It discusses trends and developments in teaching in the international classroom. Issues that arise in all parts of the world include how to deal with the intercultural aspects of teaching and learning. Language and technology pose new demands and the impact of actual mobility and virtual mobility creates new communities in academia.