Meeting demands of International relations from a small college perspective

Per A. Godejord, Dean of Faculty of Scientific Subjects

Internationalisation of higher education

A definition

“Internationalization at the national, sector and institutional levels is defined as the process of integrating an international, intercultural or global dimension into the purpose, functions or delivery of post-secondary education.”

(Jane Knight, Journal of International Higher Education, no. 33, 2003)

Internationalisation of higher education

Different definitions of what internationalisation should entail:

Internationalisation

Quality Mobility Recruitment

Institutionalised strategy

Strengthening of international and multicultural orientation

Internationalisation in the new teacher eduaction of Norway

Quality of education

Attractive partners for cooperation

Cultural understanding and global solidarity

Increased international knowledge, experience and language competence

Challenges of internationalisation at smaller institution• Few courses in English• Few courses that are developed with a view to

attract students from abroad• Low number of academic staff and thereby fewer

who are interested in internationalisation and have the necessary language competence

• Few international projects and international partners

• Low mobility in both academics and students

Solving the challenge with low student mobility

International Online Courses

Prof.dr.hab. Maria Czerepaniak-Walczak,Institute of Pedagogy, Szczecin University

Beata Godejord, PhD,Informatics, Nesna University College

Hallstein Hegerholm,Senior Lecturer Informatics, Nesna University College

Polish

Polish/ Norwegian

Norwegian

ICT and Learning – ITL103 • 55 students• 14 of them are foreign students, mostly from

from Poland but also two Spanish students

The project has the following didactic and research objectives:

1.To integrate Norwegian students (from Nesna University College) and Polish students (from Szczecin and Torun University) to realize a joint e-learning course within the scope of Social Aspects of ICT.2.To work towards formulating the foundation for didactics of cross-cultural education in online setting.3.To investigate communication behaviour of course participants within the patterns of linguistic and non-linguistic modes of communication.4.To obtain an insight into the symbolic culture of digital environment with the focus on participatory mechanisms used to provide information and feedback

The theoretical perspective framing the research is Social Constructionism and Symbolic Interactionism .

The course ITL/ITB103 will be the corner stone of something the parties involved hope will lead to Polish and Norwegian students studying and working together online within a broader range of online courses related to the field of Educational ICT.

Increased international knowledge, experience and language competence

“You can't live in the world today, and you can't do business in the world today, unless you are a global citizen”President Margaret Lee, Oakton Community College (Illinois, USA)