Educating for Internationalisation and Global Engagement

This course is primarily aimed at teachers who teach or intend to teach in higher education. It is based on the remit of internationalisation as an aspect of quality within higher education. The course provides a basis both for work in the international classroom and for internationalisation at home.

During a part of the course you have the opportunity to experience a real Collaboration Online International Learning (COIL) project between Malmö University and Michigan State University where you collaborate, virtually meet and discuss with students (in Adult Learning) in USA.

Discussion during the course, in the COIL project as well as the remaining time, centres on the significance of the internationalisation of higher education and how this can be translated into teaching practice. Various aspects of

internationalisation in higher education are addressed, such as:

• The added value of internationalisation?

• Internationalisation at home

• Meeting with the international classroom and teaching in another language

• The diversification of literature and examples outside one's own national context and the

Western world

• The utilisation of one’s own international experiences in education as well as those of other

students.

• The raising of awareness and discussion of goals and purpose within higher education and

different educational cultures