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McMurtrie, Beth – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The numbers of U.S. students traveling abroad to study continued to grow in 2005, increasing 8.5 percent over the previous year, with much of the expansion taking place in such nontraditional destinations as China, Ecuador, and Argentina. According to the Institute of International Education, which tracks the figures in its annual "Open Doors"…
Descriptors: International Education, International Educational Exchange, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
As American manufacturing moves increasingly overseas and immense growth is forecast in modernizing countries like India and China, engineers need to understand those cultures before designing products for them, say supporters of international-engineering programs. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which accredits…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Engineering Education, Study Abroad, International Studies
Moseley, William – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2009
While study abroad is increasingly popular among students in the United States (IIE 2007), tenure track faculty involvement with these programs has not kept up with demand. University and college-run programs often struggle to find sufficient numbers of tenure track faculty, especially junior faculty, to staff their programs. While older faculty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty
Leal Filho, Walter, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2011
It is widely acknowledged that sustainable development is a long-term goal, which both individuals and institutions (and countries!) need to pursue. This important theme is characterized by an intrinsic complexity, since it encompasses ecological or environmental considerations on the one hand, and economic matters, social influences and political…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Architectural Education, Higher Education, Environmental Education
Patricia Chow; Rajika Bhandari – Institute of International Education, 2011
"Open Doors" is a comprehensive information resource on the 723,277 international students in the United States in 2010/11 and on the 270,604 U.S. students who studied abroad for academic credit in 2009/10. The Institute of International Education (IIE), one of the largest and most experienced higher education exchange agencies in the…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, English (Second Language)
Iuspa, Flavia Eleonora – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine a Higher Education Institution's (HEI) process of internationalization. The theoretical model developed by Van Dijk and Miejer (1997) was used to review Florida International University (FIU)'s policy, support, and implementation dimensions and determine its position on the Internationalization Cube, and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, International Education, Study Abroad
Neuendorf, Jill A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study of L-2 Russian interlanguage production examined the salience of phonetic, lexical and syntactical features for L-1 listener intelligibility, based on L-2 recitation of written scripts (Part I) and also unrehearsed speech (Part II). Part III of the study investigated strategies used by native-speaking teachers of Russian as a Second…
Descriptors: Syntax, Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Dictionaries
Blessing, Charlotte; Rayner, Elise; Kreutzer, Kim – Forum on Education Abroad, 2010
In October/November 2009, the Forum on Education Abroad conducted its third State of the Field Survey. This survey provides an annual or biannual assessment of key education abroad issues and topics of interest to Forum members and the field of education abroad at large. Previous State of the Field surveys were conducted in 2006 and 2008. The 2009…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, International Education, Program Costs, Higher Education
Liu, Jack Jinghui – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2010
This article describes a model that integrates an at-home preparation intensive summer program with a short-term, study abroad summer program to increase students' Chinese-language proficiency, cultural awareness, and personal career development. The results indicate that the at-home preparation program can build students' self-esteem and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Cultural Awareness, Program Descriptions, Second Language Instruction
Harrison, J. Kline; Voelker, Elizabeth – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2008
This research investigated the cross-cultural adjustment of study abroad students and the associated impact of two personality variables--(1) emotional intelligence (EI) and entrepreneurial attitude orientation (EAO). This study was conducted among undergraduate sojourners from a small, private university in the southeastern United States. A…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Private Colleges, Personality Traits, Measures (Individuals)
Young, Denise Y. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore the association between persistence at the University of Dallas, a private liberal arts university, and participation in a study abroad program. Students who participate in the study abroad program at the University of Dallas spend one semester (typically during the sophomore year) at the Rome campus of the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Core Curriculum, Western Civilization, Academic Persistence
Santanello, Cathy; Wolff, Laura – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2008
One faces several challenges when designing an education abroad program. These include engaging non-traditional majors in study abroad experiences; facilitating learning activities that directly align with the learning goals of the courses; assessing specific learning outcomes; and finding ways to close the circle after the study abroad programs…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Lifelong Learning
Elola, Idoia; Oskoz, Ana – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
An essential instructional goal in foreign language education is the enhancement of students' intercultural competence. This article reports on a study that examined how intercultural competence developed between study abroad and at home students (in Spain and the United States, respectively) who used blogs as a mediating tool over the course of a…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Second Language Learning, Guidelines
Gisevius, Annette; Weber, Robin A. – Intercultural Education, 2009
The Transatlantic Orientation Exchange/Multiplikatorenschulung im transatlan-tischen Austausch is a collaboration between volunteers and staff in both the US and German AFS organizations. The goal of the project is to increase the level of intercultural learning of German and US secondary education exchange participants and their host families.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, German, Volunteers
Duperron, Lucile; Overstreet, Mark H. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2009
Study abroad (SA) is one of the flagship offerings among United States higher education institutions. Approximately 220,000 students studied abroad in the 2005/2006 academic year, 52.8% of whom studied on programs that lasted eight weeks or less. The effect of these short-term programs on second language development has been little investigated,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Prior Learning