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Pankhuri Aggarwal; Erica Szkody; Eleni Kapoulea; Katharine Daniel; Kirsten Bootes; Jennifer Boland; Jason Washburn; Amy Peterman – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to examine the unique lived experiences of international graduate students in light of COVID-19 and the recent sociopolitical climate in the USA (e.g. Black Lives Matter movement, protests against anti-Asian hate crimes and gun violence). Design/methodology/approach: The authors used an exploratory qualitative design…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Experience, Graduate Students, COVID-19
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Jung, Julia; Jahnke, Isa; Deprez, Tim – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
There are a handful of programmes in higher education that offer students a "joint" international study programme and research shows that students have certain levels of anxiety when starting studying in such graduate programmes. This study aimed to explore levels of student anxiety and investigates the prerequisite skills in order to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Masters Programs
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Hjelsvold, Rune; Mishra, Deepti – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
Global software engineering (GSE) courses traditionally require cooperation between at least two universities so as to provide a distributed development environment to the students. In this study, we explore an alternative way to organize a global software engineering course where students work on open source software development (OSSD) projects…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Computer Software, Computer Science Education, Course Organization
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Loynes, Chris; Gurholt, Kirsti Pedersen – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
An international two-year Erasmus Mundus MA, Transcultural European Outdoor Studies (TEOS), uses the journey as a central metaphorical concept, the "peregrinatio academica", and experiential pedagogy. Students study human nature interactions through the lens of outdoor education and recreation while travelling for a semester at a time in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Experience, Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries
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Smith, Heidi A.; Segbers, Teresa – Journal of Experiential Education, 2018
Background: Higher education outdoor studies programs retain a critical interest in student experiences as they seek to prepare citizens in a globalized, yet simultaneously neo-nationalist, world. Purpose: This research explored the impact of transculturality on the student experience of outdoor studies in the Transcultural European Outdoor…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Outdoor Education, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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Smeby, Jens-Christian – Teaching in Higher Education, 2002
Surveyed and interviewed Norwegian graduate students to determine if being attached to a professor's research project improves the effectiveness of the learning experience--for example, contact with supervisors and other students, and time to degree. Found a positive effect across all field of study, although differences in project organization…
Descriptors: Faculty Advisers, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Higher Education