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Coker, Jeffrey Scott; Porter, Desiree Jasmine – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
Several years ago, Elon University set out to better understand experiential learning on campus. At the time, there was a pragmatic need to collect data that would inform revisions to the core curriculum, including an experiential-learning requirement (ELR) that had been in place since 1994. The question was whether it made sense to raise the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Best Practices, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Goldoni, Federica – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
This study is situated in the fields of language education, study abroad (SA) and intercultural communication. The interest in SA is increasing on the part of students, administrators, educators, and business companies for the learning opportunities that it offers. However, SA students are not always prepared to maximize their learning…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Chengbo; Li, Xiaomei; Ou, Xuan; O'Kane, James; Mao, Zhaofang; Zhang, Wenquan – Higher Education Quarterly, 2015
Chinese students are the largest international student cohort in the higher education institutions of English-speaking developed countries. The paper explores strategies to enhance the Chinese students' learning efficacy in overseas institutions. This research differs from other research focusing on international students already in…
Descriptors: Asians, Learning Experience, Study Abroad, Management Development
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Kalevitch, Maria; Maurer, Cheryl; Badger, Paul; Holdan, Greg; Sirinterlikci, Arif – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2015
The School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science (SEMS) at Robert Morris University (RMU) was awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund scholarships to 21 academically talented but financially challenged students majoring in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Each…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering Education, Grants, Scholarships
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Hicks, Travis L.; Radtke, Rebekah Ison – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
Community-driven design is a current movement in the forefront of many designers' practices and on university campuses in design programs. The authors examine work from their respective public state universities' design programs as examples of best practices. In these case studies, the authors share experiences using community-based design…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
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Stanislavovna, Vershinina Tatiana; Leopoldovna, Kocheva Olga – International Education Studies, 2015
The contemporary life is characterized by various ways and forms of communication, sometimes but not always successful and leading to conflict situations. When a man occurs in the environment, alien to him, he meets misunderstanding and is overwhelmed with incomprehensible emotions as if he were covered with an avalanche. He has to solve problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Russian
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Fattal, Laura; Alon, Sandra – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2018
Global awareness is discussed through the experiential learning of six teacher candidates and six teachers on a Fulbright-Hays study abroad program to Israel. The participants focused their learning on four key aspects of global education; multilingual communication -- to enhance a world view, historical layering -- to understand the peripheries…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Preservice Teachers
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Stimulated by studies on South Korean students' early and later-on study abroad and Japanese companies' practice of hiring monolingual college students, the present literature-based discussion advances the knowledge of commonalities and distinctiveness between the two nations that manifest in either a textbook-case or a non-linear relationship…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Personnel Selection, Social Differences, English (Second Language)
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Johnson, Laura R.; Seifen-Adkins, Tanja; Sandhu, Daya Singh; Arbles, Nadezda; Makino, Hitomi – Journal of International Students, 2018
International students in the United States face acculturative stress, yet few seek counseling. In this paper, we highlight a participatory approach to develop culturally and contextually competent programs to enhance international student adjustment and engagement. We combined findings from the Acculturative Stress Scale of International Students…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Participatory Research, Acculturation, Stress Variables
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Biasini, Rosalba – Research-publishing.net, 2018
According to the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) framework for digital capabilities (JISC, 2013), Information Communication Technology (ICT) proficiency is only one of the elements necessary to equip Higher Education (HE) students to fully engage with today's digital world. On its own, however, it is not enough. As ICT users, students…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Information Systems
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Gyenes, Adam – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2016
Internationalization has become an important strategy for many Japanese universities as they face falling enrollments. While some have successfully attracted students from overseas, others seek different means by which to promote their international appeal, primarily as an attractor of domestic applicants. One way that this is highly visible is in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Campuses, Global Approach, Ethnography
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Niehaus, Elizabeth; Rivera, Mark – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between students' religiousness and participation in alternative breaks (ABs) using both survey and interview data from the National Survey of Alternative Breaks. Findings from this mixed methods study demonstrate the potential for ABs to facilitate religiousness and help students connect…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Surveys, Interviews
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Ramirez R., Enrique – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2016
The purpose of this study is to assess how studying abroad impacts the development of intercultural competence and the moderating role of student's personality. This research uses a pre-post design with a sample of 264 undergraduate students from four Colombian universities; it includes a group of students who participated in a one semester…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Interpersonal Competence, Study Abroad, Personality
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Ramakrishna, Hindupur; Sarkar, Avijit; Vijayaraman, Bindiganavale – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2016
Study-abroad programs have played a significant role in globalization of business curricula over the years. Short-term study-abroad programs (STSAPs) are proliferating in business schools and provide a viable alternative of studying abroad to students who are unable to participate in programs of longer durations due to disruption in family, work,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Business Schools, Questionnaires, College Faculty
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Holmes, Prue; Bavieri, Luisa; Ganassin, Sara; Murphy, Jonathon – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This study investigated how a "while abroad" (IEREST) intercultural experiential learning programme (i) encouraged mobile student sojourners to explore the concept of "interculturality"; (ii) promoted their intercultural engagement/communication during their stay abroad; and (iii) invited them to reflect on their own…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Learning Experience, Student Mobility, Questionnaires
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