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Prevailing Trends: How to Engage International Students in AdmissionsMarty Bennett
Hundreds of universities are competing to recruit international students. Yet there’s little known about what drives the decisions of these students. In this session, attendees will gain insights gleaned from three consecutive years of research on the motivations of these students, and will hear firsthand from universities successfully engaging online with students throughout the admissions cycle.
The changing landscape of recruiting and admissions requires constant innovation. This panel will discuss some of the ways that graduate admissions offices are using online tools for recruiting and conversion.
Boundless: Engaging International Students Virtually Throughout the Admission...Marty Bennett
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To increase student engagement, you need to capture your students attention through the three main parts of their high school community: academically, socially, and emotionally. Here's how to do it in 3 easy steps.
Our goal is to ensure that more children find jobs by being academically and socially ready for their first year of college. The "College Ready" High School to College Pipeline program allows colleges and universities to enroll students that have been acculturated to college, both socially and academically. This program will increase their retention and graduation rates, while decreasing the institution's drop-out rates.
Dr. King
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targets for your international student enrollment plans?
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off-line marketing efforts.
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A group of 90 (current count) American colleges have joined together in creating a new online application and tools that will debut this spring. This webinar will provide an overview of the new Coalition Application platform to help high school counselors better understand how this instrument should be used. Our panel discussion will include a range of perspectives and viewpoints about this new instrument and its potential impact on our work with students. We hope you will join us on April 13 for this important topic.
From CLEP credit to online learning, technology-driven innovation is expanding throughout the education marketplace. Have you considered awarding credit for learning that occurs outside the traditional classroom? This presentation describes and evaluates the latest non-traditional credit-bearing programs, including MOOCs. Learn the features, benefits, and challenges of each program and gain insights for implementing strategies that work for students and institutions.
Anya Kamenetz DIYU at the 2011 WASC ARCWASC Senior
Colleges and universities today can no longer afford to conduct business as usual. The pressures of rising costs and ever-stronger mandates for accountability, access and success are too strong. Students, meanwhile, have urgent questions about the return on their investment and the relevance of the education they're receiving in a 21st century context. The way we connect, communicate, and access information is changing every day. When will these changes substantially affect education? Kamenetz addresses all these concerns and sets forth her vision of a future that includes personal learning networks, personalized learning paths, expanded peer learning and assessment, and learning that blends experiential and digital approaches. Faculty and administrators need to lead the way from the second to the "third horizon" of change by incorporating the seeds of future transformation while improving their institutions' working today.
Developing Accessibility Training Strategies in Higher Ed3Play Media
In this webinar, Jennifer Ismirle, Senior User Experience Researcher, and Phillip Deaton, Accessibility Coordinator, from Michigan State University will share how they developed a digital accessibility training program for different types of content and content creators. They will discuss why training is important, as well as share strategies for creating an engaging and successful program.
Understand China's power in the international education landscape.
Read more here: https://www.student.com/blog/chinas-rapid-rise-academic-destination/
Over the past five years, we have had the privilege of witnessing the increasing pace of interest and growth in China as a destination. More people than ever are learning Chinese, visiting China for tourism or business, and studying in China.
The Chinese government has been making concentrated efforts to improve the quality of education in the country and provide nancial support to foreign students.
Whilst Student.com does not currently list accommodation in mainland China, this is a student corridor we predict will increase in importance as student mobility patterns change, grow and adapt. We are excited about the increasing lure of China as a destination for international students.
Currently, most Chinese student accommodation is on campus; however, opportunities exist for more purpose-built student accommodation in China, as GSA’s recent entry into the market demonstrates.
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To increase student engagement, you need to capture your students attention through the three main parts of their high school community: academically, socially, and emotionally. Here's how to do it in 3 easy steps.
Our goal is to ensure that more children find jobs by being academically and socially ready for their first year of college. The "College Ready" High School to College Pipeline program allows colleges and universities to enroll students that have been acculturated to college, both socially and academically. This program will increase their retention and graduation rates, while decreasing the institution's drop-out rates.
Dr. King
Which international markets are now the best recruiting
targets for your international student enrollment plans?
The College Board and Intead present
the latest data available on trends in international student
mobility and how to use the data to inform your digital and
off-line marketing efforts.
Student success is a key concern in the higher ed community. Join this session to learn how Western Governors University (WGU) and Cornell University are tackling student success issues by placing the emphasis on the student experience rather than on back office solutions. WGU will share how they are using predictive analytics to proactively ensure student success not only at the course level, but also in staying on track for graduation. They will also show how they’ve created a Student Community to increase collaboration and foster a culture among distance learners. Cornell will then share its student-first approach to building an engagement platform. It’s social on the front end and ‘big data’ on the back end with the goal of creating a simple and intuitive online experience.
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As part of National Careers Week 2021, the NCSEHE hosted a virtual event on 21 May, showcasing major NCSEHE-commissioned research on key influencers and careers advice for equity students.
More info: https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/careers-week-webinar-careers-student-equity/
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Looking for tools to create a digital outreach and communication plan to reach international students? Check out this session from the NACAC international student recruitment pre-conference institute in Boston 2017.
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Innovative Uses of Technology in International Education
1. Innovative Uses of Technology
in International Education
NAFSA Embassy Dialogue Committee, Spring Workshop
Embassy of Canada, April 28, 2015
2. Speakers
Marty Bennett, Manager of International Partnerships,
CollegeWeekLive
Dr. Bidhan Chandra, Professor
Empire State College, State University of New York
Prof. Kenneth Frankel, President
Canadian Council for the Americas
Victor Betancourt, Executive Director, Center for Global Education
Marymount University
Maya Cohen, National Director of Academic Affairs
Embassy of Israel
3. Reaching Prospective International Students Virtually
• Use of virtual and social media tools in international student recruitment – a brief
history
• Social media – 2005-present
• Online chats – 2006-present
• Virtual college fairs – 2006-present
• Why use these tools?
• Live Where Your Audiences Live – Noel-Levitz/CollegeWeekLive data
• Constrained budgets, limited/no recruitment travel
• Convenience/familiarity
• Current applications in the international student recruitment process
• Social media: FB pages/groups, Twitter profiles, YouTube channels, etc.
• Institutional webinars
• Online chats
• Virtual college fairs
• Admitted student/Yield private events
Changes in the last decade
4. A brief history of virtual recruitment
2006-08 – The Digital Divide
• Only 20% of the world’s population has
regular online connectivity.
• Only 43 countries have an Internet
penetration rate of 50% or more; 226
countries do not.
• In 2008, the Internet will be more frequently
accessed on mobile phones than on PCs
(Personal Computers).
• There are twice as many people using
SMS (TXT) than e-mail.
NAFSA GS-013: Cyber Recruitment 2008
8. Survey Data: About the respondents
Noel-Levitz & CollegeWeekLive 2nd International E-Expectations Report, May 2014
More than 2,400
respondents from
164 countries
15. • Real-time video interaction
between Destination Indiana
institution reps and
EducationUSA advising
centers & their students
• Allows for videos to be shown,
websites, power point
presentations, & simple Q&A
• 1st event in Feb. 2006, 2nd in
Feb. 2007 with centers across
the MENA/Gulf region
• 3rd event March 30th with
AMINEF Jakarta
16. International High Schools & EducationUSA
• Expand awareness and exposure
to over 800 international school
guidance counselors and
EducationUSA advising centers
• Advisers/counselors invite
institutions to chat with their
students and vice versa
• Useful as outreach to areas
institutions do not travel to
regularly and/or …
• As follow-up with schools/centers
where there was high level of
interest
Virtual chats between institutions and advisers/counselors and their students
17. Public Platform at Virtual Fairs
Showcase your institution to
prospective students
• Increase exposure to
prospective students
• Uncover stealth applicants who
may need your services
• Support your institution’s
inbound marketing efforts
• Build stronger relationships
from more frequent
engagement
Broad access to students in multiple markets
18. The most successful platforms are…
Accessible from ALL potential devices used by students, parents, and advisers
19. • Because they cannot visit in person,
meet students where they are
‒ Online, email, mobile
3 Takeaways
• Institutional website review
‒ Does your international content match
international students’ expectations & parents’?
• Know your strengths internationally
‒ What attracts international students to your
institution/organization?
3 Important Takeaways
How to tap into social and virtual tools to reach students overseas
21. https://www.coursera.org/course/imooc
Mastering American eLearning - A systematic review of competencies needed for
international students and working professionals to successfully navigate U.S. virtual
learning and work environments
Embassy Dialogue Committee on Education - Spring Workshop
Washington, DC
April 28, 2015
Presenters
Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin & Dr. Bidhan Chandra
SUNY Empire State College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
bchandra@esc.edu
22. iMOOC Project Team
Dr. Val Chukhlomin, Project Leader & Principal Investigator
Dr. Bidhan Chandra, Co-investigator
Dr. Anant Deshpande, Co-investigator
Dr. Tonka Jokelova, Instructional Designer
Dr. Dana Gliserman-Kopans, Editor
Lorette Calix, Co-investigator
Amy Giaculli, Project Coordinator
Jane Greiner, Instructional Support
John Hughes, Multimedia Expert
Jeannine Mercer, Co-investigator
23. International online learners
in U.S. universities
• 33,561 students from abroad take regular, for-credit
online courses in U.S. universities
(NCES, 2012)
• 886,052 international students are studying in the U.S.
(IIE Open doors, 2013/2014)
• 1/3 of students in the U.S. take at least one online course
(Babson survey, 2014)
• Closely related populations:
– First generation immigrants in U.S. educational institutions
– Working professionals outside of the U.S. employed by U.S. companies.
24. Typical problems (“barriers”)
• Organizational (distance, textbook delivery, costs)
• Technology and distance learning environments
• Language, culture, expected role and behaviors
• Academic systems, classroom structure
• Academic writing, oral communications
• Professional language and contexts
• Self-directed learning, motivation, time management.
Chukhlomin, V., Deshpande, A., & Chandra, B. (2013). Strategies for bridging
cross-cultural barriers for international students’ success in American
asynchronous online degree programs. The South African Journal of Higher
Education, 27(6), pp. 1477-1486.
26. Some highlights
• Length: 6 weeks
• Students: 4,526 from 141 countries
• Original content guides (23 units, 83 elements)
• Videos (85+)
• 27 self-assessments
• Self-reflective final paper (peer assessed)
• Discussion Forum: threads, posts
• Student-generated videos
• Survey and assessment.
27. Primary audiences
1. International (non-U.S.) students residing outside of
the U.S. and studying online at U.S.-based colleges
(universities)
2. International (non-U.S.) professionals residing
outside of the U.S. and working remotely for a U.S.-
based company or organization.
3. Incoming to the U.S. international students
4. U.S.-based working professionals interested in
refining professional skills
159
77
39
43
20
Total: 338
29. Major barriers Some examples of challenges for non-native learners
Technology - Unfamiliar with specific ways of using technology
- Unfamiliar with technical terminology used in U.S.
- Not skilled in communications with U.S.-based
helpdesks and IT personnel
- Not skilled in conducting teleconferences
Language and
Culture
- Not skilled in the use of American English
- Unfamiliar with American idioms, professional slang
- Unfamiliar with American educational and workplace
culture, ways of doing things, expected behaviors
- Cannot adjust easily to the way American classes
function
Communicating
ideas
- Unfamiliar with ways of discussing/debating things
- Not sufficiently skilled in academic writing
- Unaware of academic integrity requirements
- Unaware of the need to use style manuals
- Lack of presentation skills
30. Major barriers Some examples of challenges for non-native learners
Academic
systems
- Unfamiliar with the organization of American education
- Do not know how to use the college intranet
- Not aware of typical classroom roles, expected
behaviors
- Not used to learning independently
- Do not know how to get academic support
Professional
contexts
- Didn’t take required prerequisites
- Unfamiliar with the organization of professional life
- Not experienced in conducting teamwork activities
- Do not know local professional contexts, legislations.
Local contexts - Unaware of local contexts, events, popular themes
Personal
attributes
- Insufficient motivation
- Low self-efficacy (self-belief)
- Not used to self-regulated, active learning
- Close mindedness, low interest to other cultures
- Unable to change.
31.
32. Videos (85+)
• Promotional video
• Informational videos (intro to units, elements)
• Faculty lecture
• Mini-lectures
• Interviews with faculty and experts
• Interviews with students
• Student self-generated content.
33. Organized “satellite” groups
• ESC International Programs (with Jeannine
Mercer)
• SUNY New Paltz (two cohorts with Aiko Pletch)
• EducationUSA and American corners in Indonesia
• EducationUSA: Hong Kong
34.
35. Thank you for attending this session!
The course is still open for enrollment before May 1, 2015
https://www.coursera.org/imooc
For further information, please contact
Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin
valeri.chukhlomin@esc.edu
Dr. Bidhan Chandra
bchandra@esc.edu
37. Training Law Students to be International Transactional Lawyers
– Using an Extended Simulation to Educate Law Students about
Business Transactions, Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law, Vol. 1,
67-87 (2007)
39. Experiential – full semester simulation of a business
transaction
Transactional – representing clients doing business in
the world
International – issues involved in cross-border, cross-
cultural transactions
Collaborative – Two classes at different schools or two
sections in a single school – replicating reality
40. New focus on practical skills: ABA,
California, employers
IBN addresses relevant topics/issues
Changing times create new demand
A full class – ready for adoption
41. US – UK – EU – ME – SA - AF
American/
Dundee
(Scotland)
American/
Hastings
UVA/
Northwestern
American/
Ghent
(Belgium)
American/
Northwestern
Chicago/
Northwestern
Georgetown/
Dundee UVA/
Bucerius
(Germany)
Stanford/
Northwestern
Northwestern/
UCLA
Georgetown/
FGV (Brazil)
Denver/
Golden
Gate
Suffolk/
York
(England)
42.
43. Northwestern class (12 students) will have preparatory
classes on campus
Northwestern students, with faculty, will travel to Israel at
end of May to negotiate face-to-face with class at Tel Aviv
University (12 students) which will also have had
preparatory classes
Week-long intensive, interactive classes and negotiations
in Tel Aviv, combined with touring opportunities and
student interactions
Collaborative, cross-cultural immersion experience – a real
world simulation of international negotiations
44. A class
◦ Replicated in its entirety
◦ Multiple formats
◦ At over 30 law schools
2 of top 5
7 of top 16
9 international
◦ Across the US and internationally
49. Taught by Adjuncts:
◦ Northwestern Stanford Berkeley
◦ Washington and Lee Georgetown Hastings
◦ American UCLA Golden Gate
◦ Ghent (Belgium) Hebrew Univ (Israel) UVA
◦ Western (Canada)
And now . . . Taught by Faculty:
◦ Chicago Dundee (Scotland)
◦ Denver IDC (Israel)
◦ Suffolk Bucerius (Germany)
◦ Boston Univ. FGV (Brazil)
50. Ambassadors from international schools!
◦ Take the class in US
◦ Love the experience
◦ Report to their deans/faculty
◦ Multiple adoptions
51. ◦ Ghent (Belgium)
◦ Bucerius (Germany)
◦ IDC (Israel)
◦ Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio
Vargas (FGV) (Brazil)
◦ Hebrew University (Israel)
◦ Tel Aviv University (Israel)
52. Creating school partnerships
Arranging faculty
Offering facilities
Active monitoring of classes
53.
54. BERKELEY: “[O]ne
of the most valuable
experiences of my law
school career.”
GEORGETOWN:
“[E]xtraordinarily valuable
for aspiring transactional
lawyers, [and] those like
me . . . simply .. .
Interest[ed] in taking a
transactional law course. “
STANFORD:
“Very valuable course
[that] taught me many
things I will be using in
my future career . . . .”
VIRGINIA: “The
most interesting
class I've taken at
any academic
level.”
Student Reactions
57. Marymount University
• Founded: 1950
• Marymount is a comprehensive Catholic university
offering a wide array of undergraduate and
graduate degrees through the Schools of Arts and
Sciences, Business Administration, Education and
Human Services, and the Malek School of Health
Professions.
58. Enrollment (Fall 2014)
• Total enrollment: 3,441
• Total undergraduate students: 2,363
• Total graduate students: 1,078
• Total student population represents 42
states and 66 countries
59. Global Education @ MU
1. Long-Term
• 4-12 Months
• 15-18 Credits
• Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors can participate
• Students typically spend an entire semester or year abroad. Students matched with program/city
based on major, interests, as well as partner university organization offerings.
o Benefits: Greater cultural integration/exposure, enhanced foreign language skills, independence, etc.
2. Short-Term Faculty-Led
• 2-4 Weeks (Typically during the summer)
• 3-6 Credits
• Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors can participate
• Students typically earn credit for 1-2 courses. Some class time may occur before and/or after
travel.
o Benefits: Accessible: cheaper, less of a time commitment for students with jobs, athletes, or no interest
in spending an entire semester abroad. Enhanced teaching and learning experience for faculty and
students alike.
3. Embedded “Global Classroom” Courses
• 7-10 day international field experience embedded in a semester-long course
• 3 credits
• Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors can participate
• Academic content should not be compromised in the event that the international field experience in
cancelled.
o Benefits: Accessible: cheaper, less of a time commitment for students with jobs, athletes, or no interest
in spending an entire semester abroad. Enhanced teaching and learning experience for faculty and
students alike.
60. Globally Networked learning @ MU
SUNY Center for Collaborative Online Learning (CIOL) Institute
for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities
new approach to teaching and learning that brings together geographically
distant instructors and students from different lingua-cultural backgrounds to
communicate and collaborate through the use of online communication tools.
The COIL method promotes interactive shared coursework, emphasizing
experiential learning and gives collaborating students a chance to get to know
each other while developing meaningful projects together.
This broadens and deepens their understanding of course content while
building cross-cultural communicative capacity through academic and
personal engagement with the perspectives of global peers.
61. Globally Networked learning @ MU
“The Global Village” is a partnership between the university’s
Sociology Department and the School of Communication and
Media at the Hanze University of Applied Science in Groningen,
the Netherlands.
Students at both universities work together (through Skype,
online discussion groups, and so forth) to consider what it means
to be members of the global community.
They develop intercultural communication skills and use
advances in communications technology to explore the extent
to which their lives are interconnected.
62. Globally Networked learning @ MU
Opportunities
• Internationalization at home is cost effective relative to
physical exchange
• Preparation for going abroad
• Global workplace skills
• Interdisciplinary learning environment
• Experiential Learning
63. Globally Networked learning @ MU
The challenges
• Technology
• Time zones & time changes & University schedules
• Curriculum (required versus optional)
• Team building in a virtual environment
• Cultural frames of reference influence
• Student motivation
64. Globally Networked learning @ MU
Course design
Photo essay on (one dimension of) globalization in your
assigned neighborhood
Collect community stories about how (economic, political,
cultural or environmental) globalization affected lives in this
neighborhood
- What would a Global Village look like?
- How could your community embrace the idea of a global
village?
Individual blogs - reflection on course experiences
66. Thank you!
Maya Cohen, National Director of Academic Affairs,
Embassy of Israel
Academic@washington.mfa.gov.il
Editor's Notes
Noel-Levitz and CollegeWeekLive Surveyed prospective undergraduate and graduate international students
Noel-Levitz and CollegeWeekLive received 2,451 completed surveys from prospective students. The respondents came from 164 countries from the following regions:
In a change from the 2013 study of international students, 2 which focused just on those interested in undergraduate study, this study looked at prospective undergraduate and graduate students.
This figure is below what college bound American high school students said in the 2013 E-Expectations study— 43 percent reported using their mobile devices “all the time” to access the web.
However, 28 percent figure for mobile among international students has risen dramatically from the 17 percent figure when this question was asked in the 2013 international student study.
Furthermore, six out of every ten international respondents said they had looked at a university website using a mobile device.
International students in this year’s study used Android phones most frequently to access college sites, a significant change from the 2013 results where 29 percent said they used an iPhone and 22 percent reported an Android device.
Both the 2013 and 2014 results showed that, according to respondents, not many international students report using tablets to visit college websites. Given that, campuses should make sure they are using adaptive display technology or mobile sites to accommodate the smaller screens of smartphone users.
Only one quarter of international students said they definitely planned to visit a campus before applying, with responses from undergraduate and graduate students responding very similarly.
While nearly half said they would visit at least their top campuses after acceptance, one-fifth of all students said they would not do so—an increase from the 14 percent in the 2013 study who said they would not visit any campuses.
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