Future of CoP

A strong community of practice plays a key role in the further development of internationalisation within the institution.

Its’ continuation will be facilitated through information sharing sessions, collaboration with other HUB within the university and resource sharing on MS Teams and professionalisation courses, all focused on addressing the questions from and needs of the community itself. In these ways, the roots of internationalisation will become more firmly grounded within RUAS, and its reach will continue to grow.

Internationalisation@home Covid-19 has severely curtailed opportunities for student mobility. However, internationalisation is so much more than physical exchange. The current situation offers an opportunity to take a close look at how international cooperation can continue in a valuable way. But also how internationalisation of education can be made more sustainable and more inclusive; how all students can develop international and intercultural competences, even without or with less mobility. As Beelen & Jones argue, the Internationalisation@home approach involves all students in internationalisation, it is the purposeful integration of international and intercultural dimensions into the formal and informal curriculum for all students within domestic learning environments. By integrating international and intercultural learning outcomes into the curriculum, students develop a global perspective through a variety of teaching and learning activities. Examples include the use of international literature and cases, the use of diversity in the classroom to teach and learn about intercultural competence, and the organisation of informal activities for students to learn more about different cultures and practices. In addition to these approaches, the following digital forms of internationalisation@home deserve attention:

Virtual Exchange (VE) VE is a form of bringing together students from different cultural backgrounds online, supported by lecturers and/or facilitators. With VE students, who do not have the opportunity to physically travel abroad, still get the chance to acquire intercultural competences. There is no fixed method to be used when setting up a Virtual Exchange, but there are a few examples: Collaborative Online International Learning The best-known method is COIL, in which lecturers from one or more partner universities set up a joint online project for their students, and make it an integral part of a module in the curriculum. This does not have to be in the same subject area, because working together at an interdisciplinary level makes it even more interesting. Setting up a COIL project takes a lot of preparation time and requires good communication and cooperation between the different partners. Erasmus + Virtual Exchange Initiative Many tools can be found online when setting up a Virtual Exchange, such as a toolkit and the Virtual Mobility Hub. In addition, there is also support from the Centre of International Affairs of RUAS, You can contact us if you have any questions: · Jessica Shinnick: support in the field of internationalisation and COIL coordinator, support in the field of Virtual Exchange