Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

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Is a Bologna Process Right for Latin America?

One of the most influential educational trends of the two last decades involves initiatives to con­struct common spaces of tertiary education. These projects—such as the Bologna Process and its core objective, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)—focus mainly on tertiary education, the
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The U.S. Community College and the Law of the Retarding Lead

The law of the retarding lead is used by political scientists, economists, and anthropologists to describe the phenomenon by which the best-adapted and most successful societies have the greatest difficulty in changing and retaining their lead in a period of transition. Conversely, societies
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Global Learning Rubric

Developed from the 2013 NAFSA Annual Conference session, Defining Global Learning and Aligning Curricular Pathways presented by Kevin Hovland, AACU, the Global Learning Rubric offers a common vocabulary for defining global learning and for identifying the kinds of skills and knowledge associated
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What do MOOCs mean for Internationalization?

Just as it's hard imagine what life was like before the Internet, after 2012's breakout year for Coursera, Edx, and Udacity among others, it's hard to speak about higher education without mention of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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Collegial Conversations

Throughout the year, NAFSA works with numerous experienced international educators to conduct live, online chats. These conversations are free of charge and generally last one hour.
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