Enhancing Quality in Transnational Higher Education: Experiences of Teaching and Learning in Australian Offshore Programs

Anne Chapman; David Pyvis

doi:10.5771/9780739167922

Summary

Enhancing Quality in Transnational Higher Education explores issues and questions concerning the provision of quality teaching and learning in university programs delivered ‘offshore’. The focus of the book is on what makes for a good and successful education in the context of transnational programs of Australian universities. The book traces research by the authors into the ‘lived experiences’ of teachers and learners engaged in Australian transnational education across a broad range of universities, locations, programs and models of delivery.

The enormous trend towards the delivery of university programs across national borders is compelling evidence of the internationalization of higher education in the 21st century. Universities worldwide are challenged to provide quality assurance for this new kind of education. For universities, this book offers principles to enhance existing frameworks for assuring the quality of learning and teaching in university offshore education programs. The book will also be of particular interest to academics of higher education institutions who are involved in the policy and practice of transnational education.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2012
Copyright Year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-6791-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-6792-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 144
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1 Culture Shock for the Offshore Learner No access
2. 2 Dilemmas in Forming Student Identity in the Transnational Context No access
3. 3 Why University Students Choose Transnational Education No access
4. 4 Quality, Identity, and Practice in Offshore University Programs No access
1. 5 Structuring a Cross-border Partnership to Deliver Quality Teaching and Learning No access
2. 6 Quality Challenges for Transnational Higher Education No access
3. 7 Capacity Building and Academic Professionalism No access
4. 8 Constructs of Quality in Cross-border Higher Education Delivery No access
References No access Pages 131 - 138
Index No access Pages 139 - 142
About the Authors No access Pages 143 - 144