Dorothy Kelly Vicerrector for International Relations and Development Cooperation

1. Discussion Group 2:Increasing the quality of education programmes by means of faculty staff with vast international experience &/or from abroad Dorothy Kelly Vicerrector for International Relations and Development Cooperation University of Granada Member of Spanish BET Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

2. Structure Prior issues Definitions & data Brief case studies Impact: intended positive impact and how to measure it Obstacles Discussion Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

3. Prior issues Increasing the quality of education programmes by means of faculty staff with vast international experience &/or from abroad Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

4. Definitions & data • Indicators > quality of teaching in general, proxies • International ≠ foreign (nationality, immigration, EU…) • Full-time tenured staff / temporary mobility • Length of stay > significant? • Research ≠ teaching Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

5. Brief case studies Faculty of Law UGR Diploma in Law of a European Country (additional to first cycle degree) • Languages • Erasmus study period • Seminar on Law of a European country (taught by staff from abroad) Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

6. Brief case studies Impact • Internationalization at Home • Promotion of mobility • Promotion of language competence • Internationalizes the curriculum • Exchange of knowedge and best practice among staff • Potential research cooperation (and viceversa Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

7. Brief case studies Dual degree programmes • Stetson University College of Law (Florida) • University of Ferrara (Italy) • University of Bayreuth (Germany) • University of Paris (France) Participation of staff from partner universities in teaching on an exchange basis with intended impact on: • student guidance • exchange of best practice • curricular content • methodology for T&L, assessment… • language issues Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

8. Brief case studies Department of Translation and Interpreting UGR • multilingual Department teaching 9 different languages • staff of 12 nationalities • 63 members of staff, of whom 25 of foreign origin, 6 local Spaniards with full foreign degrees, 20 local Spaniards with substantial experience abroad Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

9. Brief case studies Impact (?) • High level of implication in mobility programmes for staff and students • Multiple degree programme with 9 European partners since 1989 • Teaching and learning: wide variety of approaches, mostly student centred, competence-based, Bologna avant la lettre • Quality: leads the informal ranking of Spanish T&I programmes (chicken and egg?); only public Spanish university in prestigious international network CIUTI • Integration of foreign students: Temcu project > staff with international experience more open to multicultural classroom Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

10. Impact: intended positive impact and how to measure it 5 strategic uses of impact of internationalization (IMPI) • Enchance quality of education (teaching and learning) • Enhance quality of research • Prepare students effectively for life and work in an intercultural and globalizing world • Enhance international reputation and visibility • Service to society and community social engagement Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

11. Impact: intended positive impact and how to measure it Quality of education programmes (teaching and learning): • Notoriously difficult to measure • Use of proxies, amongst which internationalization (again chicken and egg?) • User satisfaction • Actual learning outcomes: AHELO, specific studies (e.g. intercultural competence) Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

12. Obstacles Long-term staff • National, regional, local legislation and regulations on staff recruitment, promotion and engagement • National, regional and local practice and culture regarding staff recruitment, promotion and engagement • … Temporary staff mobility • Financing of short term or temporary mobility • Conditions for participation in short term or temporary mobility: leave of absence, double work load, minimum periods, finance… • Recognition of participation in evaluation, work load calculation • Family situations • Language competence • … Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011

13. Over to you! Higher Education Reform Project: Enhancing Quality Through InternationalisationSeminar for Bologna and HE Reform Experts, Lisbon, October 2011