Welcome to Internationalising the Curriculum (IoC)
Introduction
This four week course is designed for practising teachers in higher education to introduce you to the wide-ranging concept of an internationalised curriculum. The course will challenge your conception of an internationalised curriculum and offer the opportunity to explore curriculum, teaching and assessment strategies in terms of global perspectives, inter-cultural capabilities and responsible citizenship.
Your explorations will be contextualised within your institutional and disciplinary environments. By the end of the course you should be familiar with a range of resources and perspectives on Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC) and have thought through how best to utilise your efforts in this area according to your positioning in your institution.
This is a highly interactive course and to obtain full benefit from the course you are recommended to schedule around six to eight hours per week for at least three visits a week to the course site, reading and thinking time.
Course aims
The aim of this course is to introduce you to the concept of the Internationalised Curriculum for all students and to familiarise you with practical strategies and resources in the area.
Expected learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Explain the concept of the internationalised curriculum as a transformative curriculum
- Demonstrate a knowledge of a range of IoC strategies and the application of these for working with IoC in your own institution or on your own courses.
- Draw up an action plan for taking IoC forward either in your institution or in your discipline
- Engage with a global community of practitioners through online environments for learning, research and collaboration
- Apply the concept of the internationalised curriculum to the development of assessment strategies in your institution or in your discipline.
- Evaluate the course and your engagement with the internationalised curriculum on a “continuum of transformation”.
Course approach
This is a fully online course based around principles of constructivism and collaboration. Over the next four and a half weeks you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues from a number of tertiary institutions. We hope that you will welcome the opportunity to engage in sharing your experiences, insights and reflections with each other.
There are two tutors working on the course, offering some variety in approaches and styles. The tutors are experienced educational developers and skilled online tutors and will support you through this process of communicating online.
Engaging with the course
We expect each of you to play an active and participatory role in this course. We do understand the competing demands on your time and have designed the course so that you can have some flexibility around how you organise your time.
Each week you will be expected to work through some readings and activities, record your thoughts, share your work with others on the course, discuss your work and that of the other participants, analyse and summarise your findings.I do hope that you enjoy the course. I look forward to working with you.
Valerie Clifford
