Digital Innovation for International Education
Kiron Annual Meetup – 5 September 2019
Digital Innovation for International Education
How digitalization and internationalization improve academic opportunities
International education is a valuable asset to our globalized world. By promoting student mobility and institutional cooperation, international education contributes to inter-connected and sustainable realities. Digital innovations can play a central role here to adapt study offers to heterogeneous student needs and develop scalable solutions which can help a growing number of students access and succeed in higher education.
At Kiron Annual Meetup 2019, we explored the benefits and challenges of internationalization of higher education through digital innovations. Together, we wanted to understand the impact of digitalization and international academic networks on integrating new and international student groups. In four thematic workshops, we discussed best practices.
Please find the workshop slides here:
Workshop I – MOBILITY & PREPARATION
Open DC – Online Coaching for Internationals
by Karoline von Köckritz, Department Coordinator Consulting & Support, CeDis, Freie Universität Berlin
by Anette Stumptner, E-learning& E-Examinations, CeDis, Freie Universität Berlin
Workshop II – FLEXIBILITY of E-LEARNING CONTENT
by Stefanie Ollenburg, Researcher and beFORE Project coordinator, Freie Universität Berlin
Workshop III – STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Sharing and building successful partnerships with purpose
by Andreas Wittke, Chief Digital Officer at Institut für Lerndienstleistungen, University of Applied Sciences Lübeck and co-initiator of DigiCerts
Workshop IV – POLICY MAKING
Linking digital innovation and internationalization in higher education strategies
by Florian Rampelt, Deputy Managing Director of Hochschulforum Digitalisierung at Stifterverband
International Student Journey to Germany – Current Challenges
by Simon Morris-Lange, Deputy Head of the SVR’s Research Unit, The Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration
This event was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the project IMPact Digital.
IMPactDigital – internationalization of universities: innovative measures to personalise university entry through digitalisation – is a BMBF-funded project implemented by the project partners Kiron Open Higher Education, RWTH Aachen University, University of Applied Sciences Lübeck and g.a.s.t. The project works on improving academic opportunities for international students through digital study preparation.
