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Teaching and Learning on the Move: Israeli and Global Higher Education Policies and Trends

Prof. Nitza Davidovitch

Ariel University, Ariel, Israel 40700

E-mail: d.nitza@ariel.ac.il
Tel: 972-3-9066103

Accepted August 04, 2015

Abstract

The twenty-first century has so far been marked by growing international alliances in academic teaching and learning. This trend toward internationalization is manifest in most higher education systems in the western world in a variety of ways. In this article we address several aspects of undergraduate students’ mobility, or more specifically, mobility of students unrelated to research contexts. In contrast to the past, when non-research degrees tended to have a local or national nature, academic mobility is currently required in many professional and more general undergraduate degrees. There is a massive flow of undergraduate students who study outside their home countries in a broad range of international study programs, and large numbers of academic faculty who teach overseas. Academic mobility has reached unprecedented levels, growing from close to 50,000 individuals worldwide in the 1950s to 5 million in the 2000s. The internationalization and convergence of knowledge affect universities and their staff everywhere. In this article we review current trends and policies that enable and promote such mobility in Europe, the United States, and Australia, and examine mobility in Israel. Finally we discuss the challenges and risks of undergraduate academic mobility.

Keywords: Foreign exchange programs, Globalization, Higher education, Internationalization, Israel, Mobility