Internationalisation

Universities all over the world are increasingly entering into strategic partnerships to conduct joint degree programmes. In addition, major changes are currently being made in teaching activities on a global scale owing to the availability of new media. A lot of universities now use new technology to provide net-based teaching which students can use for autonomous study, for instance Open Educational Resources (OER).

This means that a new competitive situation is arising on the global education market, and at the Faculty of Arts we need to prepare ourselves for this change and ensure that we gain the best possible position from which to meet the future. In particular, we need to find out how the degree programmes conducted by the faculty can be made more accessible to the world around us.

The EDU-IT strategy relates to the faculty’s general and education strategy by:

• Strengthening the internationalisation of our degree programmes as well as incoming and outgoing student mobility
• Strengthening opportunities for international educational cooperation

In more specific terms, the faculty will:

1. Create open and accessible degree programmes

EDU-IT will help to make the faculty’s degree programmes more accessible to the world around us with a view to

• Attracting the best national and international students, including focusing on how teaching in inter-cultural learning environments can be developed
• Communicating and sharing knowledge, including interaction between teachers and students
• Entering into dialogue with the world around us, including employers

2. Develop our range of online degree programmes and courses

The faculty will develop models for learning-related degree programmes and courses which are accessible online (preferably in national and international partnerships). The development of models must be carried out with a view to ensuring that the faculty can offer international degree programmes and courses that are accessible online. This will contribute to the internationalisation of the faculty, preferably in cooperation with partner universities. The programmes and courses on offer will be based on subject considerations and educational policy.