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  • What is the Next Big Thing in International Education?

    By: Daniel Obst on Wednesday, April 24, 2013

    Higher education institutions, educational organizations, and governments around the world are continuously looking for new ways to engage internationally and to keep their academic institutions relevant and competitive. Funding organizations and governments are investing substantial resources in international education, and are seeking to identify new areas to support.

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  • Guaranteeing Global Opportunities

    By: IIE on Monday, April 15, 2013

    Guest blogger Susquehanna University Provost Carl Moses writes about the school's award-winning Global Opportunities program:

    As I child, I was fortunate enough to have opportunities to travel with my family and explore different parts of the United States. I marveled at the expanse of the Grand Canyon, the bustle of New York City, the quaintness of a New England fishing village, the peacefulness of an ocean sunrise. Those experiences, contrasting in many ways with my southern rural surroundings, opened my eyes and gave me an appreciation of the diversity of the American culture and its people, as well as ways we connect with each other across that diversity.

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  • Pitt Community College’s Award-Winning Experience in Internationalization

    By: IIE on Monday, March 25, 2013

    Pitt Community College in Greenville, North Carolina was one of the recipients of IIE’s Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education at IIE’s Best Practices Conference last week. Pitt was honored for its International Education Travel Scholarship, which provides full funding for participation in a Pitt Community College Abroad-sanctioned program and seeks to eliminate financial barriers for students and faculty recipients.

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  • The Power of Network Analysis in Evaluation: It’s Not Just About Facebook!

    By: Mirka Tvaruzkova on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

    Have you thought about the importance of your networks, both personal and professional?  How they shape your career and everyday life? Social network analysis (SNA) is a tool used in modern sociology to identify the links between individuals in various social systems.  You can also use it in monitoring and evaluation in order to probe deeper into the power of the social network and how it can be used to measure program outcomes and impact.

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  • Exploring Opportunities for Women in Information and Communication Technologies

    By: Heather Ramsey on Thursday, January 31, 2013

    Earlier this month I joined more than 75 thought leaders from 20 countries working in civil society, academia, government, the private sector, and the UN who convened at IIE in Washington, DC, for the first international Working Forum on Women, Information and Communication Technologies and Development (WICTAD), co-hosted by the Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues and UN Women.

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  • A MOOC Article a Day: Three Themes To Watch

    By: Raisa Belyavina on Tuesday, January 22, 2013

    There’s one phenomenon growing even faster than MOOCs: the news coverage around MOOCs. Buzz about MOOCs—Massive Open Online Courses—has generated some interesting practical and philosophical questions in higher education.

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  • Alumni Tracking: Challenges and Considerations of Designing an Innovative Study

    By: Mirka Tvaruzkova on Tuesday, December 4, 2012

    Earlier this year IIE's Center for Academic Mobility Research (CAMR) hosted a roundtable on program evaluation and impact assessment. We brought together practitioners and researchers from various fields of study to discuss ways to measure impact of international fellowship programs. I was pleased to greet participants from the Ford Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, Social Science Research Council, German Academic Exchange Service, and others at the event held in IIE’s New York office.

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  • The U.S. and Australia: Learning From Each Other

    By: Patricia Chow on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

    The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia are the three primary English-speaking destinations of international students worldwide. Among the three, Australia has the most centralized, proactive international education policies and, arguably, the most highly developed international student data collection system in the world.

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  • Making German Institutions Even More International Student Friendly

    By: Raisa Belyavina on Monday, September 17, 2012

    Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of participating in a study tour sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to learn about the German higher education landscape. It was a particularly exciting time to visit the country. The European soccer championship was underway, and German universities were awaiting the announcement of the results of the second phase of the Excellence Initiative.

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  • The G7 of Open Doors

    By: Patricia Chow on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

    Did you know? Throughout the 62 year history of Open Doors, only seven places have been the #1 place of origin of international students.

    Canada, our northern neighbor, held the title for the first 23 years of the report (1949-1971), the most of any place of origin. These days, over 27,000 Canadians cross the border to pursue higher education in the United States. That is more than the 25,464 total international students from all places of origin that were studying in the United States in 1949, the first year of the Open Doors survey.

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