Internationalization at home: Collaborations to build confidence
| Dr. Naga Swetha Pasupuleti - 01 Apr 2023

In today’s globalized society, networks, and international affiliations are becoming especially vital in developing international collaboration and creating confidence and understanding among nations, with universities and colleges all over the world collaborating and exchanging information and ideas. This has resulted in the establishment of an increasing number of networks and international groups in higher education, to encourage cooperation and collaboration among institutions and individuals. As a result, any Indian higher education institutions are becoming more committed to broadening their global reach as possibilities to attract overseas students, professors, and financing growth.
 “Internationalization at home” has become a requirement as the variety of the university grows and students go for postsecondary learning overseas. (Internationalization at home refers to actions on the home institutions that encourage the internationalization of university education, such as bringing international students and overseas distinguished guests.) Some research indicates that India is one of the countries with the largest private higher education systems. India has been designated as the world’s largest one among these, with private higher education and enrollees close to 64.3%.
 Internationalization refers to all forms of cross-border education, including student, teacher, and scholar mobility, as well as programs, courses, curricula, and initiatives. Internationalization at Home contains indirect references to such programs and is not exclusive to it. All these approaches being taken forward in that lane are aimed at integrating international course content into a common curriculum while fostering teacher and student participation in a heterogeneous learning environment that leads to interculturality. It promotes the concept that any student, not just those participating in international mobility programs, may benefit from having a global learning opportunity directly on their college campus without having to move abroad if they cannot afford to do so. In addition to the structured learning received from the shared program material, students may benefit from the general experience of collaborating with classmates from different institutions.
 The capacity to aggregate resources and knowledge is one of the most essential advantages of multinational institutions across the world. Working together, member nations can do far more than they could alone. International higher education associations are organizations that connect institutions, researchers, and educators from all over the globe to address specific challenges such as enhancing scientific research, encouraging
 sustainable development, or increasing access to higher education. These organizations provide a venue for members to share resources and skills, as well as collaborate on common goals. The International Association of Universities (IAU), for example, strives to promote university education as an essential human right and to foster university development worldwide.
 Though internationalization at home must be viewed from the perspective of the organizations involved and the academic outcomes, in the end, the students are the ones who will benefit from it. Internationalization at home ensures that all students, including those who have never had mobility experiences, have their say and consider their perspective in conceptualizing the idea. The intentional focus on all learners in the course of study distinguishes internationalization at home. Internationalization at Home is supplied in addition to the official, assessed curriculum through the informal curriculum, which are non-assessed components of the student experience that are still provided by or affiliated with the institution.
 There are several strategies proposed to put the internationalization process into practice, some of which include: providing all students with diverse perspectives within their course of study, regardless of whether they spend time abroad so that they can develop a global citizen attitude even if they are not involved in any mobility programs; Beginning to develop international and multicultural views through internationalized learning outcomes in the formal curriculum; supports informal co-curriculum activities across the institution. Making intentional use of cultural diversity in the classroom for inclusive learning, teaching, and assessment practice; Involves all employees, not just academics and foreign officers, in creating an ideal learning environment and achieving measurable learning results; engaging in virtual mobility through online working with partner universities; Fostering purposeful engagement with international students.
 One of the most important advantages of networking and multilateral institutions in postsecondary learning is the capacity to bring professionals from all over the world together to work on similar goals. For example, a network of institutions focusing on curriculum enrichment and improvements in the evaluation and educational quality may bring together specialists from many fields to cooperate on initiatives targeted at encouraging relevant practices and studies in higher education. This partnership advances knowledge and comprehension in these areas and can lead to the creation of new programs, activities, and policies that benefit the larger higher education community.



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