Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education

Program coordinators and unit convenors involved in transnational education (TNE) represent a distributed group of leaders who often take on TNE coordination roles that can be challenging in cross-cultural settings. In their roles they are involved with colleagues from offshore branch campuses or pa...

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Main Author: Giridharan, Beena
Other Authors: Observatory of Borderless Higher Education
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Observatory of Borderless Higher Education 2012
Online Access:http://www.obhe.ac.uk/conferences/2012_global_forum_kuala_lumpur/2012gf_abstracts/s5b_abstract_beena_giridharan
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description Program coordinators and unit convenors involved in transnational education (TNE) represent a distributed group of leaders who often take on TNE coordination roles that can be challenging in cross-cultural settings. In their roles they are involved with colleagues from offshore branch campuses or partner institutions in the curriculum, delivery, and assessment and moderation of programmes. Both parties are concerned with achieving the course learning outcomes of the course while negotiating cultural and social contexts of learning in different campuses and countries. Therefore, the issue of recognition and reward for academics in TNE roles at home campuses and branch campuses is integral to the pedagogical and managerial success of the courses offered. This panel presentation highlights the broad outcomes and recommendations from an Australian Learning and Teaching ( ALTC) funded project entitled “Learning Without Borders: Linking Development of transnational leadership roles to international and cross-cultural teaching excellence” undertaken by a project team from two Australian universities with a branch campus each in Sarawak, Malaysia. TNE is defined in this Learning Without Borders project as an arrangement for provision of higher education where students in one country acquire an award which has been issued by a higher education institution based in another country.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-261572017-01-30T12:52:02Z Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education Giridharan, Beena Observatory of Borderless Higher Education Program coordinators and unit convenors involved in transnational education (TNE) represent a distributed group of leaders who often take on TNE coordination roles that can be challenging in cross-cultural settings. In their roles they are involved with colleagues from offshore branch campuses or partner institutions in the curriculum, delivery, and assessment and moderation of programmes. Both parties are concerned with achieving the course learning outcomes of the course while negotiating cultural and social contexts of learning in different campuses and countries. Therefore, the issue of recognition and reward for academics in TNE roles at home campuses and branch campuses is integral to the pedagogical and managerial success of the courses offered. This panel presentation highlights the broad outcomes and recommendations from an Australian Learning and Teaching ( ALTC) funded project entitled “Learning Without Borders: Linking Development of transnational leadership roles to international and cross-cultural teaching excellence” undertaken by a project team from two Australian universities with a branch campus each in Sarawak, Malaysia. TNE is defined in this Learning Without Borders project as an arrangement for provision of higher education where students in one country acquire an award which has been issued by a higher education institution based in another country. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26157 http://www.obhe.ac.uk/conferences/2012_global_forum_kuala_lumpur/2012gf_abstracts/s5b_abstract_beena_giridharan Observatory of Borderless Higher Education fulltext
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Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education
title Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education
title_full Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education
title_fullStr Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education
title_full_unstemmed Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education
title_short Recognising and Rewarding Leadership Roles in Transnational Education
title_sort recognising and rewarding leadership roles in transnational education
url http://www.obhe.ac.uk/conferences/2012_global_forum_kuala_lumpur/2012gf_abstracts/s5b_abstract_beena_giridharan
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