Think global, act local: Using the internet to facilitate transformative learning in regional universities
Ann-Marie Priest
Division of Teaching and Learning Services, Central Queensland University, Australia
PP: 14 - 24
Abstract
The recent increase in the number of international students in the Australian higher education system has dramatically affected the ways in which regional universities understand their identity and mission.
No longer focused primarily on their local regional communities, such institutions are now involved in negotiating the problematic relationships between, and the multiple identities of, the global and the local in their classrooms, both physical and virtual.
This paper identifies ways in which regional universities can use online learning as a tool for transformation of all their students, wherever they are located, and, by extension, of their own regional, national and international communities.
Keywords
transformative learning, regional university, online learning, international education
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