Programme for International Student Assessment

For decades’ distance learning, has provided an optimal means of delivering information to students. Simonson (2012) writes that this has been as far back as the early 1930s through the International Council for Correspondence Education (ICCE) (now renamed International Council for Distance Education) which had worked together to establish strong and effective learning over radios. Now in 2016 they communicate through electronic newsletters and online conferences across the world in the blink of…

First of all, we know that not everyone get the opportunity to go study in a university, and those who study in America universities somehow have the same life experiences or lifestyle. So when an international students enters to this new stage of life, they become very afraid because they realize that they are different from the rest of the people around them. The first tendency will be to try to fit in which will be to completely copy the new culture lifestyle…

education system. For realizing the difficulty of international students, the experiences may help the students cross the native and non-native gap easier. I am also an international student in American college, so I am interested in relevant articles. As for me, I concur with Leong’s (2015) belief that environmental factors influence international students than individual factors. Following, I will discuss three aspects: relationship between faculty and students, academic resources, and…

I am an international student and have studied in the states for more than three years. I found that America is a diversity place where are having different kinds of people. I have experienced in race, gender and ability discrimination in college, so I have particular show solicitude for these kinds of situation in the classroom. I hope my opinion can raise the consciousness of a new instructor at Cal about things he/she should be aware of when coming into a classroom. In my opinion, I think…

books that have made me have a better appreciation and respect for the work that goes into facility management and how campuses lay out strategic campus plans to ensure that costs are contained, but to also ensure that campuses look great to attract students, but to also remember that there are infrastructures that need to be in place to also preserve the campuses, but also modernized them based on the goals and mission of a university. I agree that a well-functioning campus is the result of a…

2012). Internationalization of curriculum is defined as “a curriculum with an international orientation in content and/or form, aimed at preparing students for performing (professionally/ socially) in an international and multicultural context and designed for the domestic and/or foreign students ( Deardorff, et al. 2012). The internationalization of the curriculum is a result to the globalization with the “the South”. The internationalization…

Perspectives To the everyday adult, college students are easy to come off as lazy, self-indulgent, disrespectful- what anyone would say of a young adult who lives for the party and gives less than their best efforts in school. On the contrary, to the everyday college student, this narrow-minded adult would be very wrong. It is not until Rebecca Nathans works in her book My Freshman Year that we have the adult challenging the prejudiced views non-students have on these young adults. Through her…

Professors and students in colleges and universities use writing to convey their ideas to readers. Nowadays, with the information and technological progress, people also use writing as a tool for communication in the workplace. It is used as a formal channel of communication. In the view of the importance of writing in academic life, according to Central Michigan University’s Writing Center website, the Writing Center was established in 1978 to support basic entry level students’…

Empathy with students and the struggles they may experience in specific units of study and/or their transition to university study As a first year student the daunting experience of transitioning from high school to university is fresh in my mind. Being one of only two students to select Sydney University from my high school I can easily recall the vortex of mixed emotions I felt during O’Week. Whilst I was committed and ready for a paradigm shift, I was simultaneously dreading the uncertainty…

With the development of society and technology, more and more students around the world are able to study abroad. As a result, the students who come from different countries can bring different cultures together and then the educational institutions should take advantage of them. But there are different cultures which can bring some mistakes or problems to education, and they can’t fix these problems by themselves. So that it can be a good problem for us to talk about. The cultural diversity…