Date and time: Monday 28 February 2022, 10:00 – 11:30 (UTC -4, Caracas)

Format: Zoom webinar.

Open to all; prior registration is required.

https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Oc4O7S_UTWWh4m-ptqqHxA

Languages: English/Spanish/International sign language, with simultaneous interpretation

This webinar is being organized to launch a major new UNESCO IESALC report on the future of student mobility. The report lays out how the incredible creativity and innovation that has been shown in higher education during the pandemic to ensure students can continue to benefit from cross-cultural exchange using technology could be harnessed and further developed so that student mobility becomes possible not only physically but through virtual modalities.

The report being launched is informed by 14 case studies of virtual student mobility activities that have been implemented by 73 higher education institutions and higher education alliances across 38 countries in all world regions. Based on the case studies, the report offers a series of recommendations for incorporating virtual student mobility as an additional form of student mobility that can play a critical role in reshaping higher education internationalization in the post-pandemic landscape. 

This series of practical recommendations is targeted at the different groups for whom virtual student mobility should be an important consideration: students; those who develop and implement virtual student mobility (e.g., faculty members, International Office staff); decision-makers (e.g., HEI leaders, HE alliances, governments); and funders (e.g., governments, NGOs).