The impact of Covid-19 on the Internationalization of Colombian Higher Education

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55777/rea.v13iEspecial.2246

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Higher Education, Quality, Internalization, Online Learning

Abstract

The COVID-19 caused the closure of universities and schools in countries around the world, which led to a rapid replacement of the way of executing training actions. The Caribbean Node of the Red Colombiana para la Internacionalización de la Educación Superiorcarried out a descriptive study, which sought to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the following axes of internationalization: international mobility, internationalization at home and international collaborations. 34 institutions participated in this survey-based study. It is evident that the physical mobility schemes are not operational, and have been replaced by virtual mobility and internationalization at home activities, such as webinars, courses, collaborative online learning, etc. Institutions have trained their staff in the use of technological tools for training actions. International collaborations based on physical mobility are weakening, while others have been strengthened in the framework of virtual mobility and internationalization at home actions, as well as active collaborations in the search for contributions in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. It is a challenge for the surveyed institutions to evaluate the results of the new actions mediated by virtuality.

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Author Biographies

Luisa Echeverria King, Dirección General del SENA

Luisa currently serves as an Internacionalization Advisor at SENA.  She studied Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Linguistics from the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) and Master of Arts in Teaching German as a Foreign Language from the Pedagogical University of Freiburg, Germany. She served as a German teacher at Universidad del Atlántico and later as an Internationalization Advisor at the International Office of this institution. Then, she held the position of Head of the International Office of the same university. After this, she served as an Internationalization Advisor at the Office for International Cooperation at the Colombian Ministry of Education. During her professional development as a linguist and as a specialist in the internationalization of higher education she has been a scholarship holder at several opportunities: DAAD scholarship for an academic exchange as part of her Masters in 2012, scholarship of the Pedagogical University of Freiburg in 2013 for the presentation of the linguistic project "Forms of treatment in different cultures" at the Voronesz State University, (Russia) and the scholarship for the course "Management of Internationalization" awarded by the DAAD in 2014 which has been finished in november 2015. MASHAV scholarship holder for the course "Pedagogies in the 21. century" (2016). In 2020, takes a Course on Science Diplomacy in India, thanks to a scholarship granted by the Indian government.

 

Tania Isabel Lafont Castillo, Politécnico Costa Atlántica

Professional in International Business from the University of the North with a double degree in International Business with mention in Management from L'École Superieure de Commerce et Management, Poitiers France. Student of the Master in International Education of the University of Guadalajara and Master in Commercial Management of Companies and Marketing of the Eude. She has been Director of International Relations of the Corporación Politécnico de la Costa Atlántica in Barranquilla for six years.

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2020-11-15

How to Cite

Echeverria King, L., & Lafont Castillo, T. I. (2020). The impact of Covid-19 on the Internationalization of Colombian Higher Education. Journal of Learning Styles, 13(Especial), 95–114. https://doi.org/10.55777/rea.v13iEspecial.2246

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Vol. 13 No. Especial (2020): Educational transformation and innovation during the COVID-19 crisis. Teaching and learning styles and models.

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THEMATIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ARTICLES

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