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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/international-education-and-ic
 t-during-and-post-covid-19-japans-experiences-and-perspectives/
SUMMARY:International Education and ICT During and Post-COVID-19: Japan's E
 xperiences and Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\
 n\nUniversities are often said to be organizations that do not change easi
 ly (change-averse or status-quo organizations). Amid the COVID-19 pandemic
 \, many Japanese universities took a sit-and-wait attitude although the pa
 ndemic was both a crisis and an opportunity for universities to change. Ho
 wever\, several universities were oriented toward innovative international
  educational exchange using ICT and implemented many new programs. This pa
 per analyzes the good practices of such universities based on data from in
 terviews and public documents to discover what made them different from mo
 st other Japanese universities and who and what roles they played in unive
 rsity leadership\, management\, and governance. Moreover\, based on this a
 nalysis\, expected changes and new trends in international education in th
 e future are explored.\n\nUnfortunately\, ICT-based international educatio
 n\, such as virtual exchange and mobility\, is often regarded as an emerge
 ncy response to the COVID-19 pandemic\, and these acquired online internat
 ional learning methods are fading away after physical student mobility res
 umes on a larger scale. It is as if universities are abandoning the newly 
 developed modality (foundation) of international education and are returni
 ng to the familiar old normal. Thus\, this presentation also discusses why
  universities are so reluctant to transformational change despite the stro
 ng need for change in universities and their education.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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