The Importance of Globalization in Higher Education
The Importance of Globalization in Higher Education
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高等教育全球化的重要性
DOI：
10.5772/17972
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
S. Hundley
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作者：
P. Fox;S. Hundley
全球化是指全世界人民和企业的相互联系，最终导致全球文化，政治和经济一体化。它是移动和与世界各地的其他人轻松沟通的能力，以便在国际上开展业务。全球化这个词相对较新，是在20世纪70年代末创造的。飞机、电话和互联网只是全球化传播的三项发明。由于世界各地高科技行业的需求增加，商业和工业在全球范围内有巨大的利润潜力。因此，在当今世界，全球化是高等教育学生理解和欣赏的一个重要概念，因为商业和工业需要雇用能够与其他国家和文化的人一起工作的人，如果需要的话，他们可以独立地在国际上旅行，以促进他们的业务或行业。此外，世界面临着全球性的挑战，需要跨学科小组来解决这些挑战;为地球上的每个人提供清洁水，并使清洁的可再生能源负担得起，仅举几例。这些全球性挑战需要通过在全球范围内跨学科、机构和其他实体机构收集和分享知识来解决。建立全球有效的有意义的关系本身就具有挑战性。在本章中，我们将探讨全球性挑战、国际合作团队的组成、高等教育全球化教学的重要性、如何最好地教授全球化，并讨论这一领域的最佳实践。
Globalization is about the interconnectedness of people and businesses across the world that eventually leads to global cultural, political and economic integration. It is the ability to move and communicate easily with others all over the world in order to conduct business internationally. The word, globalization, is relatively new, coined in the late 1970’s. The airplane, the telephone, and the Internet are just three inventions, which are attributable to the spread of globalization. Due to the increased demand in the high tech industry around the world, business and industry have potential for huge profits working globally. So in today’s world, globalization is an important concept for students in higher education to understand and appreciate because of the demand in business and industry to hire people who can work with people of other nations and cultures and if need be can travel independently internationally to promote their business or industry. In addition, the world faces global challenges that will take interdisciplinary groups to solve these challenges; providing access to clean water for everyone on this planet and making clean renewable energy affordable just to name a few. These global challenges will need to be solved through the gathering and sharing of knowledge across disciplines, institutions, and other entities institutions on a global scale. Creating meaningful relationships that work globally is in itself challenging. In this chapter, we will look at global challenges, the makeup of model collaborative international teams; the importance of teaching globalization in higher education, how to best teach globalization, and discuss best practices in this area.