Internationalization of Curriculum in Higher Education in New Normal Japan: Strategy, Pedagogy and Practice

这个研究项目一直在按计划进行。莱拉·拉贾伊博士继续作为我的研究合作者和我一起工作。我们一起对8所不同的日本大学中参与在线合作国际学习（COIL）项目的教育工作者进行了另外12次采访，这些大学由日本政府的大学间交流项目资助。这项研究的结果表明，不同的参与者既支持也阻碍了COIL作为课程国际化（IoC）的一种形式，并且COIL本身在许多情况下作为一种机制，在机构和个人层面上更广泛地塑造IoC，超出了各自COIL项目的范围。我们认为，如果有足够的机构支持和教师的支持，COIL提供了一种可行的方法，可以为日本大学的包容性和合作性国际化课程做出贡献。在这项研究的基础上，我们又发表了两篇论文，一篇是由英国全球高等教育中心发表的白皮书，另一篇已提交给一家同行评议期刊。我们打算在即将举行的日本比较教育学会年会上展示这些发现，并寻找机会在国际上展示这些发现。

The research project has been progressing according to schedule. Dr. Leyla Radjai has continued to work with me as a research collaborator. Together we have conducted an additional 12 interviews with educators involved in collaborative online international learning (COIL) programs at 8 different Japanese universities funded through the Japanese government's Inter-University Exchange Project. Findings from this research revealed that various actors both enabled and blocked COIL as a form of internationalization of curricula (IoC), and that COIL itself served in many contexts as a mechanism that shaped IoC at institutional and personal levels more broadly, beyond the confines of the respective COIL programs. We argue that COIL offers a viable means to contribute to an inclusive and collaborative internationalized curriculum in Japanese universities, given adequate institutional support and faculty buy-in. Based on this research we have produced two more papers, one a white paper published by the Centre for Global Higher Education in the UK, and another which has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. We intend to present these findings at the upcoming annual conference for the Japan Comparative Education Society and find opportunities to present this internationally.