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Article Review

Dina Mattar

Trinity Western University

LDRS 591 Scholarly Inquiry

Hyne-Ju Huizenga, PhD

March 11, 2023

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Article Review

Hou, S. (2022). Internationalization of Chinese open universities. Asian Association of Open Universities

Journal, 17(1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/aaouj-11-2021-0127

Article Summary

           The article aims to illustrate the features of the internationalization of Chinese universities. The

universities in China would make international classes for both teachers and students, which allows the

researchers to measure their awareness of internationalism. They have created a questionnaire for 44 open

universities in China to collect data from the two. The findings were that they encourage globalization to

strengthen their build-up learning and be more aware of global education.

What?

       The success points discussed in this article:

 International cooperation and exchange could be achieved through cultural coordination and networking

between different countries to allow the sharing of the tuition and the culture between them.

 Internationalization by declaring the difference between the internationality of studying and

international activities in universities and what are the institution’s efforts to achieve and enhance the

learning process.

 Another point is internationalization for higher educational organizations misunderstandings include

offering English language or other international programs, receiving international students, or sending

students abroad, and establishing a partnership with overseas establishments by signing agreements.

So What? 

        The themes of global education differ according to many points of view of students and teachers.

According to tutors, the globalization of learning could be achieved through worldwide activities. They believe

short-term visits to study, training abroad, and attending cosmopolitan conferences will help to be more

internationalized. Foreign experts training either online or offline to enable them to be more aligned with

internationalism. Teach in transoceanic educational institutions or work in multiracial organizations of tuition.

These characteristics will help the teachers to be more internationalized with learning and can serve their

students better.
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But it differs for the students who see cultural exchange programs between their universities and others around

the world as the best manner to achieve. Participating in summer or winter camps and studying a single course

from transpacific universities. Developing degree courses and resources and constructing courses with overseas

institutions were preferred. The article is well written and has a good argument explaining that the globalization

of the tuition process is not easy because of many concerns, mainly the country's policy on learning ways.

Now What?

        My research topic is deeply interested in focusing on the features of internationalization of learning affairs.

The article enabled me to understand the features of internationalism could not be categorized into simple

points as it differs according to many views and concerns. Many universities around the world do not have an

international office and depend on the chief of university efforts in internationalization. According to this study,

a wrong feature of the internationalization of studying is that studying a foreign language is considered an

internationality of tuition. Learning task internationalization may have many attributes, listed according to

many surveys to fulfill the learning process for the students and make them more aware of the world around

them. 

References

Creswell, J. W., & Clark, V. L. (2017). Designing and conducting mixed methods research. SAGE Publications.