Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration
In November 2019, scholars and practitioners from ten higher education institutions celebrated the launch of the iKudu project. This project, co-funded by Erasmus+[1], focuses on capacity development for curriculum transformation through internationalisation and development of Collaborative Online...
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| author | Lynette Jacobs Katherine Wimpenny Lize-Marie Mitchell Cornelius Hagenmeier Jos Beelen Merle Hodges Varkey George Alun DeWinter Chevon Slambee Segun Obadire Alessandra Viviani Lavern Samuels Leolyn Jackson Reinout Klamer Noreen Adam |
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In November 2019, scholars and practitioners from ten higher education institutions celebrated the launch of the iKudu project. This project, co-funded by Erasmus+[1], focuses on capacity development for curriculum transformation through internationalisation and development of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) virtual exchange. Detailed plans for 2020 were discussed including a series of site visits and face-to-face training. However, the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the plans in ways that could not have been foreseen and new ways of thinking and doing came to the fore. Writing from an insider perspective as project partners, in this paper we draw from appreciative inquiry, using a metaphor of a mosaic as our identity, to first provide the background on the iKudu project before sharing the impact of the pandemic on the project’s adapted approach. We then discuss how alongside the focus of iKudu in the delivery of an internationalised and transformed curriculum using COIL, we have, by our very approach as project partners, adopted the principles of COIL exchange. A positive impact of the pandemic was that COIL offered a consciousness raising activity, which we suggest could be used more broadly in order to help academics think about international research practice partnerships, and, as in our situation, how internationalised and decolonised curriculum practices might be approached.
[1] KA2 Erasmus+ Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices (capacity building in the field of Higher Education)
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| spelling | doaj.art-d105570c1000471b80ef10cb2f8f90ec2024-03-11T23:05:50ZengUniversity of the Free StatePerspectives in Education0258-22362519-593X2021-03-01391Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaborationLynette Jacobs0Katherine Wimpenny1Lize-Marie Mitchell2Cornelius Hagenmeier3Jos Beelen4Merle Hodges5Varkey George6Alun DeWinter7Chevon Slambee8Segun Obadire9Alessandra Viviani10Lavern Samuels11Leolyn Jackson12Reinout Klamer13Noreen Adam14University of the Free State, South AfricaCoventry University, United KingdomUniversity of Limpopo, South AfricaUniversity of the Free State, South AfricaThe Hague University of Applied Sciences, NetherlandsUniversity of the Free State, South AfricaUniversity of the Free State, South AfricaCoventry University, United KingdomUniversity of the Free State, South AfricaUniversity of Venda, South AfricaSiena University, ItalyDurban University of Technology, South AfricaCentral University of Technology, South AfricaThe Hague University of Applied Sciences, NetherlandsUniversity of the Free State, South Africa In November 2019, scholars and practitioners from ten higher education institutions celebrated the launch of the iKudu project. This project, co-funded by Erasmus+[1], focuses on capacity development for curriculum transformation through internationalisation and development of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) virtual exchange. Detailed plans for 2020 were discussed including a series of site visits and face-to-face training. However, the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the plans in ways that could not have been foreseen and new ways of thinking and doing came to the fore. Writing from an insider perspective as project partners, in this paper we draw from appreciative inquiry, using a metaphor of a mosaic as our identity, to first provide the background on the iKudu project before sharing the impact of the pandemic on the project’s adapted approach. We then discuss how alongside the focus of iKudu in the delivery of an internationalised and transformed curriculum using COIL, we have, by our very approach as project partners, adopted the principles of COIL exchange. A positive impact of the pandemic was that COIL offered a consciousness raising activity, which we suggest could be used more broadly in order to help academics think about international research practice partnerships, and, as in our situation, how internationalised and decolonised curriculum practices might be approached. [1] KA2 Erasmus+ Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices (capacity building in the field of Higher Education) http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/pie/article/view/4792COVID-19Internationalisation of higher educationDecolonisationCOILVirtual exchangeErasmus |
| spellingShingle | Lynette Jacobs Katherine Wimpenny Lize-Marie Mitchell Cornelius Hagenmeier Jos Beelen Merle Hodges Varkey George Alun DeWinter Chevon Slambee Segun Obadire Alessandra Viviani Lavern Samuels Leolyn Jackson Reinout Klamer Noreen Adam Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration Perspectives in Education COVID-19 Internationalisation of higher education Decolonisation COIL Virtual exchange Erasmus |
| title | Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration |
| title_full | Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration |
| title_fullStr | Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration |
| title_short | Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration |
| title_sort | adapting a capacity development in higher education project doing being and becoming virtual collaboration |
| topic | COVID-19 Internationalisation of higher education Decolonisation COIL Virtual exchange Erasmus |
| url | http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/pie/article/view/4792 |
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